American and British Stereotypes :scratch:

Some common American stereotypes of Brits (and only half of them are actually true):

-- Brits have bad teeth :D -- British men are bad in bed -- Brits are all snobs -- Brits have a really dry humor -- Brits are more suicidal b/c of the weather -- Brits hate all surrounding European countries -- Brits are fashionable -- British men are pansies -- Brits tell bad jokes -- Brits look pasty-pale -- Brits steal everything from Americans

Any British stereotypes of Americans?

Vejayes wrote:

-- Brits are more suicidal b/c of the weather -- Brits hate all surrounding European countries

This is not only american stereotype...

Classic British stereotype of American soldiers during WWII: "Over sexed, over paid and over here."

Vejayes wrote: Some common American stereotypes of Brits (and only half of them are actually true):

-- Brits have bad teeth :D -- British men are bad in bed -- Brits are all snobs -- Brits have a really dry humor -- Brits are more suicidal b/c of the weather -- Brits hate all surrounding European countries -- Brits are fashionable -- British men are pansies -- Brits tell bad jokes -- Brits look pasty-pale -- Brits steal everything from Americans

Any British stereotypes of Americans?

A common British stereotype of Americans is they are dumb,particularly when it comes to stereotyping Brits see above for evidence.We are the most brave,proud,best joke telling,wonderful lovers on Earth to my mind.We ofcourse have a proud history and heritage which Yankee doodle wishes it had,but never can for another 1000 years or more.We ar'nt called GREAT Britain the world over for nothing..Whoever heard of a the British surrendering?Face it our American cousins,the British are very special indeed,and I suspect all you would like to be yourselves,except maybe you would like to keep your own dental healthcare I can laugh aloud at the ignorance of those stereotypes but not Britishmen are PANSIES One glance at our history blows that out of the water

Guys, guys, can't we all just get along......and hate on the French

I can only imagine what some of the Brits must've thought when I posted my location as being in "the South". They must have wondered how I could possibly know how to get online and type correctly

Fortunately I have done nothing to get rid of that stereotype

Brits talk funny! :D

Vejayes wrote:

British men are bad in bed ?

Dunno. Haven't tried any ........................... YET!

Vejayes wrote: Brits are all snobs

Not true. A nooler called Moz is also a snob and he's not even British.

Vejayes wrote: Brits have a really dry humor

They have great sense of humor, similar to ours.

:D

admit it americans are the best-looking.

... oh, and I admit that Americans are stubborn for not using the metric system, but the Brits are as stubborn for not adopting the Euro!

Spotnick wrote:

Taboo # 7 wrote: Guys, guys, can't we all just get along......and hate on the French

Don't start Trevor...

:D

Ah, Spotty, you know I meant just the ones in France. You Candians are alright. You gave us Kids In The Hall, John Candy, and Lorne Michaels. But we'll get over that and all will be forgiven when you become the 51st state

I'll get my coat

Unfortunately you can't get British Stereotypes anymore, they're mostly from the far east or Germany. Mines a load of separates - Rotel amp, Marantz tape deck etc. Wouldn't mind one of those nice little Denon micro systems though, saw one witha DVD drive....

James Thomas wrote: Unfortunately you can't get British Stereotypes anymore, they're mostly from the far east or Germany. Mines a load of separates - Rotel amp, Marantz tape deck etc. Wouldn't mind one of those nice little Denon micro systems though, saw one witha DVD drive....

Hahahaha....This thread is shaping up nicely.Hands up all yanks who would love to be British.Or If say USA never existed,and you could choose yourself a new nationality what would you choose for yourself?If there were no Britain,I would have to choose death no offence,but there's only one Britain.We invented almost everything,and ofcourse have New order.Bully for Great Britain Beat that!!!! :D

Spotnick wrote: I'm french-canadian, not canadian :p Alright, but my ancestors are french.... !

And you play hockey, right?

michael brown wrote:

James Thomas wrote: Unfortunately you can't get British Stereotypes anymore, they're mostly from the far east or Germany. Mines a load of separates - Rotel amp, Marantz tape deck etc. Wouldn't mind one of those nice little Denon micro systems though, saw one witha DVD drive....

Hahahaha.

I really don't get British humor...

When I was in Washington DC 15 years ago for a job, I met a man there who was an alcoholic. But he told me that the doctor told him that it was ok for him to drink wine. But not wiskey or beer.

And he drank wine alot

Isn't that strange, or is it a sterotype?

i got so tired of the dumb pollacks jokes when i was younger.

i played a lot of street hockey growing up in buffalo. It was loads of fun getting smack in the head with a stick.

Buffalo should be an honorary candian city. Much more in common then new york city.

FAC103 wrote: Well, at least you don't come from a place that Dubya claims to be from...

by the way, you all know he isn't really a Texan...right???

was he raise in greenwich, connecticut. That place is filthy rich.

szwajkos technique wrote: admit it americans are the best-looking.

