What Stereotypes Do You Fit/Not Fit?

[sgt. Pepper]

Large breasts! Sorry lol.

Well, i'm a guy so i don't have breasts.

 

[Brooker]

Really ? Then tell me please where the bad british teeth came from ?

With things like having bad teeth, it's just a matter of it not being valued by the culture to take good care of their teeth (by brushing frequently, going to the dentist, getting braces, etc.) Americans have a reputation for being obsessive about their teeth, and it may be a little true. It seems Americans get braces more than most other countries (all my friends had them, so did I). And recently many Americans have become obsessed with teeth whitening.

In some countries, a lack of good teeth might just be because of a lack of descent health care. Don't think that's the case with England. And I'm not saying that all English have bad teeth, but I've definitely seen a few who fit the stereotype.

 

[Brooker]

Well, i'm a guy so i do'nt have breasts.

Your avatar is misleading. I keep picturing you as a hot, tall, blond, Swedish chick with cleavage you could ski down.

 

[lexico]

But still ...

I am a native Texan.
-- I do not ride a horse.
-- I love to eat foods of a wide variety of ethnic and national origin.
-- I am very adept at eating with chopsticks, and I do not require a menu in English.
-- Water is my favorite beverage
-- I do not own a cowboy hat or a belt with a big silver buckle.
-- I do not smoke.
-- I have no desire to hurt anyone, but I thoroughly believe that I could and would kill in self defense.
-- I tend to ignore noisy and arrogant people.

-- I do own a gun; I keep it clean and in good condition, but have not fired it in many years.
-- I do own a pair of cowboy boots, but they are almost 30 years old, and I seldom wear them any more.
-- I sometimes like eating barbeque beef brisket and pork ribs, corn bread, pinto beans, and greens with a tall glass of unsweetened ice tea, which usually evokes memories of a warm Texas breeze and blue bonnet covered rolling hills.

You could qualify for a well seasoned cowboy who stopped ridin', lost his hat and silver buckle, quit smokin', good manner'd, cool with the naughties, stopped shootin', stopped bootin', but still likes his outdoor barbeque over a tall glass of unsweetened ice tea ?

Edit: Cool avatar, Bob. Makes me want to watch Predator again.

 

[sgt. Pepper]

Your avatar is misleading. I keep picturing you as a hot, tall, blond, Swedish chick with cleavage you could ski down.

Sorry to dissapoint you, but i'm an average looking guy, who sits in front of the computer all day.

But now i'm going to change to a picture of me instead, confusion be gone!

And the woman on the avatar was Mira Sorvino, actress.

 

[Bob in Iowa]

You could qualify for a well seasoned cowboy who stopped ridin', lost his hat and silver buckle, quit smokin', good manner'd, cool with the naughties, stopped shootin', stopped bootin', but still likes his outdoor barbeque over a tall glass of unsweetened ice tea ?

Actually, I prefer not to make any pretense toward ever having been a cowboy. I was a city kid from Dallas, and having gone to college with several fellows who genuinely were cowboys, I tend to have respect for them and disdain for pretenders thereof. As for the hat and silver buckle, if I wear a hat, I much prefer a baseball cap, and I never entered a rodeo event, therefore never earned a buckle. A good pair of handmade cowboy boots are just really comfortable, and albeit infreqently, I still wear mine. As for the gun, it belonged to my father. When I was a young boy, he taught me how to handle firearms with skill and safety. Although I have no interest in using the weapon, I keep it, and cleaning it brings back pleasant memories of my dad.

One other stereotype that I forgot to mention is that I do not drop the 'g' from words ending in 'ing'. I thank my second grade teacher, Mrs. Page, for her tenacity in discouraging me from indulging that speech mannerism at the age of seven. I do, however, often differentiate the singular and plural second person pronoun by saying you all or the contraction y'all when addressing more than one person.

 

[Sensuikan San]

Stereotypes I fit/don't fit ? I'm expatriate British - of Anglo-Irish descent which complicates it a little, but here goes ....

I loathe cricket (...it's like watching paint dry ...!)

Can't stand soccer/football (Just cannot see what all the fuss is about - all the players should get 'Oscars' ... and the fans have always seemed to behave like Ghengis Khan's warriors on a bad day !)

I do (these days) prefer tea to coffee, except after a really good dinner and at breakfast.

