Stereotypes about your country that annoy you

micky wrote: ehhh...  could imagine there are a good many stereotypes about Americans...  most are probably true so I never get upset myself. I know everytime I go abroad I am asked.. what the hell is going on there.. did you really elect an unquaified mentally and morally deficient misogynist, bigoted reality TV 'star' as President. I just throw my hands up and say.. hey.. the greatest generation is dying off... this is the new America. We are just as stupid and ignorant and short sighted as the world we used to take care of, care take, and occasionally save.  The only savior the world might have to look upon now is the f**king Chinese hahah... don't look to us anymore..  in fact.. next to Russia.. you best fear us... we have slid THAT far....

ehhh...  could imagine there are a good many stereotypes about Americans...  most are probably true so I never get upset myself. I know everytime I go abroad I am asked.. what the hell is going on there.. did you really elect an unquaified mentally and morally deficient misogynist, bigoted reality TV 'star' as President.

Edited by micky - April 11 2018 at 19:05

dr wu23 wrote: All the stereotypes about Americans are true.......everyone watches NASCAR, owns guns, and drinks Miller Lite beer.

Reminds me of a joke I heard while traveling, ethnic humor (and this is the one I remember)

On an airplane, sits an American, an Iraqi, an Egyptian, and a Frenchman.... The American man opens up a carton of cigarettes, and after a single puff, throws the entire carton out the plane.

"Why did you do that?" asks the Iraqi man.
"We have a lot of these in America"

Then, not wanting to be outdone, the Frenchman opens up a bottle of cologne, sprays once, and throws it out the airplane.

"Why did you do that?" asks the Iraqi man.
"We have a lot of that in France"

So the Iraqi man picks up the Egyptian man and throws him out the plane..

"Why did you do that?" asks the men.
"We have a lot of them in Iraq!"

BaldJean wrote: Mortte wrote: Everything is BIG in the America. which reminds me of a joke. an American tourist is shown around a German town by a German travel guide. the travel guide shows him a factory and says: "this is our steel factory", to which the American replies "oh, we have that in America too, but bigger, ten times bigger". the travel guide shows another building: "this is our art museum". "oh, we have that in America too, but bigger, ten times bigger". another building follows. "this is our university". "oh, we have that in America too, but bigger, ten times bigger". another building follows. "this is our car factory". "oh, we have that in America too, but bigger, ten times bigger". quite naturally the travel guide gets pretty bugged by this behavior of his companion, so he shows him another building and starts "this is..." but fakes a coughing fit at this point, and of course before he can continue the American chimes in with his "oh, we have that in America too, but bigger, ten times bigger", whereupon the travel guide replies: "I certainly believe you; this is our mental institution"

Haha! good one.

Mortte wrote: Everything is BIG in the America.

which reminds me of a joke. an American tourist is shown around a German town by a German travel guide. the travel guide shows him a factory and says: "this is our steel factory", to which the American replies "oh, we have that in America too, but bigger, ten times bigger".

the travel guide shows another building: "this is our art museum". "oh, we have that in America too, but bigger, ten times bigger".

another building follows. "this is our university". "oh, we have that in America too, but bigger, ten times bigger".

another building follows. "this is our car factory". "oh, we have that in America too, but bigger, ten times bigger".

quite naturally the travel guide gets pretty bugged by this behavior of his companion, so he shows him another building and starts "this is..." but fakes a coughing fit at this point, and of course before he can continue the American chimes in with his "oh, we have that in America too, but bigger, ten times bigger", whereupon the travel guide replies: "I certainly believe you; this is our mental institution"


Edited by BaldJean - April 10 2018 at 16:48

All Americans are obnoxious and unwilling to try to "fit in" when travelling abroad.  

I'd like to hear what stereotypes other countries have about America.

We are not Spanish, please (Iberians it's ok) - We don't kill the bull at the end of the "fiesta" (in Spain they do)

I am originally from the USA and would like to contribute one: "all Americans love baseball". wrong; I find it dead boring and always hated it