Ethnic Stereotypes

the liar;:

Hm. Oh. Spelling. I used to go to a British-system school, so I spelt everything as "colour", "cosy", "organise", "jewellery", "defence", etc., until the beginning of this year where I lost heaps of points on a quiz just because I spelt things the way I did. My teacher's like, "This is an American school! Spell things the American way!" Uh... yeah, sure. Only I never did, haha... which probably explained my quiz fails.

In year 7 my teacher spelt colour color and we decided it would be fun to tell her off about it because she was a teacher and she should know better.
she then went on lecturing us about that that was the way she has always spelt it and technically it is not wrong. So there is you're proof. nobody can tell you that it is wrong, tell them you are spelling things the way you always have; the way you have been taught, either the learn to read both English (US) and English (UK/Aus) or they come to terms with proper English.

I'm from New Jersey. Because of Jersey Shore now everyone must think we're all hot-tempered, big-mouthed guidos/guidettes. It's embarassing.

vulture.:

I'm from New Jersey. Because of Jersey Shore now everyone must think we're all hot-tempered, big-mouthed guidos/guidettes. It's embarassing.

Ouch.

I'm from Wyoming. Everybody thinks that we are all cowboys and ride horses to school and that we have no modern technology. And the movie Did You Hear About the Morgans? is completely stereotypical.

Sure, we have some farmers and cowboys, but so does Texas and California. We're exactly like everyone else, just with smaller towns, a whole lot more Republicans, and there are only 500,000 of us.

I've never even ridden a horse.

I'm from Alabama, so I'm a backwoods, redneck, uneducated Republican with a mighty fine cousin.

My cousins are all ugly, thank you very much.

No, but really. Sometimes it does get a bit old when EVERY. SINGLE. BAND. who plays a show in Alabama thinks they're all cute and starts belting out Sweet Home Alabama as their final song. I paid to hear you play YOUR songs, not a bad cover song from a band that's amazing, but not actually FROM Alabama.

I'm from Ireland, and you guessed it: I'm a redhead with green eyes, skin the color of milk and freckles all over.
We greet everyone with "Top o' de mornin' to ye, laddy" and every second word is feck.
Leprechauns exist; I keep two in my garden field - because all Irish people live on farms in the countryside. We don't have cities, "to be sure, to be sure".

Our grammar is always atrocious:
"He does be working every day." "They do be talking on their mobiles a lot."
"He does be doing a lot of work at school." "It's him I do be thinking of."

To us, the plural of you is either "youse" or "yis".

We're all called John or Mary or Paddy. Unless we have an Irish name like "Saoirse Ni Mhuiricú."

Oh, and yes, we do know everyone else in Ireland. Especially your aunt's husband's sister's dog's trainer's cousin's friend's brother who is Irish.

I'm Canadian, I must say 'eh' at the end of every sentence [/sarcasm]

I'm Scottish. I have haggis for my tea, then go down the pub to get steaming drunk and sing sea shanties in my kilt

I'm Indian, so I eat curry all day, smell bad, and my parents either own a 7 Eleven or a motel/hotel. [/heavy sarcasm]

I'm English. So I have bad teeth, drink tea, I'm snooty, I speak with a cockney accent or the entire opposite in the Queen's English accent, I'm friends with the queen, I go to the local pub regularly where everyone knows each other because we live in tiny villages with cobbled roads, and we do drive-by arguments instead of drive-by shootings.

Oh what a strange mix up.

You probably know the sterotypes for black people.
Basically sterotypes come from what the "vast majority" looks like or acts like. The problem is that when the word "all" is used, it causes problems and makes them not true. The stereotype that "all black people like chicken" isn't true because my mom has met someone who doesn't. But I like chicken and I don't know a lot of people who don't. Same goes for the watermelon one. Watermelon is my favorite fruit but not every black person likes watermelon.

Now when it comes to looks, most black people have rounder but larger noses while people that are caucasion or European often have skinny but pointer noses. Most black people have big lips.

Now because people are mixed with so many different cultures now a days, a lot of stereotypes are denyed more. My mother has very thin lips but I'm very convinced that she has some white in her. I can't say the same for myself though because I have full lips, a round nose (like a teddy bear nose) brown eyes, very thick, curly hair...everything you would expect from a "stereotypical" black person. The only thing strange about me is a large birthmark I have that goes from my elbow crease to my left ear that's lighter than me. My father jokes and says its the white girl coming out of me. But it's because his grandfather was Scottish.

