Wikipedia's Huge List Of Stereotypes

[Explode]

I found a huge list of stereotypes on Wikipedia.
I always find it funny to look up my own stereotypes to see how accurately they got it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Grue/Lis...nic_stereotypes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Grue/List_of_ethnic_stereotypes)

Comments?

By the way don't blame me for being offended. Read at your own risk.

[arby]

I love how theres nothing positive on there.

[CoLd BlooDed]

Sure there is.

British Columbians
-Half of them are Asian
-Are sports mad
-Everyone who works at the ski resorts are Australian
-tall
-will play just about any sports
-love marijuana
-skinny/fit
-very attractive
-used to say "eh?" at the end of every sentence but realized they were doing it so they now say "oh, yeah?" instead
-end every sentence with their voices going higher making every sentence sound like a question.
-still pronounce "out" as "oot" - this is how you can distinguish them in a crowd[/b]

Probably not half Asian, but damn if there aren't a lot of them. Sports mad, yeah... lots of Aussie ski resort instructors... love weed... I'd say the only thing that isn't true is the last three. I laughed at third to last point. Hilarious.

:D

[Vex Kitten]

Ontarians
friendly
love sports
of Scottish or German descent
very tall
dislike Quebecers

I am none of these.
This article is nothing but LIES!!

[Eldritch_of_Fire]

Americans (United States)
Affinity for firearms, "Gun-Toting"
Most powerful country
Never got over the war in Vietnam
Easy to make fun of
Hate their President
Highly ignorant of the world outside America, and to some extent of their own country outside their home state
Aggressive, Confrontational, Militaristic, has one of the most effective militaries in the world
Overweight
Obsessed by success and outward wealth: the American Dream
Love fast food
Obnoxious, especially as tourists and expatriots
Wasteful, Greedy
Adventurous, Courageous
Naive in the extreme
Rednecks
Love to kill
Affinity for size, "the bigger the better"
Racist
Mawkish/Syrupy TV shows
Loud in public
Hate the French
Don't like to learn foreign languages; think everyone should speak English
Zealous Christians
Willing to take over Canada, just to prove a point
Loves beer and steaks
Often referred to as "zionist infidels"
Interbreed with relatives
Obsessed with saying Muslims are terrorists
Have a fettish for English accents
Hate Canadians

...lol

[tyrantt23]

Haha... this is why I love being Brazillian:

* Love soccer
* The best soccer players in the world
* Have the best carnival and parties
* Tricksters
* Don't care shit
* Eat black beans with rice
* Love to dance and party, keep very late hours
* Are happier than the average
* Drink cachaça (pronounced as kah-shah-ssah), a really strong drink
* Incredibly good looking/sexy people
* Women are fashion models (Rio Grande do Sul)
* Men are professional fighters (brazillian jujutsu, capoeira)
* Sexually promiscuous, adulterous (Rio de Janeiro)
* Poorly run economy, rampant inflation
* Start having sex at a young age
* Sexy, attractive ("booty-jiggling")
* Everybody has guns or is really violent
* Women are easy (prostitution)
* Think that "gringos" (tourists) are rich and easy to trick
* Girls wear "tanga" and "eio-dental" (dental-floss), bikinis that show their bare "bundas" (buttocks)
* Hate getting confused with mexicans or other peoples from south american countries
* Hate when people think they speak spanish (as almost all countries in South America)
* Put unexistant vowels in the end of the words
* Are all well tanned
* Hate people from Argentina
* Say "Ah-ee" instead of "ouch" or something like that
* Women get a lot of plastic surgery[/b]
lol... most of it is so true too.

[nightshade]

Willing to take over Canada, just to prove a point[/b]LOL

Have a fettish for English accents[/b]And here I thought I was the only one.


