Prejudices - UK vs GER, GER vs USA, USA vs UK (etc)

[slayera]

Mr happy GB is the island which consists of England Scotland and Wales. So bad teeth, sheep shaggers and drunken haggis munchers.

The UK is GB + Northen Ireland. "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northen Ireland." To give it its full name. Bad teeth, sheep shaggers, drunken haggis munchers and little green folk with funny hats.

Sweet I also wanted to understand what that was all about. Woohoo, I finally learned something that I wondered about for years and years.

[Mark Richard]

You just have to watch the Jerry Springer show, and Americas Funniest Home Videos, and you'll have a fair idea of how the american people are like...

[zombie@computer]

You just have to watch the Jerry Springer show, and Americas Funniest Home Videos, and you'll have a fair idea of how the american people are like...

just like mr bean gives an idea about how english are? cool

[Athlete{UK}]

I think a fairer comparison would be Trisha *shudders* I would not want the UK judged on the people there.

[Mr. Happy]

Springer is still on? That sucks...

AFV is pretty funny sometimes though, especially when babies get attacked by cats.

MR BEAN IS MY HERO DONT BASH HIM!!

[Sathor]

Well, Big Brother, this show where ppl get stuck in a house and so on, doesn't it run in many countries? In Spain and Germany it does. You can see some differences there, it gives you a good example.

For example, in the German Big Brother series, sex is of course not forbidden in any aspect, but they always did it below their blankets in the sleeping room. In the Spanish variant, they did it just open to the camera. No prejudices about the Spanish sexual attitude please.

[tr0mb0ne]

You just have to watch the Jerry Springer show, and Americas Funniest Home Videos, and you'll have a fair idea of how the american people are like...

just like mr bean gives an idea about how english are? cool

What, you mean not all english people are like that?

[Dead-Inside]

Who the hell ever got an idea of english people based on Mr. Bean? The normal people are around him, they're not him. Wtf BBQ plz.

[Mr. Happy]

we invented BBQ

[showNOmercy]

The wonderful thing about this planet is you'll always find differing opinions and views but basically everyone is the same. Honestly, to include all of America with the Jerry Springer attendance is what will get your ass bombed by our superior Air force! roflzbbq j/k!! But seriously, not one country's population can be generalized by what we see or hear on the Internet/TV/newspaper BS outlets. This is the crap that clouds everyones judgment. I can tell you that I'm a proud American for knowing that I don't fit the stereotype and do care about people. I'm partially responsible for our countries acts but also know that overall I'm a pion in the grand scheme of things. I occupy my little chunk of space and mow my lawn and don't take my life for granted.

Anyone, any person on this planet that can flip on a light switch and goto the bathroom has life pretty fucking good and need to understand that.

I would love to visit Europe but it seems Americans are not very welcome, and that is a shame. The majority of Americans that want to travel to Europe are doing so because they want to see the world, they want to enrich their lives with new and different cultures.

Wheres the fucking love anymore?

Peace from this a-hole American.

[Sorrow]

I would love to visit Europe but it seems Americans are not very welcome, and that is a shame.

That's what you've heard, but is that really true?
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[JLea]

we invented BBQ

OH YEAH SURE!

[Sorrow]

haha a little insight into Z@C's and my country.


Dutch views on others

Dutch people tend to judge foreign cultures using the standards and values they hold dear. Especially cultures whose religious or political customs are seen as intolerant (compared to Dutch standards) are looked down upon.[81]

In comparison to most other cultures, the Dutch are rather reserved in public and do not often touch each other or display anger or extreme exuberance. This is why people and cultures who display these "vices", for example those living around the Mediterranian Sea, are regarded as being too emotional. In Dutch society, extravagantly flaunting ones emotions (whether positive or negative) is seen as lack of control or even as having a psychological disorder.[82]

After centuries of close commercial, military, cultural and religious relations between the Netherlands and the British Isles, the Dutch have a generally positive opinion of the British. Anglophone television programmes and English literature are popular and held in high regard, and English is widely spoken. Americans are typically also thought to be principally "good" people, though somewhat uneducated, unsophisticated and badly guided by their politicians.

For many years, most recently since WWII, a strong animosity existed towards Germans. They were said to be rude, arrogant, noisy and intolerant and in fact most other antonyms of characteristics the Dutch pride themselves on. For many Dutch people it is not a question of "why" they dislike Germans, they just do. According to "The Xenophobe's Guide to the Dutch", "Telling a Dutch person that their language seems very similar to German is unlikely to benefit your relationship." It humorously adds: "Remarking that the two nations are similar in many ways will probably get you thrown out of the house."

[Mr. Happy]

I hear you hate the french too

go NL!


p.s. americans exist because the dutch were corrupting the puritans youth so we moved here, whoose immoral now ?!?

[Sathor]

Well, everybody hates the French ... I don't have anything against the Dutch, I think, but I accept and understand their resentment against Germans, although everything has changed by now. Germany is no likely to overrun some countries in close future. Not the political mood at the moment, I swear ^^