The stereotypical american

I got alot of friends from the states, and I go there quite abit both for work and to visit my friends. I think they're great people for the most part (I can't generalize about an entire country).

But there is a general stereotype about americans as the uneducated, gun-toting, warmongering bully who never admits when the're wrong.

Now, that being said, I hate stereotypes, they are for the weakminded who use them to make life easier for themselves instead of trying to figure things out or take time to learn about someone or something. God knows that we have alot of americans on this board, and I talk to and enjoy the conversations of many of them here. However, we also have our share of folks who live up to that STEREOTYPE.

My question is to the more rational folks who,live south of the border.

When you see these folks who live up to the stereotypes how does it make you react? Do you shake your head? Does you run into it alot outside of this forum? Or do you just laugh and say "what the hell"?

<<the stereotypical american

Doesn't really bother me how anyone else acts. It doesn't reflect me at all.

<< another stereotypical american

"But there is a general stereotype about americans as the uneducated, gun-toting, warmongering bully who never admits when the're wrong."

I'm the exact opposite. I hate guns. I'm in college right now. And I always admit I'm wrong. I think they have it confused with the Deep South. George Bush kinda enhanced that stereotype with his deep accent and his terrible public-speaking skills.

Deep south isn't all that bad either.. it gets a bad rap but most of the people there are actually reasonable nice people.

They are extremely polite. Unlike New Jersey or New York.

Draco69, from your personal messages, you have demonstrated that you cannot admit when you are wrong, and though in college, that does not mean that you educated, you are recieving an education, to be educated means that it actually took.

Originally posted by KharmaDog
When you see these folks who live up to the stereotypes how does it make you react?

i just sorta stare at them and think to myself "make them go away! they're not really supposed to exist!! they're just a fairytalecry" 😕

I think I wanna move to Canada or Australia, america is starting to bore me

Americans seem a bit 'out there' 😬

the american , from my experience, is :

good company,
an EXCELLENT client,
knows exactly what he/she wants.
Serious.

unfortunatly, a few of them generate a bad image for the rest, mostly attributed to achieving of personal pride;

an ego most good americans discard saying :

" DAMN IT ; WHY CANT THEY LET GO OF THIS BULL! "

So no the stereotype dont exist in my book.

Let me put it this way:If we have a republican president in '09, im outta this country

Originally posted by GCG

knows exactly what he/she wants.

for the record i was going to say " who dont beat around the bush "
but i feared someone understanding it as a pun

Originally posted by Atomic Rico
Let me put it this way:If we have a republican president in '09, im outta this country

why?

I hate right-wing nut jobs

I can't stand that stereotype of Americans...and I can't stand when I see people live up to that stereotype. We're not all idiots!!! 😬

Originally posted by KharmaDog
Draco69, from your personal messages, you have demonstrated that you cannot admit when you are wrong, and though in college, that does not mean that you educated, you are recieving an education, to be educated means that it actually took.

I still haven't gotten that latte Kharma Dog. And add some of that maple syrup to it! Uneducated doesn't necessarily mean high school graduate or below. In that case Canada has WAY more uneducated than the US. A hell of lot more of us go to college than Canada. Plus we have the best academic institutions in the world. I'm pretty sure I'm talking to an uneducated guy. High school graduate, full-time office job, lack of booty.

And Kharma Dog you just keeping on saluting that ridiculous forest ranger of yours! 😆

Originally posted by KidRock
why?

The reason there are stereotypes is because there are people who live up to them.

I don't apply stereotypes unless people live up to them in my eyes. In attitude, appearance or both.

Living up to a stereotypical image isn't always as bad as being that stereotype with your attitude. Like the common stereotype that Americans are ALL overweight etc. Nothing wrong with being that because overweight isn't a thing that coincides with demenour normally. Being the loud-mouthed, gun toting American stereotype, is a bad thing.

Thankfully there are people who completely oppose that naturally.

Like British stereotype also.

-AC