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Hey Pandas, Tell Us The Most Popular Stereotype Of Americans Where You Are From (Closed)
What are typical stereotypes you hear about Americans - good or bad. Are they big misconceptions or do you feel they hold merit?
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#1
My answer is this: stop with this nonsense. Didn't we just have this discussion? You know, the one where we discussed how posts like this were basically hostile and totally uncalled for? If I started a post ridiculing another country and its citizens, all hell would break loose and don't tell me this isn't true. And yes, we Americans can skip over these types of posts and comments, and very often most of us do. However, there are times when we're just not in the mood to forgive and forget, like today. I won't apologize for defending my country from this nonsense and if I'm down voted, so be it. This shiit (and it is complete shiit) gets so old and these comments are so unoriginal, it's not even funny. At the very least, come up with something we haven't heard yet. We may be stupid, but we recognize ignorant redundancy when we see it.
Final score:
59points
#2
You're brainwashed from a very small child to think US is the land of freedom and the greatest country in the world. You literally make kids repeat the Pledge of Alliance in schools. You also have zero workers' rights, no maternity leave, no public health care. If you don't work all the time, you are seen as lazy.
It's the land of extremes. You got dirt poor and filthy rich to the point of "I take 3 minute flights instead of driving bc I have a private plane and I can", big queer communities and loud anti-human rights christians, great education & research and the dumbest idiots of all times.
Final score:
29points
#3
I'm usually careful with stereotypes, but here is one I can wholeheartedly call "an American thing":
They can (and will) file a lawsuit for reasons that are unthinkable in Europe. They sue anyone, for anything. It's just not possible here.
And it's a bit of a running joke, for example if you've hurt yourself bumping against something, it's "Damn, if I lived in the U.S., I could sue whoever placed this object here and they'd pay me!"
Final score:
25points
#4
hard right, trump-loving, american flag raising, hat-wearing, truck-having, sweaty middle-aged men who want to take away women's rights because...well...america..??
ps. i'm in georgia.
Final score:
18points
#5
"No one wants to work" No one wants to work themselves to death and still be unable to survive.
Final score:
18points
#6
Politicizing everything.
Being offended by how we do/say things. (and then proceeding to try and "educate" us on why we're wrong.) - My favourite (of many) is getting offended by the term "Coloured" when it's a legit ethnic group here.
Final score:
17points
#7
Im from the uk and always thought americans were very polite, like they say bathroom instead of loo and dont swear, as all the tourists from the us ive met were very polite. I know not everyone is though
Final score:
16points
#8
Americans (and most western countries as well) are incredibly friendly and chatty out of nowhere.
Final score:
14points
#9
Americans seem to talk and socialize a lot more compared to people from other countries.
Final score:
13points
#10
Loud and ignorant. Gets upset when traveling because things aren't done the way they are are in the US.
Final score:
13points
#11
Rude, unapologetic, abrupt, obnoxiously patriotic with backward laws. Believers of the "American Dream", as cheesy as it sounds. Americans really do live by that motto.
Final score:
7points
#12
Fat, uneducated in many domains (geography, language...), thinking all is better in the USA, having a Manichean way of thinking, mostly about politics, confusing "socialism" with what is "social".
Final score:
7points
#13
Not everyone, but it seems a lot of us (I am American) love our guns more than we love our children.
Final score:
7points
#14
That they are geographically challenger...
Final score:
6points
#15
Loud, annoying, MAGA_hat wearing idiots. I'm from the US. :-)
Final score:
5points
#16
We are all dying because we cannot afford the hospital or medicine. Not wrong er charged me 1,300 to come into it.
Final score:
5points
#17
CA. Hipsters that like complicated coffee, and live by the beach
Final score:
5points
#18
You all are rich, very rich. And for all I've read it's very true honestly.
True extreme poverty in my country is eating from a trash can, in the US it seems to be eating McDonald's. I've read numerous stories from people who grew from poverty in US and said they would eat McDonald's like if that is something poor people can afford. Meanwhile I grew up knowing McDonald's is rich people's food.
Minimal hourly wage is equivalent to 1 US dollar. I paid about 8 dollars my first and only time trying Subway, 8 hours of work is the price of a sandwich.
I say that because I've read american people say they're not rich as we think, but you need to understand to people who live in about 240 dollars monthly sometimes even with a degree, you are indeed rich.
