Originally Posted by Devotee

The biggest eye-opener I ever had was when I travelled to India on vacation many years ago.

Before then, I thought all Indians were poor, uneducated, starving, had loads of children, tolerated cows on every street corner.

I was unaware of their magnificent civilization lasting thousands of years,
their ethnic European roots, their commitment to democracy.

Vande Mataram

Australians are lazy people

Actually hang on .....

[its.like.that]

Originally Posted by Somalian Refugee

Polish girls can steal some hearts in Germany, that's for sure

Yeah... I know there was such a joke: "Go to Poland, you car is already there"

Q: Why do people go to Polish garage sales?
A: To get their stuff back.



Q: What do Polish people give their kids for Christmas?
A: Your son's toys.

[its.like.that]

Originally Posted by GlennMirnyi

No, it's because jungles appear mostly on tropical environments, and it's not the case in a great part of Brazil...

Isn't the Amazon the worlds biggest rainforest?

The stereotype isn't wrong after all.

And yes your government does cut down too many trees. It cuts down way more trees than Ginger's government. Your government is worse than Ginger's.

[scarecrows]

Originally Posted by its.like.that

Q: Why do people go to Polish garage sales?
A: To get their stuff back.



Q: What do Polish people give their kids for Christmas?
A: Your son's toys.

and I thought we were the only famous country in Europe for that

[Nathaliia]

Originally Posted by scarecrows

and I thought we were the only famous country in Europe for that

You are famous for stealing food from restaurants

England was famous for psychotic football fans, Germans were stealing bicycles from Dutch attics

[Corey Feldman]

I always thought Pepe le pew was french when i was little watching the cartoons.. but he was italian = lady killers, like pepe was.

all brazilians love to samba dance.
all aussies were like crocodile dundee
all english hated us.
all germans had deep and stern voices.
all arabs had beards.

[scarecrows]

Originally Posted by Somalian Refugee

You are famous for stealing food from restaurants

England was famous for psychotic football fans, Germans were stealing bicycles from Dutch attics

we're famous for stealing food everywhere

supermarkets are the fav place

[GlennMirnyi]

Originally Posted by its.like.that

Isn't the Amazon the worlds biggest rainforest?

The stereotype isn't wrong after all.

And yes your government does cut down too many trees. It cuts down way more trees than Ginger's government. Your government is worse than Ginger's.

Do you know the difference between forest and jungle?

Do you have any idea of the size Brazil is? Chile is closer than the Amazon from where I live.

[Sparko1030]

Originally Posted by GeorgeWHitler

The Finns sit in the sauna, don't talk and carry around the puukko (a local all purpose knife), drink litres of vodka every night, don't laugh and eat kalakukko.

My in-laws went camping last weekend and even had to make a sauna for that(and they were backpacking )! My mother-in-law is of all Finnish hertitage-she's never been to Finland but her father was first generation immigrant.

[oz_boz]

Stereotypes of Sweden:

1. It's cold here - partly true, not so much in the southern parts and of course the Gulf stream makes the country livable. No icebears of course, midnight sun (and 24h nights) in the northernmost parts.
2. All people are blond - true if you compare us to the rest of the world, but really blond people seem to be more common in Denmark
3. Swedish women are goodlooking and sluts - goodlooking very true, sluts not.
4. We are a socialist country - not true if you think socialist countries have one party systems, which we never had, democracy all the way. "The middle way" is a pretty famous, if a bit outdated system. We're turning more and more European thanks to EU entry and globalization, our present government is liberal ala US Democrats.
5. We have the highest suicide rate in the world - not true.
6. We make crappy music - well, depends on taste, but we are the third largest music exporting country after USA and UK, pretty good for a small country with 9 million people.
7. We are quiet and well-mannered and afraid of conflicts, with feelings bottled up - true.
8. We export a lot of porn - not true AFAIK. Reputation probably comes from a couple of "sexually explicit" movies in the fifties. Well they were with the standards of those days, they contained some nudity, naked breasts and such (ooh...).
9. We have crappy food - true to a certain extent, of course if you compare with Mediterranean countries it's bad, but no worse than German food and not as bad as stereotypical English food (intestines that is).
10. We drink Absolut - partly true but most people are middleclass and hence drink wine or beer, strong liqour is only for midsummer's eve, Easter and Christmas.
11. We use "Snus" (tobacco under the upper lip) - true, at least less than 20% of adults smoke.