I have an Arkansas SSN. I lived in Arkansas for all of 6 or 7 months when I was young, then lived in Southern Illinois. My name is Jessica Smith. =/

Everyone spells my nickname that I always go by (Jessi) with an 'E' because they think that everyone further down south names their kid Jesse.
I ride horses all the time and I can't drive in snow. I can't take any form of cold whatsoever. I'm a cowgirl. I'm a Republican and tan easily because I'm used to working in the hot sun. I love cowboys.
Oh, and lets not forget the American stereotypes. I'm angry all the time. I'm spoiled rotten and text all the time on my wonderful texting phone. I throw things at my parents when I get mad. I don't know anything about any other culture, period. I can't spell to save my life. Lets not forget how anorexic I could be, or on the flip side, extremely obese. (I say those because thats all I see on TV about us anymore. Spoiled teens getting shows or news reports about how fat we all are.)

Things that are actually true?
I do hate the cold
The closest thing to 'cowgirl' to me is tomboy, and that I am.

Very irritating...

English stereotypes
I love how everyone thinks that people speak really posh. Not at all.
Oh and the teeth thing? Jeez, we have normal teeth. In my experience, it's only really Americans that have the 'glowing white, perfectly straight' things anyway. I've not seen it happen as much as it does in the USA around the rest of the world.
But, I must say, the Brits do drink a lot of tea. (I'm making a generalisation, of course but) It's not abnormal to have 7 or 8 cups a day here. Most people have atleast 3.

the fiddling imp:

Oh and the teeth thing? Jeez, we have normal teeth. In my experience, it's only really Americans that have the 'glowing white, perfectly straight' things anyway. I've not seen it happen as much as it does in the USA around the rest of the world.

British man with nice teeth.

I'm Russian, so I'm apparently really good with vodka... This assumption does not come in handy.

I've decided that as much as i laugh at what people say about my country and as much as i like to pretend that i do or don't fit the stereotype, I've given up caring.

I'm Salvadorian, it's in Central America and not that many people know about it.
Since I live in Southern California, i think you can guess what stereotypes i get.

"ARE YOU MEXICAN???"
"THE SALVADOR? IS THAT A PART OF MEXICO?"

Ugh, even teachers ask if I'm Mexican.
Still, we make awesome pupusas. Which are a better version of quesadillas.

I'm Filipino. I have a pet dog.

No, I am not planning on eating her anytime soon.

pacific.:

I'm from New Jersey. Because of Jersey Shore now everyone must think we're all hot-tempered, big-mouthed guidos/guidettes. It's embarassing.

This too.

I'm Australian. No, I don't have a pet kangaroo and I don't go around saying 'g'day mate'. I talk like every other English speaking person, with an Australian accent, though. But I don't sound like Crocodile Dundee or Steve Irwin.

the mice endure:

I talk like every other English speaking person, with an Australian accent. But I don't sound like Crocodile Dundee or Steve Irwin.

I'm Aussie too. I've noticed something over the past week. When i tell stories to people i put on a proper English accent without even realising it. When I go to the country to visit my cousins I start talking like them, really Boganish (Dundee) and when I'm home (suburbs) I start talking the way i normally do; typical Aussie accent.

I'm Quebec, Canada. We're the "French-Canadians", ever so fleetingly mentionned.

Most of the stereotypes that are associated with us are true, though. And they are not unlike the Irish stereotypes.

Always drinking, fighting for separation from the opressor and for the protection of a language, an unintelligible accent.
All mostly true! But in the best possible way!

I was born and spent the majority of my life in North Dakota. This automatically means that I speak with a Norwegian accent because of the movie Fargo--which wasn't even really filmed in North Dakota. Also, I have pet sheeps because of the movie Woolly Boys--which also had very few parts filmed in ND. We drive in big huge trucks with guns in the back window, and we have crooked teeth and wear parkas all year round because it's so cold. We have no modern technology, and we ride from town to town in covered wagons if we don't have the big huge trucks. Everyone lives on farms or ranches, and we're all incestuous freaks.

Note the heaping dose of sarcasm.