What is the sterotype?

[Buford57]

Shortly after we moved from Wyoming to Boston I mentioned in the office that I needed to go home early so my wife could go shoe shopping. (The office Christmas party was coming up and she wanted something to go with her new dress) One of the locals commented that he hoped she could adjust to wearing them, but it was probably a good idea with winter coming on.

 

[robvious]

I live in the "fly over country" in the USA... The combined ignorance of the Coasties is annoying.. but for the record... my grandparents did have an outhouse on the farm... but they also had standard indoor plumbing... and I never met any "Natural Americans" (what my grandma called indigenous peoples) until college... but my mother remembered them passing by in family groups heading to the tribal lands just north for the family homestead... anyway... we in the middle don't ride horses to work... unless my Ford Mustang counts... it would be nice if stupid hurt more.

 

[Golddollar]

A Basically, anyone West of Pittsburgh dressed like Roy Rogers and Dale Evens, rode a horse, walked around with six guns strapped on. Ivan

So…as long as open carry is allowed, you’re GTG. The horses may be a bit much.

Oh, I don't know. In the Bicentennial Year of 1976 I was renting a room in a house next to a church, in upstate PA, and the Fourth of July was on a Sunday. I remember at least one of the parishioners wore colonial garb, carried a musket and rode a horse to church.

 

[LVSteve]

"You know the Queen, right?" happened to me when preparing for my first wedding. Fiance's cousin from Iowa heard that my Dad "worked for the Queen" (he was a retired Civil Servant), so she asked if the Queen would be at our wedding. Some hilarity followed.

 

[16thVACav]

We as humans need stereotypes. Yes, "you can't judge a book by its cover", and you need to treat everyone as an individual and take them on face value. All that is great if you have the time to do that. However stereotypes are needed so that you can make a quick assessment of someone, or somewhere, you are going to encounter. For example, a rich posh surburb vs a ghetto covered in graffiti. We need those instantaneous assessments of a person or an area otherwise our brain would just overload.

Shouldn't the Ettamogah Pub be on that map?

 

[zeke]

Once folks discover that I hold a British birth certificate they often assume that I have bad teeth, no taste buds, good feet and drink my tea with my pinky extended.

My fathers side was from England, they made big church organs.

 

[Ingramite]

When I meet someone I never tell them I'm from Texas because it just makes them feel bad because they're not.

 

[Rob613]

I hate telling people I'm originally from NY, they automatically think NYC. Nope, it's a whole state. I grew up in a small town of less than 1000 people working on a dairy farm.

I've been in Montana long enough now, so I just say here.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

While visiting my ex's family in Florida many years ago. I was asked by one guy when he found out I was from Calif. Wanted to know how many earth quakes we had each year. I said not as many as you have hurricanes. He did not speak to me again.

 

[LVSteve]

When I meet someone I never tell them I'm from Texas because it just makes them feel bad because they're not.

I know where you are coming from. Vegas is full of waifs and strays from all over the planet and has surges of new people every so often. I came in '97, and by the millennium it seemed I'd been in town longer than 70% of the people I met.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Once in a while I will find myself speaking with a Brit. When I tell them I was raised in the former Realm they say: "eh, wot?..let's 'ear a bit of the King's."

I will morph back into my former accent as I have been assimilated.

After a short chin wag they usually chirp in with "Suffolk?"

 

[LVSteve]

Once in a while I will find myself speaking with a Brit. When I tell them I was raised in the former Realm they say: "eh, wot?..let's 'ear a bit of the King's."

I will morph back into my former accent as I have been assimilated.

After a short chin wag they usually chirp in with "Suffolk?"

Yeah, seems like half the US got posted to Lakenheath, Mildenhall, or the Woodbridge/Bentwaters complex.

 

[MRB1]

When I was on long-term assignment in Israel when a lot of them learned that I was from Texas, many of them assumed that fighting Indians and riding horseback was an everyday ordeal. That impression probably came from their favorite TV program, The Lone Ranger (dubbed in Hebrew).

 

[WardenRoss]

When I meet someone I never tell them I'm from Texas because it just makes them feel bad because they're not.

"You can tell a man from Texas, but you caint tell him much."
- my Dad.


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[oldbrownhat]

My fathers side was from England, they made big church organs.

Harrison & Harrison? Willis? Hall? Norman & Beard?

 

[oldbrownhat]

Here's another Aussie one

 

[crstrode]

Seems like nobody in New York majors in geography. Perhaps for their mindset it would be better if everything past the Hudson were marked "Here be Dragons" like in the old days.

I'll take dragons past the Hudson over zombies in the Bowery any day of the week.