I have found that a few stereotypes of Russian people are partly true, at least the following:

They have a strange sense of humour.
They drink a lot of vodka and loudly sing melancholic folk songs when they get drunk.
All their service workers are grumpy.
Their cars are crap.

[Nathaliia]

As a person who has been recently to Sweden, I should give my stupid impression:

Originally Posted by oz_boz

1. It's cold here - partly true, not so much in the southern parts and of course the Gulf stream makes the country livable. No icebears of course, midnight sun (and 24h nights) in the northernmost parts.

It was quite warm and it was already October... I know that in summer there can be even 30 C degrees

2. All people are blond - true if you compare us to the rest of the world, but really blond people seem to be more common in Denmark

Regarding the amount of Arabic heritage ones......

3. Swedish women are goodlooking and sluts - goodlooking very true, sluts not.

Many of them are good looking indeed, but it's not difficult to find a slut. Maybe you just weren't lucky enough mate.

4. We are a socialist country - not true if you think socialist countries have one party systems, which we never had, democracy all the way. "The middle way" is a pretty famous, if a bit outdated system. We're turning more and more European thanks to EU entry and globalization, our present government is liberal ala US Democrats.

Though I love how your legal system works with listening a lot to the child who had to be harmed by parents at any rate.

5. We have the highest suicide rate in the world - not true.

I thought it was around Tromso in Norway

6. We make crappy music - well, depends on taste, but we are the third largest music exporting country after USA and UK, pretty good for a small country with 9 million people.

I love rock/metal scene from Sweden including my fave band Katatonia, but face it, Britney Spears' first album is a Swedish thing

7. We are quiet and well-mannered and afraid of conflicts, with feelings bottled up - true.

Agree

8. We export a lot of porn - not true AFAIK. Reputation probably comes from a couple of "sexually explicit" movies in the fifties. Well they were with the standards of those days, they contained some nudity, naked breasts and such (ooh...).

I don't watch porn

9. We have crappy food - true to a certain extent, of course if you compare with Mediterranean countries it's bad, but no worse than German food and not as bad as stereotypical English food (intestines that is).

Some of the food just doesn't have taste. Comparison to German food makes sense. But the food served in good restaurants (or in "Borg Village" at Stockholm Open) is alright. Though I was surprised with the way you eat hot-dogs Without salads, only the sausage and ketchup .

10. We drink Absolut - partly true but most people are middleclass and hence drink wine or beer, strong liqour is only for midsummer's eve, Easter and Christmas.

Yeah, I've noticed how much wine was popular! But your national beer isn't very strong... 3%? It's like drinking a bitter juice. As for vodka, I prefer Polish

11. We use "Snus" (tobacco under the upper lip) - true, at least less than 20% of adults smoke.

True, I've almost not seen any smoking people.

[hammett]

Well I'm surprised GlennMirnyi hasn't stereotyped us yet

Good thread

[sharpeirob]

Originally Posted by its.like.that

Isn't the Amazon the worlds biggest rainforest?

The stereotype isn't wrong after all.

And yes your government does cut down too many trees. It cuts down way more trees than Ginger's government. Your government is worse than Ginger's.

We do not cut down trees you moroni

[Bagelicious]

Originally Posted by sharpeirob

Its commonly thought Zimbabweans are black.

OMG WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, EVERY SINGLE PERSON FROM AFRICA IS BLACK WITH ABSOLUTELY NO EXCEPTIONS EVER. Except for those that aren't.

Yes, and all Swedish people are blond in the extreme.

All Dutch people are extremely tall, wear clogs, live in windmills, and when they see a dyke leaking, they stick their finger in it to save the town from flooding.

Canadians are polite, farm-raised, flannel wearing, beer-drinking moose hunters and they say 'Eh (ay)', 'aboot' and 'thank you kindly' a lot. The only time they don't wear flannel is when they're dressed up in their 'Mountie' uniform.

The ones in the north live in igloos, go ice-fishing, and supply polar bears with Coca-cola for their late night dancing so that the bears can offer it to the penguins as a peace offering when they come to visit.

As for ze Fwench Canaydiens, zey want a separaayte countreee so no one is giv-eeng a sheet about zem.