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  • katielauren2001
    katielauren2001 Posts: 171 Member
    I'm from Scotland and people have the biggest and some of the most ridiculous stereotypes about Scottish people. That we are a "backward country" Scotland has lots of famous inventors! That we wear kilts all the time = not true, how we speak, look etc is all one big stereotype.
  • RunChinni
    RunChinni Posts: 149 Member
    I'm from India...and i get tired of people amazed that i can speak English and that i didnt play with tigers and snakes while growing up and that i have an actual toilet inside my house!

    and NO there is no such thing as eyeball soup in India!!!

    ^This.

    I often get asked why I have a British accent and don't sound like Apu from The Simpsons. I don't know whether to laugh or to be offended. And no, I don't have cows or elephants as pets.
  • SurfinBird1981
    SurfinBird1981 Posts: 517 Member
    I'm from England and I have NICE STRAIGHT TEETH!!!! lol

    I live in Taiwan now, dunno if there are any preconceptions about this place....
  • cannonsky
    cannonsky Posts: 850 Member
    Slightly off topic... but can someone point out to me what an east coast accent it. I'm living on the west coast now and was told I have an accent... first time ever.


    Side note- by east coast accent i do not mean new york or boston
  • peprwpr
    peprwpr Posts: 56 Member
    Im always running into that as an Okie.............cowboys & indians. We really do live in houses, drive cars, and I have never been attached by a bunch of indians in my life.
    Although, I will say, the town I live in, has a population of 76, and the closest quick shop is 10miles away. The only thing we have here is a post office & a grain elevator. Come harvest time, this town will be hoppin' though............
  • Jersey_Devil
    Jersey_Devil Posts: 4,142 Member
    umm, I'm from jersey. nuff said.

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  • Jersey_Devil
    Jersey_Devil Posts: 4,142 Member
    Slightly off topic... but can someone point out to me what an east coast accent it. I'm living on the west coast now and was told I have an accent... first time ever.


    Side note- by east coast accent i do not mean new york or boston

    there are soooo many different types of east coast accents.
  • deeharley
    deeharley Posts: 1,208 Member
    I'm from Alaska - and we ARE part of the United States, and despite what the map on the wall in your third grade classroom showed, we ARE NOT an island.
  • Jersey_Devil
    Jersey_Devil Posts: 4,142 Member
    I'm from Alaska - and we ARE part of the United States, and despite what the map on the wall in your third grade classroom showed, we ARE NOT an island.

    but you can see Russia from your kitchen window, right? :wink:
  • munchkinhugs
    munchkinhugs Posts: 278 Member
    Western Sydney - that everyone who lives out this was is classless, pregnant, illiterate, and a bogan.
  • MyFeistyEvolution
    MyFeistyEvolution Posts: 1,014 Member
    I'm from NH...people in other areas have made assumptions that I'm a hick or a "snob from New England". I'm neither.
  • littlesis412
    littlesis412 Posts: 314 Member
    I'm from Kentucky. So, apparently I have:
    -no shoes
    -no education
    -live in a trailer or shack
    -no teeth
    -no grammar
    -racist
    -religious
    -related to everyone
    -daughter of a coal miner or farmer (ok, actually he was a farmer but I'm proud of that)
    -live off the government (only for educational scholarships)
    -teen mom
    -meth lab
    -love KFC (wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole)
    -poverty and ignorance in general
    -and most recently, burn our cities down for winning a basketball game (seriously, I was home going homework and I'm a UK fan)
  • citydwellers
    citydwellers Posts: 40
    Them: "Where are you from?"
    Me: "Kansas City"
    Them: "Oh, Kansas! Where's Toto, Dorothy??!!"

    #1. I'm from Kansas City, MISSOURI. #2. No, I don't live on a farm, own cattle, or have ever been swooped up by a tornado...

    I'm from KC, MO too and I couldn't agree more!!
  • Andrea681
    Andrea681 Posts: 178 Member
    That is rains all the time. Seattle actually has some beautiful sunny day. Especially in the Summer and Fall.
  • Andrea681
    Andrea681 Posts: 178 Member
    Haha! Love this!
  • stephabef
    stephabef Posts: 936 Member
    Lots of folks confuse Atlanta with... the rest of Georgia. We're a blue dot in a very red state. Most people I know weren't born here - I only know three native Atlantans.
  • Tennessee2019
    Tennessee2019 Posts: 676 Member
    California born & raised.
    2 Words - California Girl. Nuff said.

    Blonde (yes) Tall (yes) Perfect Figure (No)
    Then of course, there are the blonde jokes that go along with it..............
  • genuinelyfrans
    genuinelyfrans Posts: 584
    umm, I'm from jersey. nuff said.

