National Stereotypes

[vgrant]

Are these any more acceptable than racial stereotypes in everyday use ?

eg The Dutch are clog wearing, soft drug smoking, bland waxy cheese eating liberals, whilst their next door neighbours are Chocolate producing paedophile detectives

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[????]

Jocks - tight men, loose woman

Welsh - warm in voice, cold in heart,

Irish - welshman who could swim

where could the fun end?

[Millhaven]

Depends on context and to whom you are using the terms I suppose. Some people just see it as harmless 'banter'. While others of course get hot under the collar about anything remotely xenophobic or negative.

[steveo]

Rich near neighbours are fair game I reckon unless they live in caravans and can't lay tarmac

[Otta]

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> Jocks - tight men, loose woman

Aw, that brings back good memories from a holiday some years back.

[Millhaven]

steveo Wrote:

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> Rich near neighbours are fair game I reckon unless

> they live in caravans and can't lay tarmac

lol

[????]

Personally, I'm looking forward to Salsaboy on the French

[Salsaboy]

And here he is!

Cheese eating surrender monkies - to quote Groundskeeper Willie from The Simpsons.

[Louisa]

Taken from this website http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NationalStereoTypes/WesternEurope

A description of the British, more especially the English, national stereotype.

"Britons have a reputation for being polite, proper, sophisticated, decent, clean, stately, reticent, dignified, and for having a talent for standing patiently in queues, as well as a genuine sense of fair-play. The negative end of this stereotype portrays them as being stiff, stuck up, snobbish, prudent, easily embarrassed, pompous, unemotional, bombastic, imperialistic, self-important, phlegmatic and obsessed with class and social status. Partly true, in the sense that they may not be as instantly outgoing or comfortable with expressing emotion as some other nationalities."

Louisa.

[vgrant]

the Ingerlish are just germans who cant handle their beer

[Millhaven]

vgrant Wrote:

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> the Ingerlish are just germans who cant handle

> their beer

Us? Like the Bosch? I've a good mind to set the hounds on you, sah.