I still have (nearly) all of my own teeth (albeit, a little tobacco stained ...)

I don't have any particular fondness for "our dear Queen" - or her (totally disfunctional)family - I'm a proud "English Republican".

I moan about everything - especially the weather - but I live in Canada .... and so do they ......and, understandabley so.

I smoke - but prefer French or American "fags" .... (in that order).

I prefer beer to wine or spirits. (...But love Sake..!) and seek out and search for things like "fish 'n chips", cornish pasties, Branston pickle, hot mustard, steak and kidney pies, etc. etc. .......

and .... I wear cowboy boots all the time .....

You work it out .... !

Regards,

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[Brooker]

It seems the "stereotypical" American is the Conservative, religious, Texan cowboy who drives a huge gas guzzling truck with a gun rack in the back window. So, compared to that, I'm not "stereotypical" of an American at all. But I do fit many of the stereotypes of a West-Coaster. It seems at present, America is broken into two camps (red and blue?) and for the blue camp, I'm pretty normal. Why is it that the red camp seems to be defining the stereotypes? Maybe it's because they're a little more extreme.

I was thinking about the fact that I'm not very religious. Now you would think that would be NOT-stereotypical of an American. But, for where I live, it's completely stereotypical, so which column does that trait go into?

Oh, here's a "don't fit"... I like tea, and almost never drink coffee. The tea I usually drink is Chinese green tea or British Earl Grey.

 

[lexico]

Religion is boo-boo, but since you ask ...

for the blue camp, I'm pretty normal. Why is it that the red camp seems to be defining the stereotypes? Maybe it's because they're a little more extreme.

I was thinking about the fact that I'm not very religious. Now you would think that would be NOT-stereotypical of an American. But, for where I live, it's completely stereotypical, so which column does that trait go into?

I looked up the wiki dictionary to be sure, and, it said, etymologically, "The word stereotype originated in the world of printing; it was originally a duplicate impression of an original typographical element, used for printing instead of the original. Over time, this became a metaphor for any set of ideas repeated identically, en masse, with no changes. In fact, cliché and stereotype were both originally printers' words, and in their literal printers' meanings were synonymous. Specifically, cliché was an onomatopoetic word for the sound that was made during the stereotyping process when the matrix hit molten metal."

To answer your question properly, I would like to take the liberty, by expanding on your color metaphor, of employing the etymological archetype of offset printing; i.e. I would like to work with two substereotypes so as to properly print the finished page profiling Brooker. The red stereotypes do show zeal for institutional matters, and how they might look in front of the ecclesiates, the congregation, more than spirituality in a dark room. According to this distortion of reality, they love God's words, but don't know the bible any more than what the preacher preaches and comments on. They fear God's wrath, but fear the will of the justified peers more than God itself.

The blue stereotypes are likewise stigmatized by the internalized pressure to disagree with obvious streams of indoctrination, which prevents them from attending religious services unless it involves the baptism, bar mitzva, marriage, or funeral of a close one. They still hold a strong sense of awe or aversion before what is unexplainable, what is irrational, what is unimaginably evil, or good, but know that confessing such might be considered uncool, or below themselves as civilized people of the 21st century. That's called spirituality as opposed to belonging to an organized religion, but in a distorted way. So basically what's on the surface does not transparently convey what's beneath it. In this sense, mac might consider it atypical whereas I would consider it typical, in the two-colored stereotypes of red and blue.

Oh, here's a "don't fit"... I like tea, and almost never drink coffee. The tea I usually drink is Chinese green tea or British Earl Grey.

I don't know about Earl Grey, but as for Chinese green tea, I'll tell you you're headed for the bad teeth ... one Chinese told me so with so many examples of personal knowledge. But maybe with the American obsession, you might be spared. O, one thing about the whitener, is it safe in the long term ? Here I go again for another hot thread !

 

[Brooker]

I don't know about Earl Grey, but as for Chinese green tea, I'll tell you you're headed for the bad teeth ...

I don't know, I'm sure there are many things that are worse for your teeth than green tea, like cola for example. And I would think the reason Chinese people might have bad teeth is probably due mostly to factors other than green tea.

O, one thing about the whitener, is it safe in the long term ? Here I go again for another hot thread !

I've never used it. My cousin used it when she was a kid and something went wrong and it permanently stained her teeth. Kind of counterproductive, ne?