Germans
All drink Lowenbrau or Becks - Yes I do.

admire tall stature, blue eyes, blond hair ("Aryan")
http://images.askmen.com/women/votes_350/pictures_350/bombshell_poker_girls/katarina_van_derham.jpg

spartan and humorless - This is SPAARTAAAAA (see? that was humour)
have the dirtiest porn (or a tie between the Japanese) - It can't be a tie between the Japanese, you just can't compare Japanese porn to anything else.
good beer, jolly when drinking beer
Industrious, precise, punctual
Prone to bouts of insanity
Militaristic, regimented
Cruel, brutal
Think they are alwase right - well that's just because I am
Unusually close same-sex relationships
Eat bunnies
Gave the world Naziism, then overcompensated and gave it environmentalism
Women have large breasts, home to many supermodels
Known for Nazi Past: Intolerance; Nazis; anti-Semitic
Build Fast and Expesnive Cars, freeways without speed limits
Love David Hasslehoff - why?!?!?
Have a bed wetting problem into their late twenties - NO!
Obsession with Cleanliness
Sexually frustrated
Cut in line
Women have "Turkish Guy" fantasy - Uhm What??
Boring

Good chocolate, "the land of candy"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d4/Land_of_Chocolate.JPG/200px-Land_of_Chocolate.JPG

Find <strike>Finnish people</strike> Swedish soccer fans irresistible
http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,645584,00.jpg http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c320/gahsoon/swedish_fan.jpg

Obsessed with schedules and being on time
Claim to hate Italians but alwase marry them
Fat children and love chocolate
Permanently wet from exposure to constant rainfall - Seriously, who writes this stuff?
Hate it when people mention WWII
Are secretly pleased about almost winning WWII

[tyrantt23]

Find <strike>Finnish people</strike> Swedish soccer fans irresistible
http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,645584,00.jpg http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c320/gahsoon/swedish_fan.jpg[/b]

Damn, now I do too... lol.

[In My Own World]

Southern Californians

Valley Girl, surfer, tech wizard, or movie star
Boast of economic superiority over other states
Superficial and shallow, obsessed with image
Supports technology advances
Has gone through several plastic surgeries
Spends hours in traffic
Health conscious
Tans alot
Sexy blond women
Constant highway chases
Good driver skills
Spend all day at the beach
Eat at fancy restaurants
Youth is internet savvy over other states
Have affinity for bold ideas and entrepreneurship
Fondness for the word "dude"
Find it hard to conceive of living some place else
Large Asian population

<_<

I don't see alot of Asians tho

[CryoDragoon]

Dutch

* Drink Heineken
* good beer, jolly when drinking beer
* attractive/sexy
* men are boring romantic partners
* blue/green eyes and blond(e) hair
* promiscuous, start having sex at a young age
* reputation of "anything goes" with legal cannabis and prostitution
* tolerant
* speak English better than British or Americans
* obsessed with cleanliness
* economic, will save money off everything possible
* wooden shoes, tulips, and windmills dominate perception of culture
* owned and operated the slave ships/trade between Africa and the Americas - guilty over historically ill gotten gains
* travel through Europe in mobile homes
* bad skiers
* very tall
* good businessmen; wealthy
* active pot smokers
* all Dutch people live in Amsterdam
* money-hungry


What... The... F*ck......................??????!?!?!?!

I mean... 1 or 2 of them are true (for the most part anyway, but the rest are just bullsh*t...

I mean: look at this one right? "speak English better than British or Americans"

that is just wrong... we, the dutch people, speak english better than ANYONE ELSE, WE INVENTED ENGLISH!!!!!


But, joking aside... What's with the pot in that article? I mean, sure we have not-so-strict rules about soft drugs... but that's where it ends, really...

And that's probably why I hate stereotypes...

[Marvo]

Originally posted by Danes
* Drink Carlsberg
* miserably parsimonious and stingy in business
* hypocritical about wealth (part of the so-called Jantelov)
* good beer, enjoy their beer
* happy go lucky, fun loving, pranksters
* sexy, attractive
* easily conquered by Nazis in WWII (despite Viking history)
* remarkably brave in helping Jews escape the Nazis
* fine sailors
* tolerant
* extremely racist
* still lots of Danish hippies
* reputation for free love
* people get naked in public parks
* fit & healthy people, but not known for athleticism
* Believe most Swedish men are weak
* Dependent on cradle to grave welfare state

