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Laughing at National and Regional Stereotypes

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#1 ·
Since everyone generalises and stereotypes to a degree, it's just a question of who admits to it and who judges everything by these stereotypes. Yes, there are people who will fit it.

The more interesting ones are the regional ones within a country.

I wonder how will it take for people to take this thread seriously and no it should be taken too seriously. This thread might work or it might bomb.

Norwegians:

All Norwegians are blonde haired and blue eyed and yes that even includes the Sami population.

They ski to school or work, they sing when they speak and use ummmmmmm and errrrrrrrrrrrr a lot, have polar bears wandering down the main street, insular, live in the mountains and hunt everything that moves and are considered yokels by Danes and the Swedes.

Eat this horrible dish called lutefisk, haven't evolved from Vikings and don't have a sense of humour

Regional within Australia
Tasmanians are slow, the people have 2 heads from inbreeding and everyone is related to someone else and the fact that some people think they have to exchange currency, since it's different from Australia
 
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#171 ·
That's really unfortunate. Well there are all kinds of people in Switzerland and the farmers who have lived generations in the mountains have so so rarely seen foreigners and are extremely suspicious of them (they are suspicious even of the native Swiss who venture up into their meadows sometimes).

About your experience, well even though the Tamils are regarded so well ultimately some just view them as foreigners and so they are sometimes judged/lumped with all foreigners.
 
#176 ·
Well, few confuse the Serbs with Albanians... There was a lot of Albanians from Kosovo who came in Switzerland as refugees during the war... It took some time for them to be well integrated but now those who've stayed are integrated. In the 60's we had Italian immigrents, in the 70's Spanish's and more recently the ex-Yougoslavien. I don't see any problem with that. :shrug:
 
#175 ·
Swiss know the different ethnic groups, and yes there are many Kosovars in Switzerland. However, there are many Serbs as well. In the media, they often distinguish between Croat, Kosovar and Serb (and others). So no, I don't think it is a large scale mix up of not knowing who is who.

And yes, there are stereotypes about all of the immigrant groups. I guess this is true everywhere. In the US, there are stereotypes about immigrants from Africa, from Asia, from Latin America. These stereotypes are not always in a positive light.
 
#177 ·
One from Scrubs:
Q:What's the thing you should be aware of when you take out either A Black Girl or a White girl?
A: When the black girl asks whether her ass is too big you should answer "Hell yeah Baby" whereas for the white Chick you should tell her she looks pencil thin.
 
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