I'm a black woman and I've heard about a million sterotypes growing up in Kentucky. I think my favorite one is the "chicken and watermelon one". I do like chicken but that's because it's cheap and versatile (i'm a pretty good cook.) but I'm allergic to watermelon. Serioulsy, It gives me hives. So whenever the watermelon thing comes up I just tell them that and get a little kick out of the shocked look on the person's face. It used to bother me, but I just shrug it off now.
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Your fave stereotype about yourself
Heh, I like how this has become slightly about our fave stereotypes that we transcend.
Eh, I've had a lot of those:
One was being a long haired hippy looking artist fellow who was really into WAR! Ha, that was YEARS ago, I grew into the way I looked though because now I think war is quite evil.
Secondly, I tend to look rather scruffy usually, that's just the way I am, but I also tend to be quite knowledgeable on most things and able to discuss specialist topics with anyone, from miners to bankers, soldiers, bakers, accountants, scientists… people find that surprising given how I appear. That used to be annoying, now I ignore it.
I fit into quite a few stereotypes! Let's break 'em down a bit, eh? :D
Firstly, I'm American. Thus, I'm fat, stupid, lazy, uneducated, couldn't place myself on a map(much less a globe), and apparently ignorant on whole.
Secondly, well, I'm Fat(So I do fit some of the American stereotype, hahah…hah). Thus, again, I'm lazy, don't exercise, overeat, eat only fast food, have diabetes, am needlessly cruel to thin people by taking up more than the tiny little seats they provide on the bus/train/airplane/etc, and clearly am so unaware of the fact that I'm fat(and all the things listed above) and deserve constant shaming for those things. :D Yay!
Thirdly, I'm a pagan, formerly Wiccan(I still have some Wiccan beliefs). THIS means that I'm, again, ignorant of reality, weird, crazy, a Satanist, obsessed with tree-hugging and Light, vegetarian–no, no, wait, VEGAN!– and clearly do weird love spells and curses. Oh, and I'm a teenager, I suppose.
Stereotypes are fun! :D
I drive a semi for a living… T__T
However… I don't listen to country music (My iPod currently has the Beatles, Arctic Monkeys, Amy Winehouse, Snoop Dogg and RUN DMC on it…), I don't have "Git R Done" registered in my common vocabulary or plastered on my truck, I don't chew tobacco, I don't like NASCARR, I don't own a single pair of bib overalls and I'm not a bigot (I berate them when they start saying "nigger" or "boy" over the CB, which is at least once a week. :/ ).
While it's true that many of these are adopted southern-American stereotypes, they are what people think of when you tell them, "I drive a truck."
I can speak "trucker" though. I know what someone means when they say, "There's a full grown at the 143 over 8 yardstick with a customer and the chicken coop is locked up tight your way." or "There's a meat wagon in the hammer lane, coming up your back door with its disco lights going. Up ahead at the cash box, there's a plain white wrapper staring you in the face." (Honestly, I don't know why some guys bother getting radar detectors… we know where the cops are miles before we ever see them.)
Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario.I'm "from the R.O."…
… an occasional "eh" does slip out.
I also say "eh" or "ey" all the time. I can also spot someone from Detroit from a mile away… because they say Detroit, not Detroit.
Biscuit chunks in gravy?biscuits and gravyYou had better not mean dipping biscuits in gravy…
I mean biscuits crumbled up in gravy.^^ Mmmm, Mom's cooking is ridiculously tasty.
(Actually Mom's is the only gravy I really LOVE. I can stand some restaurants with it but no one else makes it as brilliant as hers.)
…
*Insert picture of someone vomiting here*
Soft flaky buttermilk biscuits typically served at breakfast, not the type you're thinking of Crocty. What you call biscuits we call cookies.
I've always loved american steriotypes of Britain. You guys crack me up XD
What I'll never get used to is American accents though. 0_o You hear 'em on tv because you Americans make about 9/10ths of the worlds tv, but whenever I hear an american's voice that I've been speaking to on the net it's just freaky.
How can you think we have funny accents when the english accent is so horribly normal? XD
I live in Alaska (born and raised) so people think that we live in igloos, ride dog-sleds and have polar bears for pet (or hunt them).
They're shocked to hear that… Yes we do have houses, supermarkets, fast-foods, plumbing, electricity and all things modern. I've heard stories from people in army that they were upset when told that they would be sent to Alaska because they belive that they will have to use outhouses in -40 winter and suchs. One woman told me she cried and cried before coming here to discover that everything she belived was false. LOL
Talk about ignorance.
Also, people thinks that because I'm a redhead, I have a nasty temper or had a dealing with the devil.
Well, If you want to indulge in fun stereotypes….