Most of it is true, except for those underlined. Just because we don't take in as many people, as other countries do, doesn't mean we're all racists.
We don't have that many hippies left.
We don't get naked in parks. Only for taking sun then, and that's mostly by the beach. We don't have that many parks actually :s

[Ynot]

got to love the last one under "English"
now the French can call us "Le Gas 'ob"

[QwinsepiaSquared]

Americans (United States)
Rednecks[/b]

Ever hear of New Yorkers? :P

[NeAvO]

Drink Tetley's or Carling---Meh English and tea. I don't like tea to be honest, but a lot of people do. Carlings to weak and has a horrible taste.

unattractive: pale; frumpy; bad teeth ---I'm pale but I wouldn't say I have bad teeth.

Silly drunks but cold and phlegmatic when sober ---yeah we're stupid when drunk but who isn't

All the men are named Nigel and all the women are called Polly---WTF I've never met a nigel or Polly :wtf:

wet, cold, foggy environment ---Yeah thats true with the rain but not fog.

love beer/ale, especially jolly when drinking---Sort of true, I'd say more stupid when drunk though.

inbred royals/idiotic upper class ---You can't class us as upper class because of the stupid royal family.

never got over defeat in U.S. War of Independence; jokingly refer to the U.S. as "the colonies"---Ok whats a "the colonies" and whats the war of independance?

reputation as football hooligans---Although I don't care much for football/soccer there are a lot of hooligans out there.

despise the French, common expression is "The Wogs begin at Calais."---Never heard of that.

not interested in sex; sexually repressed---Haha.

Friendly, outgoing---Some of us are.

Gentlemen---Again not all of us.

[Vex Kitten]

Willing to take over Canada, just to prove a point[/b]

Bring it on Eldritch. You may take the rest of the country but you won't get my little patch of land. Soon as you lay a toe on my property I'll whup ya just to prove Americans aren't as tough as they like to think they are. :putemuppunk:

[Eldritch_of_Fire]

Bring it on Eldritch. You may take the rest of the country but you won't get my little patch of land. Soon as you lay a toe on my property I'll whup ya just to prove Americans aren't as tough as they like to think they are.[/b]

RAWR! :sniper: hehe

[Vex Kitten]

RAWR! :sniper: hehe[/b]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/genhawk/emotes/die_bitches.gif



:bigteeth:

[Man of Steel]

Southerners (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southerners)
Hard to understand when speaking
Owns a rifle
Inbred
Religious fanatics; "Born Again" Christians Racist
Scots-Irish or English heritage
Drive a pick-up truck
Good ol' boys
Sports fans, especially football
Eat grits, fried foods and drink "Sweet Tea" close-minded
women are demure, coy Southern "belles" obsessed with the Civil War
love Nascar
Lives in a mobile home (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_home) Love the KKK
slur their words
Rednecks
Work blue-collar jobs
Most of those are true. Italics are true of most, in my experience, and bold true of me in particular. One thing, though. Our women ain't just coy and demure. We've got some feisty women down here. The racists are mostly in Atlanta, which is full of Northerners anyway, and inbreeding is fiction. Lot's of good ol' boys, though, especially in law enforcement. And everybody has to try to get you to come to their church, it's just a matter of tradition, it seems.

Oh, and my mother makes the best sweet tea in the state. No exaggeration whatsoever.

[Burns]

Have a fettish for English accents[/b]
Yep totally :ohyahbaby:

[Led]

Austrians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrians)
Wear Tirolean hats and lederhosen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lederhosen) Play giant Alpine horns
Excellent singers/yodelers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodeling) Stooges to the Nazis
Great musicians and composers
Export charismatic politicians such as the chancellor of Germany, and governor of California
Annoy people by singing everywhere they go, as in the film The Sound of Music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Music) Good skiers
Boring
Women have mustaches
Anti-Semitic
lol

But I live in the southern US.
I find our stereotypes sad, because so many of them are true.

[CymekSniper]

I'd say only about fifteen of the American stereotypes are true.