Final score:
4points
#19
If you live in Texas and you are a Democrat then the repubs think you are poor, probably on welfare, drug using anti-law enforcement. We have advanced college degrees, live in a wealthy community and are retired from Federal law enforcement careers. It sure messes with them when they learn these facts.
Final score:
3points
#20
I live in Florida on the Atlantic Coast. I don't really think all the crazy "Florida Man" stereotypes are true. There are a few redneck types, but overall people are reasonable and accepting of everyone. Floridians get a bad rap sometimes, but I don't think it's fair.
Final score:
3points
#21
We have a name for them...
Fig Jam .... " F#%k i'm good ... Just ask me."
Final score:
2points
#22
Racist white men who hold up fish on their tinder profile pictures, though I hate to admit that's like 75% of the state.
Ps: Pennsylvania
Final score:
2points
#23
Literally everything being religious, also people who aren’t the “normal” being ostracized. If you couldn’t guess, I’m from the Deep South. SWEET HOME ALABAMA!!!!!!!!
Final score:
2points
#24
Look, I know that American citizens are just like me. I have met with a few and they are genuinely good people but....
"Oh, God, this place is so quaint! Can we buy it?"
"Is that the same moon that we've got?"
"What do you guys do in the winter?" (Thinking that we only live here for the tourist season and, somehow, go back to where we live).
I live in the Falkland Islands and we know that most US citizens are not like this.
Final score:
2points
#25
Being more extroverted and a little too loud. Also kind of scary-religious, but then again better keep praying to Jesus to help you cause your government sure as hell won't...
Final score:
1point
#26
i've never heard anyone trashtalk themselves more than americans, but then i realized it's political; liberals trashtalk the conservatives and vice versa (they never mention that part though)
Final score:
1point
#27
Two things that all people from the United States (maybe around 20) that I have met or got to know in the past had in common: they were incredibly polite and chatty. I got along with them pretty well, from my perspective I can't approve all the typical stereotypes to be honest. Okay, often beeing chatty includes beeing loud and I read that here a few times, so maybe that matches. Germany
Final score:
1point
#28
That they spend most of their tax money on armies to invade oil-bearing countries. Whether that's true or not... mmm.
Final score:
0points
#29
confederate batte flags
chesapeak blue crabsp
Final score:
0points
#30
Let me try spelling right
Confederate battle flags
Chesapeake Bay blue crabs
Final score:
0points
#31
Very poor diet that leads to obesity, uneducated and ignorant and strangely "proud"' of being American (whatever that means).. I find all of these stereotypes true
Final score:
0points
#32
Seattle WA. Passive aggressive, unfriendly, hypocrite liberals who drive alone in their car bubble to work instead of talking a bus.
Final score:
0points
#33
1. the damn stereotypes about gender and colors. cant all colors be for everyone?
2. "america is the home of freedom". they say it is the home for freedom, but they legit enslaved people a looooong time ago
Final score:
0points
#34
Wrestling alligators by my swamp home while I wear my worn down overalls. Maybe have some jumbo or jambalaya whilst I sit in my rocking chair just waiting to shoot something with the gun that’s in my lap.
P.S I’m from Louisiana, if you couldn’t tell. I visit up North a lot and someone noticed my southern accent and asked me why we wrestle alligators with our bare hands 🤦♀️
Final score:
0points
#35
1. the price of health care
2. school shootings
3. guns
4. abortion rights
5. guns
6. fat people
7. rednecks
8. guns
9. college prices
To be clear I am not trying to offend anybody I know for a fact a lot of these are not all true but that's what first comes to mind for a lot of the people that I know
I don't feel like having an argument about them in the comments as some of the ones I diss agree with I just asked about 10 of my friends and these are what came up multiple times
Final score:
0points
#38
Can't spell ENGLISH words properly and think that there is actually something called American English .... no! It's English as in British !
Final score:
-1point
#39
*slaps knees* Welp, 'spose I should be headin' out now. Ope, dropped my pop! (Midwest)
Final score:
-1point
#40
that they believe America is the only, or best, country in the world
Final score:
-1point
#41
I live in Australia but I’m just going to go off my family
Overall, it’s just a lot of violence because we keep seeing things like shootings on the news (not to mention it is the home of Trump). Howverer, we may travel there (not for a vacation though, my parents think it’s a bit dangerous since people can just walk around armed).
Final score:
-1point
#42
I'm American and I've lived all over the USA and have noticed one "stereotype" everywhere:
Americans don't fix problems. We procrastinate, sweep under the rug, or just plain ignore it and hope it will go away.
But we rarely, rarely, fix it.