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    This is so true! I am also from New Jersey and people assume that we are like the people from the Jersey Shore (I have heard the term "guidos" used before to describe people from New Jersey). In case anyone is wondering, I am Hispanic and proud of it :)
  • knittnponder
    knittnponder Posts: 1,953 Member
    Well according to Rolling Stone magazine a few years ago, I live in the meth capitol of the world! As far as I can tell they prefer alcohol and weed but maybe the meth is carefully hidden. We do have meth issues but not as prevalent as you would think having read that article. Mostly though it's just a small town with lots of families and a community that's trying to change it's image. I think it's a nice town. :)
  • Akijade
    Akijade Posts: 210 Member
    I'm from Oregon, so I must be a lumberjack.
  • Kenzietea2
    Kenzietea2 Posts: 1,132 Member
    People assume since I am from orange county, CA that I should be blonde, my boobs should be fake, I am rich, and not very intelligent. None of the above is true! (I guess some would argue I am blonde, though).
  • knittnponder
    knittnponder Posts: 1,953 Member
    That is rains all the time. Seattle actually has some beautiful sunny day. Especially in the Summer and Fall.

    The last three days have been spectacular!
  • Tulipgirl1223
    Tulipgirl1223 Posts: 91 Member
    Being from Chicago most people comment on Al Capone.

    Come on, that was 90 years ago, we're all about corrupt politicians now people.

    Tim

    This LOL
  • HelloSweetie4
    HelloSweetie4 Posts: 1,214 Member
    A lot of people think Rhode Island is part of New York... It surprises me, because didn't they learn the 13 colonies in grade school?!
    Also, if they do know that RI is an actual state, they assume that no one pronounces "r"s when you are supposed to and add "r"s when there are none. so "go to the car and grab the soda" becomes "go to tha caah and grab the soder"
  • RoanneRed
    RoanneRed Posts: 429 Member
    Slightly tangential but, when I lived in Paris (France) for a year and restaurant customers asked where I was from, I found it quite entertaining to ask them to guess. I remember one occasion where they were going through all the American states and I just kept telling them 'further south' - they had a real problem after Florida until I advised them I wasn't American as noone ever guessed that I was a New Zealand-born Australian! Others also tried England, Ireland and Scotland but I really don't know how they sometimes asked if I was Italian!
  • jhardenbergh
    jhardenbergh Posts: 1,035 Member
    I am from Massachusetts, everyone thinks we are better than them and that we are the bluest of the blue states, well for one I am more right leaning, but I do think I am better than everyone.
  • lripson28
    lripson28 Posts: 213 Member
    I'm from upstate New York. Way upstate. In the Adirondacks. It's absolutely the boondocks up here. Anytime I'm traveling and I tell someone I'm from New York, I get, "What was it like to grow up in such a big city?" Or, "wow, the big apple!" Or something along those lines. New York is a lot more than just New York City.

    Yupp I'm from Lockport, NY, the total opposite side of the state from NYC and people still always think of the city.
  • muscular_dude
    muscular_dude Posts: 36
    Dude.. You can't be "half Canadian". Canada is a multicultural society.....

    Well I'm 50% Canadian. And 50% Russian. I'm a US Born person but tell it to my parent's that I can't be half Canadian. They will be interested to hear what you have to say.

    Canadian isn't an ethnicity you idiot -.-


    My maternal side is....

    "French Canadian or Francophone Canadian (also Canadien in Canadian English or in French) generally refers to the descendents of French colonists who arrived in New France (Canada) in the 17th and 18th centuries. Today, French Canadians constitute the main French-speaking population of Canada."




    I have strong French-Canadian ancestry on my mother's side....so what does that mean? huh. And name calling really? Thought Canadians were supposed to be nice - what's that aboot 'eh?

    So back to my question? I'm 50% Russian and 50% of my blood is CANADIAN. What is the correct way to phrase this?


    100% American with Canadan and Russian ancestry.
  • muscular_dude
    muscular_dude Posts: 36
    DEE-troit baby! And no, not the ghetto. Miss it
    terribly. Live in Indy now - corn field hell. Not a lake in the state worth visiting.

    the "D" too "the heartbeat of America" ...oh that"s not a misconception
  • spearfox
    spearfox Posts: 276 Member
    From Oklahoma also.
    Hicks, rednecks, bible thumpers, teepees, dirt roads, pickup trucks and all that other stuff. I've heard lots of it.

    When I was in Germany for a long vacation many years ago some people were not sure where Oklahoma was.
    They did know the tv show Dallas and J.R. Ewing. Sometimes I would tell them I live North of Dallas.

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