[Lomebririon]

Australians All descended from criminals (Based on past as a British penal colony)
Aggressive but good-natured

Wrestle/hunt crocodiles
Generous, friendly

Dingoes ate their babies (that only happened once)
Drink Fosters
Ride kangaroos to school
Call each other mate (this one's actually true)
Adventurous, courageous
Tendency to get in barfights
Known for preparing barbequed prawns ("shrimp on the barbie")
Uncultured

Hate Aborigines
Bonkers

Refer to cheap wine as GOON. ("don't drink beer, GOON's the way of the future! 10 bucks for 4 litres!") Live in the outback (some do, most don't)
Enjoy putting thier own suffixes onto the end of various words (EG: penrith=peno, mount druitt=mounty - and also names: loren=lozza charlie=chazza) Names generally take on the suffix zza
Very Friendly
Good in bed
Large penises

Engage in bestiality
Some of it's true, some of it's not. I've italicised that which isn't true. I italicised Bonkers, but most of the Aussies you find on this site are pretty insane. Not the ones you meet in actuality, but the crazy ones seem to congregate here. :P

[Explode]

Redheads(of various races)
* Extreme anger management problems, short fuse (maybe sometimes...)
* They must be Irish, no other possibilities occur to people (I'm scottish)
* Vampires (How the HELL did they find out?)
* do not have body hair (I'm often compared to as an ape)
* always have freckles (yeah I've got plenty)
* freckles cover body in a sheet (Nope, only on my arms and face)
* have tiny penises (actually, it's quite the opposite)

[NeAvO]

* have tiny penises (actually, it's quite the opposite)[/b]
Just keep telling yourself that :P j/k

[metcalfracing]

Ontarians
friendly
love sports
of Scottish or German descent
very tall
dislike Quebecers

I am none of these.
This article is nothing but LIES!![/b]

Aww... Come on! Everyone hates Quebecers! :)

[Replicon]

I'm a Quebecer, and *I* hate Quebecers :D

[Jess]

The English one is crap.

["tomeeka"]

Southerners

Hard to understand when speaking
Owns a rifle
Inbred
Religious fanatics; "Born Again" Christians
Racist
Scots-Irish or English heritage
Drive a pick-up truck
Good ol' boys
Sports fans, especially football
Eat grits, fried foods and drink "Sweet Tea"
close-minded
women are demure, coy Southern "belles"
obsessed with the Civil War
love Nascar
Lives in a mobile home
Love the KKK
slur their words
Rednecks
Work blue-collar jobs

Yes sometimes I'm hard to understand when speaking to some. I do have and English and Irish heritage. I eat grits, fried foods, and looove sweet tea (is there any other way :) ). I have lived in a mobile home...once and for a few months. I do in fact slur my words. That's about it. LOL

[King and God]

Haha, I love some of the ones about the Jews:

# Penurious, desire to amass wealth, love money
# Larger than average noses[/b]

[Lunalight]

[edit] Americans (United States)
Affinity for firearms, "Gun-Toting"
Most powerful country
Never got over the war in Vietnam
Easy to make fun of
Hate their President
Highly ignorant of the world outside America, and to some extent of their own country outside their home state
Aggressive, Confrontational, Militaristic, has one of the most effective militaries in the world
Overweight
Obsessed by success and outward wealth: the American Dream
Love fast food
Obnoxious, especially as tourists and expatriots
Wasteful, Greedy
Adventurous, Courageous
Naive in the extreme
Rednecks
Love to kill
Affinity for size, "the bigger the better"
Racist
Mawkish/Syrupy TV shows
Loud in public
Hate the French
Don't like to learn foreign languages; think everyone should speak English
Zealous Christians
Willing to take over Canada, just to prove a point
Loves beer and steaks
Often referred to as "zionist infidels"
Interbreed with relatives
Obsessed with saying Muslims are terrorists
Have a fettish for English accents
Hate Canadians

Kind of hate how they lumped "southern" stereotypes into American ones. I mean, you could separate most states and have a whole new list! I, personally, am not overweight, (at all. People say I'm too skinny.) and, I despise over-zealous Christians. I think they are idiots, but that's just me. On the "Ignorant..." one, I blame the public school system. And, I think we could say that, over the course of history, most countries had people who married their cousins. So that one applies to most. I might be easy to make fun of, but I can serve you with a sarcastic comment. Ah, whatever. Pay me no mind; I just think these aren't very well written. If you're going to pick stereotypes, pick ones that are true!