We know how. We just don't. I think because that would mean we acknowledge that we aren't the best country in the world. So we see failure as an affront to the American Dream and place blame on the people for not succeeding, when our system itself is set up for most of us to fail.
Final score:
-1point
#43
Obese and stupid, due to low level of education, and hence they are easily manipulated by politicians, comercials or employers trying to exploit them without giving a s**t about other people's well being.
Everything is absurdly big, which include tank like cars that only run a few miles per gallon, while they complain about how absurdly high the gas prices are (could the solution maybe be to get a smaller car with a better milage, if you, afterall, only use it to go grocery shopping on paved roads in the city?).
America is a country where you are left to die, in case a minor bump on the road knocks you a bit "out of balance" for a period, since you are completely left on your own. E.g. a jobloss, a natural disarster or a minor untreated health issue that is allowed to develop into a major problem that can ruin an entire life for economical reasons, however they cannot realise that sometimes helping people a little, so they can get back on their feet and be productive will be a good investment for society -because god forbid, you would have to pay for someone else, and that will reduce your freedom.
They all live by the dream that if they just work hard enough they will become a milionair, and hence the support a system that benefits billionairs while it actually reduce their chance of making it, because the system is rigged against the little man. Basically they are selling their well-being in order to keep an unrealistic dream alive, instead of actually doing the things that would better their current conditions. Therefore there are numbers of them that vote against their own best interest.
Guns have gotten a wierdly accepted to such a point that no one any longer reflect on the fact that giving anybody the option of killing anyone else almost instantinously might not really be nessesary in most situations, while guns comes with a lot of problems, that is completely ignored. E.g. shcool shooting have almost just become a cost of business, and no one really seem to care about fixing it, but only exercise proforma rituals of mentioning "thoughts and prayers", or saying "this is a too emotional moment to talk about guns", or just is blaming it on mental issues, without doing anything to help better the situation. Instead you will be presented with b******t ideas implying that more guns will solve the issue (so basically putting out a fire with gasolin). It has been proven time and time again that more guns is not the solution, but gunlovers are simply too dense for those arguments to work. Instead you will just hear the same lines over and over.
They have an absurd opinion about the danger level of certain things, you are simply not old enough to drink alcohol, but you can drive a car, get a gun or join the militairy, and God forbid it if someone is to see a naked body. Killing other is ok, but loving someone, oh no, and you better not teach children about sex, as you might inspire them.
Many of them have never been outside of the States, and seem like the could not care any less about the world outside. Hence they don't have good understanding of what goes on elsewhere, and cannot fanthom that things could be done differently and that there might be a better way to run the society, because the US is the best country on the planet.
They are too lazy to learn other countries, and get very offended that they cannot just speak English anywhere in the world.
Final score:
-2points
What do you think ?
Eline 2 years ago
I wonder how french people are seen. I mean, i already know some clichés about us: we eat snails, we are always in a hurry , paris is sooooo romantic ( trust me, it's not), but i'm curious about it. Oh, and no, we don't always wear a "beret" or have a baguette with us 24/7. No no no.
Jordan 2 years ago
Yep you got most of them. 'French Rudeness" particularly towards Americans (like looking down at them) was a thing. Not that I ever bought into that. Oh and the French surrender easily. Think that's mainly a military stereotype. Plus these perceptions are a lil outdated I think. As an American man I have the perception of French Women as elegant, stylish, and beautiful/loving. Could be totally off and ignorant though. Willing to cop to it. Depends on the woman I'm sure.
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Huddo's sister 2 years ago
For those offended by the topic being about the US only, feel free to give me your Australian stereotypes, I find them hilarious :)
Eline 2 years ago
I wonder how french people are seen. I mean, i already know some clichés about us: we eat snails, we are always in a hurry , paris is sooooo romantic ( trust me, it's not), but i'm curious about it. Oh, and no, we don't always wear a "beret" or have a baguette with us 24/7. No no no.
Jordan 2 years ago
Yep you got most of them. 'French Rudeness" particularly towards Americans (like looking down at them) was a thing. Not that I ever bought into that. Oh and the French surrender easily. Think that's mainly a military stereotype. Plus these perceptions are a lil outdated I think. As an American man I have the perception of French Women as elegant, stylish, and beautiful/loving. Could be totally off and ignorant though. Willing to cop to it. Depends on the woman I'm sure.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 2 years ago
For those offended by the topic being about the US only, feel free to give me your Australian stereotypes, I find them hilarious :)
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