Recently I decided to write a song about stereotypes and poking fun at them. I don’t know many stereotypes so I decided it would be best to ask it here.
#1
I'm from the United States. Everyone always seems to assume that we're all overweight, love guns and independence, stupid, don't know anything about other countries, rude, and rednecks (especially if you're from the south like me). It's super annoying because that's not accurate for a large portion of our population. We're just not seen like we are just because the people with the biggest voices fit the stereotypes. I'm really quite sick of it.
11points
#2
That we all poo on the streets and are tech support. I don’t even like computers and coding and the amount of times I was asked to fix something with a computer purely because “I am Indian” is infuriating.
7points
#3
I live in Australia and people seem to think we ride kangaroos to work… I wish.
4points
#4
British- we all drink tea! We don’t!!
4points
#5
We Brits say sorry even when it’s not our fault. Sorry about that.
4points
#6
That we're all rich - no jokes about this one, even our social system is quite very good, there are lots of poor folks. But that never seems to come up, we make sure we look good to the rest of the world.
3points
#7
I’ve got 2 that are really annoying. 1: that animals are found roaming freely in cities, like sure if you live in a small community, like plettenberg bay, you might see a leopard or herd of elephants roaming but ONLY because theres a whole dang forest there, and the areas under protection. All animals are in zoos or parks. 2: that we speak ‘African’ African isn’t even a language, it’s the same as saying “oh you’re from America you must speak American” dude it doesn’t make sense, theres Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, English etc but no one speaks African. (I’m from South Africa)
2points
#8
Guns. Dummys. The Sports. Live, Laugh, Love. EAGLES. 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
2points
#9
That all Canadians say “eh”. We don’t.
2points
#10
So, slightly unrelated, I’m American, and I saw this post from tumblr on Pinterest in a screenshot once. (I don’t have any link to it, sorry) But it was someone asking someone if ALL AMERICANS HAD EAGLES. So yeah, another American stereotype. BUT, instead of saying ‘no, that’s crazy, we’re not that crazy’ they answered that YES, and they still remembered their eagle day. SO at LEAST five other Americans re-blogged the post with memories from their ‘eagle day’ were what I remember was you stand in the middle of an open field and wave around an America flag until your life-long eagle companion choose you.
I would have LOVED to see that post irl and see at the confused non-Americans
( sorry, long)
I would have LOVED to see that post irl and see at the confused non-Americans
( sorry, long)
1point