[NeAvO]

If you're going to pick stereotypes, pick ones that are true![/b]
That's a hard thing to do.

Most stereotypes are crap every country has its own sub culture and groups. Most of the English one's were crap but some were true. Besides the site says they are generalizations and not truth.

[Gwendolyn]

These are so funny. I love the US Southerner steryotypes. I live right in the heart of appalachia, (KY) so I find those especially funny. The one about people being 'Good Ol' Boys' and the one about a lot of born again Christian religious fanatics. Those are true, depending on which places you go. In KY, that's pretty much everywhere, except this college town that I am now living in. And, it's still a christian community. It's just that nobody tells you that you're going to hell if you aren't a christian....I've had people everywhere else in KY tell me that, but here.

[CoLd BlooDed]

Originally posted by Lunalight
Highly ignorant of the world outside America, and to some extent of their own country outside their home state

You'd really be surprised.

[Neruo]

Dutch

* Drink Heineken
* good beer, jolly when drinking beer
* attractive/sexy
* men are boring romantic partners
* blue/green eyes and blond(e) hair
* promiscuous, start having sex at a young age
* reputation of "anything goes" with legal cannabis and prostitution
* tolerant
* speak English better than British or Americans
* obsessed with cleanliness
* economic, will save money off everything possible
* wooden shoes, tulips, and windmills dominate perception of culture
* owned and operated the slave ships/trade between Africa and the Americas - guilty over historically ill gotten gains
* travel through Europe in mobile homes
* bad skiers
* very tall
* good businessmen; wealthy
* active pot smokers
* all Dutch people live in Amsterdam
* money-hungry


-

lol.

Dutch people are funny. =)

[CryoDragoon]

Yeah...

But... According to that list... I am no dutchman at all... :(

[Snooze]

Finns/Suomi

* terrific athletes
* avid hunters, outdoorsmen
* sexy, attractive
* tall, blonde, blue eyed majority
* believe all Swedish men are weak and gay
* proud of fighting/resisting Russians & Vikings
* reputation for toughness
* considered intolerant by their Lapp/Sami minority
* too many vowels and double letters in language
* posibly the greatest drivers in the world
* great lovers
* intelligent and technologicly abled

[.:Rob:.]

That English one is crap. I hate the "English" stereotype. The English steriotype basically makes out the we're a nation of Hugh Grants (God, I hate that guy). It's like everyone else thinks we're all rich and drink tea at 11am every day.

[ethen]

Americans (United States)
Affinity for firearms, "Gun-Toting"

I have a couple, just in case [/paranoia]


Easy to make fun of

Its easy to do the heckling when you aren’t the one on stage...

Highly ignorant of the world outside America, and to some extent of their own country outside their home state

I do admit, its hard to get a healthy balance of information when the media is obsessed with America's every move. What can I say? Maybe if the content of the news was a bit more proportionally divided, people would see that we arent the only ones with problems...


Rednecks

wtf? lol

Racist

Hmm, and yet we are the most diverse melting pot in the face of the planet. Its kinda hard to be racist when we aren’t really any one “race” to begin with.

Don't like to learn foreign languages; think everyone should speak English

…in our own country, damn straight! This isn't Amexica, and I don’t care how many there are in this country, illegals don’t have the right "to be heard”. That’s reserved for LEGAL immigrants and citizens only. I’m just tied of this bullshit. You know, if you have the nerve to break into our country and drain our resources, at least have the decency to learn our language. They must be fucking crazy to think they have the right to “speak out” otherwise.


Interbreed with relatives

Now they're just being bitter. This one doesn’t even make sense lol

[Ynot]

It's like everyone else thinks we're all rich and drink tea at 11am every day.
hey, don't knock it
that's what I'm working toward

that and a stately home with 5 acre grounds

screw living in a 2-bed flat....

