|
 |
Most Infuriating Myth about your Country? | ||
Tags: Stereotypes | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Cultural Experiences in Foreign Languages | ( Topic Closed) |  |
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7015 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes  Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 105 of 177 10 July 2009 at 11:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
|
Are the horses used for meat specially reared for this or are they just old horses that are going to the knacker's yard?
1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Caveben Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5665 days ago 40 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Romanian, Slovenian | Message 106 of 177 13 July 2009 at 6:01am | IP Logged | |||||
|
That we are loud, rude, classless, drunk, homophobic, like the queen, have terrible food and lack style. Although in fairness I do have to concede that many of my countrymen to act in this way.
1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| oz-hestekræfte Senior Member Australia Joined 5678 days ago 103 posts - 117 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Danish | Message 107 of 177 13 July 2009 at 6:21am | IP Logged | |||||
Buy a big freezer and talk to your local butcher...? I tell you though, horse steak does sound weird to me, but not completely unheard of. There is quite a market here in Australia for the live export of glue-horses to Japan. I can only imagine that is because they eat them there. Also not sure if it's a myth, maybe its' a reverse myth. Many can't believe it but yes we do eat our national animal. You can enjoy kangaroo steak at most pubs and it's available at every supermarket. Keep in mind that noone farms kangaroos. They're all taken from the wild by roo shooters. We - have - MILLIONS of them Just don't cook it too long or it goes tough. Now if only I was aboriginal I'd be legally allowed to eat a whole lot more aussie fauna lol Edited by oz-hestekræfte on 13 July 2009 at 6:23am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| P-Russell Newbie United States Joined 5613 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 108 of 177 13 July 2009 at 6:47am | IP Logged | |||||
That isn't a TEXAS stereotype, that's a COWBOY stereotype. But that does reinforce real texas stereotype: they think they have the only real cowboys! Just kidding, but that stereotype is true throughout the midwestern United States, especially here in South Dakota. Both sides of my family fit that description (even me with #1). Other stereotypes about South Dakota and other midwestern states: 1. Everyone is SUPER CONSERVATIVE and SUPER CHRISTIAN (mostly protestant) 2. Hard working, very courteous, help-thy-neighbor, but not very intelligent 3. strange accents- crick (creek), caddle (cattle), Missoura (Missouri) Also stereotypes about Native Americans (aboriginees, indians, hopefully you understand), I'm not native but I know alot of stereotypes 1. lazy and unorganized 2. mean- if they aren't fighting with the government they're fighting with each other 3. needy- always taking government money, handouts, stealing, etc. Are their these stereotypes about people in anybody elses countries? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| House Newbie United States Joined 5647 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 109 of 177 13 July 2009 at 11:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
I'm not sure if this was mentioned, but the state of New Jersey has some stereotypes such as, 1.New Jersey is basically a gigantic mass of garbage and pollution. 2.Everyone is Italian and many have mob-relations. 3.We all have terrible accents 4.NJ is basically one gigantic city. (The northeast is highly developed, but the west and and the pineys aren't. However this is somewhat true and understandable as we are located in the center of the Bos-Wash metropolis) Also there is no such thing as the New Jersey Devil and we actually have a beautiful coastline and many rural areas. Not many people know that the Jersey Shore has many great towns and Atlantic City isn't the only attraction. The Statue of Liberty is also located in NJ waters, not New York's. But if you come to NJ, make sure to say DOWN the shore. Even if you are travelling northward to go the shore, it is still known as going DOWN the shore. Saying it any other way just sounds odd and labels you as an out-of-stater/foreigner. Edited by House on 13 July 2009 at 11:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| livlov Diglot Newbie ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5613 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, English | Message 110 of 177 14 July 2009 at 12:04am | IP Logged | |||||
|
I'm not sure if someone has posted this:
One stereotype about Chinese is that Chinese are very inquisitive, which is not true. Yes, you must be very annoyed and irritated by questions like 'how old are you? what's your job, where are you going? how many kids do you have? How much do you earn for a month? Why are you still single?' Hei! It's none of your business. Why do you Chinese like to dig into other people's privacy? Please don't overreact to those questions next time if you are being asked again. The truth is we don't really care about the facts if you are married, how many kids you have, and so on. We need sth to strike up a conversation just as English do by talking about the weather. Another reason is Chinese as a nation generally perceive others and communities as superior to them (at least at face value if some of them don't really think so.), therefore, a collectivist mind tends to focus on others to show their respect and attention, while at the same time downplaying herself/himself. A good thing is we've start to be more aware of the issue of privacy with more interactions going on with people from western countries. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6665 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 111 of 177 15 July 2009 at 10:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
The latter. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Juan M. Senior Member Colombia Joined 5899 days ago 460 posts - 597 votes | Message 112 of 177 16 July 2009 at 1:31am | IP Logged | |||||
I love Germany, but this is disgusting. 1 person has voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