As a gay man, my people are supposed to always be well dressed and have a fabulous interior design sense. We spend every dime we have on white parties and travel and have carefree lives of dancing and drinking. All straight woman want to go dancing with us and all straight men wished they could get laid as easy as us. And if Queer as Folk is accurate, everyone gay man in Pittsburgh is model level hot! (grin!)
Lessee, I've spent my most recent years (see: the past decade) in the south-eastern US (Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina), "the South", as it's called.
Therefore,
I drink sweet tea/ ice tea with every meal (the stuff you can cut with a knife)
I can't spell
My accent should be really twangy and I should talk really slowly
At least one person in my family should have a mullet
I should drive a truck (so I can put my dog/tractor/kids/house in the back)
My aunt, cousin, grandma, parents or some close relative should live within walking distance of my place of residence
I'm a white southerner, so I should probably be a bigot
I should know when and what the most recent hunting season begins and ends but not be able to point out any city on a map unless my favorite hunting spot is there.
Every other thing I eat should be deep fried. They have deep fried candy bars down here. Is that normal? I can't bring myself to try one. Repulsive.
I do have all my teeth, actually.
I'm not that loud.
I am overweight though.
And I can't stand country music. *sings*"mah daaaaaaaawg raaan off with mah wyyyyyyfffe in mah truck and wrecked it into a tree, and now I believe mah only recourse is to drown mahself in bourbon"*sings*
Hmm, I could go on.
All the southerners here want to tell me I'm from Boston (or somewhere north (of the Mason Dixon line)) because of my accent, but most northerners complain that my accent's too twangy. But really my accent isn't either since I was an army brat, and what with bouncing around Europe, and staying in Germany for a good part of my early youth.
"You live in Canada? So do you like live in an igloo?"
"of course ^^"
"So do you like have internets and electricity?"
"Oh no no…I'm talking to you through a high tech etch-a-sketch"
"ohhhh cool!" O.o
I think it's kind of cute when some people think we live with polar bears ^^" …really sad when they live in the same province though. (Alberta)
Well, I'm from South Caroliny and I generally avoid wearing shoes unless I have to.
Letsee, I'm lanky, wear glasses, well spoken, absent minded and have crazy hair, so people assume that I'm some kind of genius. That's not to say I'm dumb, but I'm not sure I'm smart as people think I am, but I readily propagate the assumption.
So, I'm black and southern, don't speak Ebonics (I prefer classy slang from past decades), don't like to eat fried chicken too much, am not anyone's baby's daddy, don't particularly live in any ghetto, not particularly fond of amassing bling, refering to women as hoes, carrying a piece or pimpin anything much less hoes and rides.
I do however have a fondness for kool-aid not oft put to prose, and a passion for early nineties hip-hop and baggy clothing most of which bears a camoflauge pattern.
Also, I very much propagate stereotypes of black people enjoying classical music, opera, ballet, classical literature, cultral diversity, philosophy and treating women with equal respect.
I'm Canadian
I drink vast amounts of Canadian beer and eat whale for breakfast. I live in a igloo and have to scavenge the harsh frozen tundra for prey. Instead of cars we ride on bobsleds and walk around in snowshoes. Every once and a while a polar bear wanders into our territory and we have to fight it with our mighty spears! Canada is awesome!
LOL
I have to say I hate myself for having red hair. NOT because of the constant teasing from small children…
…just because when someone foreign sees me, they already assume I'm wearing some sort of tartan, I know how to play the bagpipes and I eat haggis for dinner every night. XD
I think the red-head is the only thing that is stereotypical of me for a scottish girl, EVEN if the recent statistics actually say that only 11% of the scottish population are red-headed. XD
being italian I only eat pizza or spaghetti, I have long black mustache, I play the mandolin singing 'O sole mio' all the time, I'm a mafia member, I wear Armani, I'm a wino and I rabidly gesticulate when I'm speaking (ok, this one's true: we DO gesticulate a lot). oh, and I speak like this guy.
anyway, I find stereotypes on italians rather funny unless they're the overly abused 'Don Vito' mafia stuff. me and my cotenants laughed to the tears watching the Simpsons' episode of the trip to Italy
Let's see… living in Seattle must mean that I binge-drink coffee, love standing in the rain, work at Microsoft or Boeing, and bang my head to Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
…
OK, so I do drink a lot of coffee. lol!
And we don't have British accents… *cough*Fraiser*cough*
I'm from Portland Oregon, so the stereotypes are pretty similar and some of those are actually true for me. I go out in the rain a lot, routinely poison myself with coffee, and I like grunge music.
There's some other ones that are more unique to Oregon:
We eat nothing but granola
Everyone smokes a lot of weed
we're all outdoorsy
None of us have jobs
Most of those are only partly true….
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