Europeans, North Americans, and Down Under Folk: What Are the Comparisons?

[Sunstone]

How do Europeans, North Americans, and Down Under folk compare with each other? What are the similarities? What are the differences? Who has the best inflatable love dolls?

Please note: If anyone wants to compare folks from other parts of the world too, besides Europe, North America, and Down Under, that would be very cool. I just couldn't get everybody included in one thread title.

 

[Djamila]

Please, no one take offense to any of this. It's all stereotypes and if you try very hard to not say anything crass, you'd never be able to carrying on a discussion as this one.

That said, here is what I find to be the stereotypes.

Western European: Somewhat short, clean, wealthy, devoid of any true passion, sullen, artistic, underfed, intellectual, secular, and with very dull tastes in fashion.

Eastern European: Somewhat tall, dirty, poor, full of passion for life, lively, vulgar, common, overweight by 30, stupid, religious, and with very bright and colorful tastes in fashion.

Southern European: Lets just say I'm biased.

Canadian: Unarmed Americans with health insurance. Kidding - peace-loving, friendly, all of that. It's why they make US tourists in Europe wear Canadian flags on their backpacks.

American: Horribly ignorent of just about everything in the world, horrible education system, freedom loving, generous, gullable, overweight, religious fanatics in the middle and liberals on both coasts.

Australian: Europe's rubbish that ended up doing pretty well for themselves. An accent that reminds us of Britons with autism. Not a large gene pool, everyone is blonde and buff.

North Africans: Short, Arab, travel in groups, women are always 10 times better looking than their husbands, great music and food, great ice-cream, don't dare say you're from France while visiting, extremely hospitable, don't like to be referred to as 'African'. "We're the southern Mediterranean, far more in common with the rest of Southern Europe than with Sub-Saharan Africa!")

 

[Capt. Haddock]

Here is a handy chart of what European nations supposedly think of each other.

http://www.exile.ru/151/materials/europeans-chart.html

It's quite an amusing read. SDD=Short, dark and dirty. NRE= Not Really European, CHTL= Can't hold their liquor!

...and might I just add that Latvians are fork-tongued, devious and evil schemers who secretly rule the world. (and they're cheap tippers, too!)

North Americans have hairy noses.

Australians eat pet hamsters.

Samoan women have horizontal pudenda.

Laotians are Luxemburgers in disguise.

Canadians are Paraguayans in denial.

and the best inflatable love dolls come from South Korea.

 

[sahra-t]

Someone will quote it at some point, so it may as well be me;

Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.

 

[Mr. Hair]

Someone will quote it at some point, so it may as well be me;

I think you mean [SIZE=-1]George Bernard Shaw[/SIZE], given that neither political entity existed when old Bill was popping clogs.

(It certainly woke me up though )

 

[Quoth The Raven]

Australian: Europe's rubbish that ended up doing pretty well for themselves. An accent that reminds us of Britons with autism. Not a large gene pool, everyone is blonde and buff.

Congratulations...you've got the skegs down, now what about the rest of the population.
Oh, and Cappy, they're not hamsters, they're possums.

Canadians...not very bright and they say 'Eh' a lot. Like Queenslanders from a cold climate.

Europe in it's entirity consists of soap dodgers.

America...if your tv is representative, the majority of your population is either a cop, a lawyer, someone in forensics or a televangelist. The rest are grooming their children for a guest spot on some frightening yet somehow fascinating show akin to Springer, where they will take their shoes off and have at each other, remove items of their clothing for the edification of the audience, and after spilling their guts about the evil they have done, will sit there at question time and berate the hostile audience with cries of ,'Shaddap! Ya'll don't know me!':areyoucra

 

[tcprowling]

What Quoth said

 

[Booko]

America...if your tv is representative, the majority of your population is either a cop, a lawyer, someone in forensics or a televangelist. The rest are grooming their children for a guest spot on some frightening yet somehow fascinating show akin to Springer, where they will take their shoes off and have at each other, remove items of their clothing for the edification of the audience, and after spilling their guts about the evil they have done, will sit there at question time and berate the hostile audience with cries of ,'Shaddap! Ya'll don't know me!':areyoucra

Thankfully, the teevee is not representative. It never has been, since I can recall.

 

[Capt. Haddock]

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America...if your tv is representative, the majority of your population is either a cop, a lawyer, someone in forensics or a televangelist.

...and if the TV is representative, said cops and people in forensics can afford to live in multimillion dollar homes in Los Angeles, just as unemployed twenty something actors can afford to live in chic Manhattan lofts.