Never! Except for Jeff, haha!!!

NObabe wrote:

British men are bad in bed ?

Dunno. Haven't tried any ........................... YET!

believe me...it certainly isn't true!

Americans:

• All Americans are psycho-Christians (I'm an apatheist!)

• All Americans watch American football

• Americans don't travel anywhere outside of their own borders

• Americans eat nothing but T-bone steaks and baked potatoes (I wish)

• Americans only listen to American music

English:

• British 'cuisine' is hideous

• All British like to beat up on the Irish and the Scots (actually, this might be true)

• British have less rhythm than Americans (Massive Attack)

• British women are partially-shaved sasquatches

• British wear monocles

One thing i've found interesting while travelling is comparing which minority each industrialized First Worlder has a unsavory-labor symbiotic relationship with: U.S.: Mexicans, Latinos UK: Pakistani, Indians Germany: Poles, East Germans, Japan: Thai, Filipino, misc. Malays.

I guess there are no negative stereotypes of us Americans. We must be perfect in every way Everyone loves Americans!

... spoke too soon.

Too hilarious Hannett!

From Hannett to Eternity wrote:

English:

• All British like to beat up on the Irish and the Scots (actually, this might be true)

the scots are british!

AgentWood wrote:

From Hannett to Eternity wrote:

English:

• All British like to beat up on the Irish and the Scots (actually, this might be true)

the scots are british!

Act of Union, 1707 notwithstanding.

From Hannett to Eternity wrote:

AgentWood wrote:

From Hannett to Eternity wrote:

English:

• All British like to beat up on the Irish and the Scots (actually, this might be true)

the scots are british!

Act of Union, 1707 notwithstanding.

when i lived in scotland the vast majority of scots i met defined themselves as both scottish and british.

just don't call all british 'english' or they'll give you a nice glasgow kiss!

Hands up all yanks who would love to be British.

Not if it's true what they say about your women and their lack of interest in ... er ... "intimacy".

LE Roberts wrote:

Hands up all yanks who would love to be British.

Not if it's true what they say about your women and their lack of interest in ... er ... "intimacy".

it may be true for the women (wouldn't know), but certainly not for the men!

Not true. A nooler called Moz is also a snob and he's not even British.

Well Maya, you know what I would say to you right now... and how much...?

. .. .... ... ....!!!

LE Roberts wrote:

Hands up all yanks who would love to be British.

Not if it's true what they say about your women and their lack of interest in ... er ... "intimacy".

Aaaaah the ignorance....Not that Brit girls need sticking up for But this one is ridiculous I find them to be the most passionate lovers I've known and i've known,er, only British girls intimatly...But seriously, its like saying "The French show a clear lack of interest in garlic"British girls may well have invented intimacy,Who knows? They are certainly well versed in it.Who ever said they ar'nt Knows nish....

michael brown wrote:

LE Roberts wrote:

Hands up all yanks who would love to be British.

Not if it's true what they say about your women and their lack of interest in ... er ... "intimacy".

I find them to be the most passionate lovers I've known and i've known,er, only British girls intimatly.

reminds me of those americans who say that america is the best country in the world--but who have never ventured outside her borders!

Spotnick wrote:

AgentWood wrote:

michael brown wrote:

LE Roberts wrote:

Hands up all yanks who would love to be British.

Not if it's true what they say about your women and their lack of interest in ... er ... "intimacy".

I find them to be the most passionate lovers I've known and i've known,er, only British girls intimatly.

reminds me of those americans who say that america is the best country in the world--but who have never ventured outside her borders!

That's because they are told so Christy...!

Sure, there is usually no place like home, and I don't feel I'd adapt easily anywhere else, but it's common sense to think you live in the best country on earth when you live in any country of the G7 (don't count Russia there!)... not sure about people from outside those countries though, let's ask them ;)

I know I love my country, but I could easily trade our winters to another country :p and we're the most taxed people in North America!

On the other hand, I don't have access to medical or dental care.

And because I'm out of student loan money (yeah, in the "greatest country on earth," you have to borrow money to go to uni), and can't find a job in this b.s. Republican "jobless recovery," I have SERIOUS doubts about being able to have a home long enough to write the one paper I need to finish to get my degree.

While only about 10% of the American population is gay, the British population has more than double that (22.5%).

Perhaps its in their water...

Hey, can an American please tell me if you know that Brits and Australians spell some words differently? We are very aware of the US spelling for things, because we have to be (eg default spellchecker is US English etc), but you guys don't, so I wondered if it's something you ever notice...

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I'm very happy today for no reason!

American: color English: colour

Right?

US: glamor UK: glamour (although many americans spell it with a 'u')

US; flavor UK: flavour

what's even more confusing are the different words:

US: french fries UK: chips

US: chips UK: crisps

US: hood (of car) UK: bonnet

US: truck UK: lorry

US: trunk (of car) UK: boot

and on and on and on....