 

[HomicidalMouse]

I seem to have started a strange tooth fixation... How rare.

 

[Bob in Iowa]

Edit: Cool avatar, Bob. Makes me want to watch Predator again.

I never thought of it that way, but that does make sense. I did enjoy the movie Predator, and it starred two of my favorite entertainer/governors, Ahnold and Jesse. The avatar is actually an enhanced pic of me that my wife took in an airport last summer while we were returning home from a beach vacation in Mexico.

 

[epigene]

Wow! This thread has turned very interestiing! Okay, looks like I have to add my two yen:

Stereotype I don't fit (as a Japanese obasan):
I don't take English conversation classes as the local "culture school." (I'm not into the "lifelong learning" boom here in Japan. I'd rather lie down and watch a movie. )
I hate to cram into seats on the train.
I don't like gossip.
I love Southeast Asian cuisine. (Old ladies don't like "smelly" foods.)
I've known how to use a PC and the Internet for the past two decades. (Most people in my age group got their PCs in the past 5 or so years.)
I don't like to travel overseas in a group tour. (Traveled like that to Hong Kong once and hated it.)
I don't like to go to "bargain sales" at department stores.
I don't wear perfume.
I love Discovery Channel & National Geographic Channel & Star Trek!

Stererotype that fit:
I wear comfortable walking shoes.
I ride my bike to go to supermarkets.
I turn over the plastic trays at supermarkets to check that I'm not getting any decayed vegetables.
I watch the girl at the cashier punching the keys, so she doesn't make mistakes.
I use all my one-yen and five-yen coins to pay for purchases.
I love the four seasons in Japan. (I KNOW other countries have four seasons, but the Japanese make a fuss every change in season and have lots of terms and expressions related to seasons.)
I like watching the two-hour murder mysteries on Japanese TV. (Very stress-free type of entertainment! )

PS: About green tea (probably including Chinese green tea), it has a substance called "catechin" which is actually good in fighting tooth decay and is an effective anti-carcinogen. It's so fashionable now, there is catechin in lots of food products and even toothpaste.

Doctors recommend not only drinking green tea but also eating the leaves.

 

[Doc]

I forgot add one stereotype that I do fit in for people in the Midwest, I AM A SEVERE GUN NUT. If I could marry a gun I would. I love them that much, espeically handguns. ^_____^

My favorite gun of all time! ^_____________________________^

Doc:ramen:

 

[Sensuikan San]

: The avatar is actually an enhanced pic of me that my wife took in an airport last summer while we were returning home from a beach vacation in Mexico.

I've been planning to go to Mexico for years !

...But if that's what it does for you .....!

No way, Jose !



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[Mycernius]

I forgot add one stereotype that I do fit in for people in the Midwest, I AM A SEVERE GUN NUT. If I could marry a gun I would. I love them that much, espeically handguns. ^_____^

Doc:ramen:

I thought all Midwest Americans where gun nuts and married to them?
"It's either the colt or me Biily Ray"
"Goodbye Mary Sue"

 

[Shas]

Well ... half German half Polish:

What i fit in:
- German: Well. I'm German and im 2 M (6'7""). And I got blue eyes. Heh.
- German: I like Sauerkraut
- German: I like Beer
- German: I like to be on time
- German: I like others to be on time
- German: The best is only good enough hehe
- Polish: I talk like a waterfall if im in the mood
- Polish: If nessecary i can improvise (vive la resistance! )
- Polish: Polish sausages rule

What I DON'T FIT IN:
- German: I'm not racist nor fascist in any way
- German: I'm not from Southern Germany (= No Bavarian Lederhosn and no Folk Music)
- Polish: I don't steal.
- (Southern) German/Polish: I'm not a Catholic

^ ^ nice thread

 

[Doc]

I thought all Midwest Americans where gun nuts and married to them?
"It's either the colt or me Biily Ray"
"Goodbye Mary Sue"

Nope, only hunters have guns here. Most people don't own guns, unless like I said, you are a hunter. I fell in love with guns when I was about four years old when my Uncle would take me out to my Grandmother's old farm and shoot off his Ruger .22 LR. Later on he got a Beretta 92FS, and I'd shoot that too. It used to scare the hell out of him. Being so young, but being so deadly with the targets it would make a competition shooter hang his head in shame. I'm that good with handguns, and I will always love and respect the power that they have with them as well.

Doc:ramen: