How can someone be from the US and not know anything about different US accents?
Because I don't go anywhere.
sucks.
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Americans?????
Perhaps the fault is here in this thread for making "Americans" sound like some homogeneous whole. I'm pretty sure they're not.Pretty sure that's the whole problem here. People often consider their own group as diverse and "other" groups as homogeneous. (It's called "outgroup homogeneity bias." )
Americans are generally good, honest people. It's really hard to tag a stereotype to the American people, just because we're so diverse. The only thing you can say about an American that'll apply to more than 10% of the population at best is that we are American.
I think we have a reputation for rudeness in Europe because, well, most of us haven't been there. It costs a lot for an American to go anywhere in Europe, and generally, when you guys see an American it's almost alway somebody that has quite a bit of money to toss around. Usually, when you see an American with a lot of money, either in Europe or the US, they're fat and rude. That's true of most rich people anywhere.
We actually had an incident with some English guys at a mall I was working at. They were screaming up and down the mall, cursing at store managers and the maintenance guy because they were asked to put on a coat or a sweater to cover up a profane word one of them had on their shirt. Now, I'm okay with profanity. But the mall is supposed to be set up as a family location, and there are a number of signs at the entrances that do say not to, among other things, wear clothing with profanity on it, or use profanity loudly. Not only were they cursing at the top of their lungs, but they were also disrespecting the country as a whole, calling the US a "shithole", among other things.
So, yeah. Everybody can be pretty rude, just depends on you getting the assholes.
what about wisconsin dialect? or the bronx accent? there's plenty of differentiations in us citizens' speech. i heard somewhere that if you travel fifty miles in any direction in the united states, there is a notable change in accent. not only that, but also speech patterns, and vocabulary. and in some cases, general intelligence.
Isn't it in the Southern states they talk slower than Northen states? I think on of my teachers tolled me that was true, but I'm not so sure about it. I would check, but I'm to lazy to go all the way down south just to see if its true or not.
But the whole accent and dialect thing has to be true. With immgrants coming in from other countries all the time, accents and dialect has to mix in. Kinda like Bugs Bunny New York/Bostonish accent. *Greatest. Accent. EVER.*
I live in mississippi, and i visited new york one summer and was shocked by how many weird looks we got. It turns out that the mississippi accent is generally the slowest, most long drawn out words and overexaggerated sentences in the whole country. I found that i could not understand the New Yorkers because they talked so fast compared to what I'm used too.
Oh, and this is a blatant generalzation, but the southern states are generally poorer but more hospitable, but how would i know?
Honestly the rudeness is not the collective of America.
Its certain groups of people in America who feel the need to walk around and yell and shout as though they are important…but this is not the majority.
As to traffic being bad as Kyupol advised…um… I have been to countries where the traffic is much worse!
Ah-ha! Thanks, worstcase, the mystery is partially solved!
Oh, and this is a blatant generalzation, but the southern states are generally poorer but more hospitable, but how would i know?
As U.S. of A. southerners are generally acknowledged to be poorer but more polite than northerners then the chances are good that the Cartoonprofessor's bad eggs were obnoxious rich people from Yankee land.
This is logic from that reliable old standard that maintains that since dogs can sit up and will beg for food and do have fur and do bark, therefore that sleek, wet, furred critter currently dripping water, sitting up, begging for food, and barking must be a dog, even if it does smell of fish and look mysteriously like a seal.
But aren't those also the ones demonised in "Deliverance" and then there's a history of "racial" intolerance in those parts…
Nothing is ever simple lol!
But that's the same everywhere, in all countries.
Except in England because we have a lot of experience being around people we despise (the Welsh, the Scots, the Irish, everybody who has kicked our collective arse over the years, everybody else, other Englishmen, our mothers), we're amazingly tolerant in that respect.
The movie makers have it right…everything between New york and L.A. is Fly over country…nothing to see out here…hahaha.
just leatherface, Jason and Freddy…and Dr.Satan.
the rest of us merikans iz just a buncha Loud mouth flag wavein, cross totin' idjits.
hyuhk hyuhk.
What ever.
yep,just keep on underestimating the general public.
A'yup, 'ere ink Kansas I routinely ride tornadoes to get around town. They're fairly easy to lasso, Pecos Bill was a pushover. (Pecos Bill is a local american folk hero, famed for lassoing a tornado, and marrying Susanna Sue.)
This is what my neck of the woods looks like right now, some say it's flyover territory, but I think it's beautiful. 
-Wing
Hmm… a question for those who live outside of America… do you automatically assume bad things about American tourists? I don't think people are obnoxious assholes until they start acting like obnoxious assholes but I don't know how other people feel about it(Otherwise I should just say I'm from Canada, eh?)
And that really is a nice picture Wingnut. There's no wide open skies like that in the northeast. The kind of people who call places flyover territory aren't really looking.
America has so much diverse everything it's crazy. (But that would apply for all countries wouldn't it?)
I've heard reports about the USA:
- has sexist laws (that favour the female gender) far worse than Canada but slightly better than the UK.
- has legions of homeless/jobless/or just dirt poor people in the streets
- has a high crime rate. As a result of the skyrocketing poverty of course. :(
- has a high wage gap where the fat cats make $400 for every $1 their rank and file workers make.
- has a high rate of government and business corruption.
- at least 100 people in the USA die or get injured by guns everyday.
- is a police state that can kill 3000 of its own citizens to justify their enslavement.
- has hundreds of secret prisons being constructed
- is the most dog-eat-dog society on earth
- has hundreds of thousands of people on prozac or having mental disorders
- is a very lucrative market for drugs.
and last but not the least:
- has sold the whole planet earth to the Greys and Reptilians. lol!
If all the above are true, then I think that explains American 'rudeness'. I think I'll morph into my most assholeic state under those conditions. lol!
spot on !! why anyone would want to move to live there is confusing to me
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