ALSO: when i lived in the UK, one of the first things i noticed was that speakers of the queen's english don't use the collective singular. for example:

US: the government IS passing a new bill today. UK: the government ARE passing a new bill today.

there are many other grammatical differences, as well. when i was writing my masters' thesis (in the UK) i had a terrible time with that damn grammar check on microsoft word. by the time i came back to the US i had the same problem--going the other direction!

Tinny wrote: I'm very happy today for no reason!

:D

US: Poser UK: Chav

Getting kicked in the fanny is a probably more painful in the UK.

Rian wrote: American: color English: colour

Right?

Yeah, there's also the American "Favorite" and the English "Favourite" though whenever I used the English spelling of words like that at school, I was never penalized for doing so, which is nice.

Seeing that photo of that skank Thatcher on the Who do you hate thread reminded me of another one: whore, and whoure.

James Thomas wrote: Getting kicked in the fanny is a probably more painful in the UK.

You would think so

some other words that caouse cofusion are fag, and pissed.

Ah didvided by a common language.

Spotnick wrote:

AgentWood wrote: US: french fries UK: chips

US: chips UK: crisps

You just solved 4 years of mystery...

Of course, in french, there is no "french" in fries, but still.. I wasn't aware the brits were calling them chips, hence why fish'n'chip is titled that way ;)

pommes frites, oui?

'french' is actually a verb, having to do with how the potatoes are cut--in thin strips.

this fact was lost on the idiotic right-wing congressmen who proposed changing 'french fries' to 'freedom fries' after the french refused to back the iraq war.

rooting

Oh and me last summer going on about how hot it was and that we should be allowed go to work in thongs!

t

I'm a supporter of thongs for the ladies

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.... thongs..........

i find thongs gross.

:p

looks like an other thread about "do you defend your hometown"

AgentWood wrote:

Spotnick wrote:

AgentWood wrote: US: french fries UK: chips

US: chips UK: crisps

You just solved 4 years of mystery...

Of course, in french, there is no "french" in fries, but still.. I wasn't aware the brits were calling them chips, hence why fish'n'chip is titled that way ;)

pommes frites, oui?

'french' is actually a verb, having to do with how the potatoes are cut--in thin strips.

this fact was lost on the idiotic right-wing congressmen who proposed changing 'french fries' to 'freedom fries' after the french refused to back the iraq war.

a good thing to be said. because everyone on earth knowns that fries - frites, come from BELGIUM. So, it has nothing to do with us, the ugly French... althought I used to think that we stole them from the Belgians in order to be more popular in the world... part of one of our stereotypes, erm...

But we HAD A GOOD LAUGH here when Americans changed french-fries to freedom-fries...

A last word...

I visited once an English friend of mine who used to live in America. We were talking about the difference between the American accent and the British one, when he told me : what if the process of history had been upside-down ? Americans would speak French like Canadians and Québécois would speak like Brits...

Us British....we won the war but we lost our teeth!!

Spotnick wrote: Sure, there is usually no place like home, and I don't feel I'd adapt easily anywhere else, but it's common sense to think you live in the best country on earth when you live in any country of the G7 (don't count Russia there!)... not sure about people from outside those countries though, let's ask them ;)

Lol. It's always the Canadians who waffle on about being in the G7! They're probably the most insignificant player there. There are countries outside the G7 with far more economic clout than the Canadians. And it's hardly a measure of quality of life.

Let's face it. As amusing as they are, almost all national stereotypes are crap. Americans say British men are pansies. I defy any of you to go say that to the terraces at a Milwall game. British say Americans are NFL-loving, burger-chomping uncultured rednecks. Tell that to Patrick.

The sad thing is, as communication technologies continue to open the world up, we're becoming more and more alike each day.

Now let me go and clear the 'roos out of my back yard.

:\pimp3:

Hannett of the Apes wrote: US: Poser UK: Chav

Don't know if this is accurate.

Perhaps a chav is closer to your "suburban white trash".

:\pimp3:

well what about the stereotypes within brittain itself.?? most northerners think that all southerners drink in wine bars,wear cardigans tied around their necks and are almost all GAY. whilst southerners think that all northerners wear cloth caps and clogs and breed ferrets. then you get to the local level? around here its a standing joke that all wiganers are thick,well fuck it they are. pie eating bastards:D

Spotnick wrote:

AgentWood wrote: US: french fries UK: chips

US: chips UK: crisps

You just solved 4 years of mystery...

Of course, in french, there is no "french" in fries, but still.. I wasn't aware the brits were calling them chips, hence why fish'n'chip is titled that way ;)

It has to be said that UK's chips have very little in common with the genuine fries (frites) as you can find them in Belgium. Come to Brussels and buy some frites with mayonnaise (and certainly not mostard!) at la Friterie du Miroir on the Place Reine Astrid (aka Place du Miroir) in Jette. You'll understand what I mean.