[homer2020]

Canadians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadians)


Suffer from an intense identity crisis (Don't see how, at least I don't)
Everything has the word 'Canada' in it (I can guarentee I won't use the word Canada in any other word then Canada)
Obnoxious trouble makers when they're drunk (Who isn't?)
Everybody is named Gordy (Never met one)
Make fun of Americans for having a President instead of a Prime Minister (nope, but there quite a few people how make fun of the President himself)
Mostly of Scots ancestry (somewhat true, at least I am, among other things, but this is tru to most people born in NA)
Still don't know who they are yet and this drives this bilinugal bunch bananas (I know who I am and can speak English and French)
Clean ultra-modern cities, liberal attitudes, educated populace, but still a bunch of backward snow farmers, eh! (True, true, true, not true, it doesn't snow all that much, some people think it snows all year round...)
Relaxed and laid back people (for the most part yeah, I'm very laid back)
Love beer and ice hockey (yeah lots of people do)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hockey)
Don't like being confused with Americans (True.... guilty)
Problem with 51st State perception (Yeah this confused me, is there 50 states or not, some test I took said 50 states, I don't get it, explain please)
Wear knit caps (toques) and call each other "hoser" (yeah but not year round, and some people cal people hoser)
Unaggressive (except when it comes to hockey, and Albertans) (I found this to be true)
End all their sentences with "eh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eh)?" (I used the word maybe 4 times in my life, and I don't hear it all that often except for the Newfies)
Have their very own bacon (my own bacon? yes I have bacon in my house and eat it, HOW WEIRD!)
Very polite (Heck no, that or people don't know how to be costumers, I work at Timmies, but outside or work/school people seem somehwat polite)
Speak French and English (I do, but not that many people do outside Quebec or NB)
Believe in American stereotypes (Yeah I'd say so)
Ultra liberal, even conservative(hence the slogan "canadian conservative")
Believe in a welfare state (a welfare state?)
Guaranteed universal healthcare (Yes)
Love gravy on their french fries (Who wouldn't?)
Tall height (Well I'm fairly tall and I'm taller than most people at school/work, so it depends on your perception of tall)
Girls tend to have blonde hair (lots of people dye their hair blond, like most places in NA)
Pronounce about like aboot (Never ever heard someone pronounce it that way)
Spell words the English way, colour instead of color (yes we do spell it that way)
Everyone seems to like rock music (Not so much, me and most my friends do, but there quite a few people who like rap)
Most people have been high at least once (Yeah very true)
Obsessed with hockey (I'm not, but I know alot of people who like hockey, I wouldn't say obsessed though)
Tons of Natives (Rarely see the Natives unless you go to their reserve)
Always snowy (not after February, rarely in March, and Hardly ever before Christmas, Usually Dec 30th to February 31st)
Really Nice (I find that most people are, outside from the complete dicks of people who call themselves costumers, *cough*irony*cough*)
Really good at Hockey (I'm not, and not that many people are)Well that's my list, so our stereotypes are somewhat correct.

[.:Rob:.]

hey, don't knock it
that's what I'm working toward

that and a stately home with 5 acre grounds

screw living in a 2-bed flat....
Are you serious? You actually want to become one of those people who walk around with a stick shoved up their arse, acting like they're better than everyone else because of their yearly income? Haven't you ever watched Wifeswap and seen the people they use?

They always have an upper-middle class family with people who have children at 12 years old who are already mp's/ on the local council who swap with a working class family who act like normal, reasonalble human beings. I hate those upper class families who look down on everyone else.

I'm an average middle class kid, but I sometimes find myself hating my parents for their narrow mindedness when it comes to the working classes. I actually f**ked up all my school work on purpose (and eventually stopped going to school) because of how much people piss me off making out that the working classes as though they're worth less than themselves. All my friends are from working class families and they're the best people I know.

I am aiming for a career in the army and will hopefully be living on another normal, run-down council estate when I am living on my own. I aim to be nothing like my parents or any other snobby, horrible, narrow minded person when I am older. I have been scared into seeing that money isn't anything. Even if I won the lottery and could afford a huge mansion, I'd still live on the same shabby council estate with real, decent people who don't judge everyone else on how much money they have in the bank.