give me stereotypes

[DramaQueen]

hey TB, i need your help!

i need you to give me stereotypes any of french people, french canadians and canadians you can think of. don't worry about offending, i know they're just stereotypes. i'm doing a presentation in one of my french classes on stereotypes and though i can think of many myself, i'd love to hear what other kind of stereotypes are out there. i'd be interested in hearing the american perspective.
so any stereotypes you can come up with, whether you believe them or not, would be very helpful

also, just for fun (nothing to do with my assignment) what stereotpyes apply to where you're from, do you get stereotyped according to where you're from?

 

[Axel]

well one of the stereotypes I hear the most is that it would be really easy to take over Canada. Jon Stewart once said "I feel like I could take Canada in a matter of days" or something along those lines. It's because you guys aren't hardly ever major players in a war and al that.

As for me, I'm from New England...so apply away! I probably fit most of them! I drop "r's" out of my words sometimes, too.

 

[I Am What I Am]

That French people are rude all the time.

 

[HouseMD1120]

The only ones I can think of is that they're, think they're superior to others, and have crazy public sex.

I'm from Tennessee so people automatically think that I have an accent and that I'm a hick. Not true.

 

[Smiley.Socks]

I always thought of lumberjacks as a canadian stereotype.

I'm welsh. I should apparently sh*g sheep, eat cawl, bake welshcakes and love rugby.
Only the last one is true. :]

 

[Savikins]

-That all French people smoke everywhere.
-That French people drink tons of coffee.
-That Canadians say "Eh" a lot.

 

[life of the party]

- Canadians are dumb
- French people are all fancy and classy

 

[imabrat]

I will give you great examples! I am NOT the French's biggest fan, I don't hate them but I have a strong dislike of them. It goes waaaaay back between Spain and French, and seeing as I'm Spanish I gotta support them. The French have done some pretty crappy stuff to us, a few years ago they refused to let Iberian trucks into France to export for some silly reason.

Stereotypes on the French:
- They're snotty, self-absorbed, and rude.
- The women don't shave their armpits or legs.
- They live on crepes and escargot.
- They can't be bothered to learn any other language.
- They stink, mainly because they don't bathe often.
- They all smoke cigarettes.
- All the women go topless at the beach, which ever beach they're at.
- They have poor PDA skills, aka having wild sex in public.
- They're pessimists and negative.

Obviously, they're not all true. But some of them are, for the majority of the French people I met. That said, Yoann Gourcuff, a French-born, French-bred, French-living international soccer player would make me root for France anyday.

 

[cindys_castle2011]

hey TB, i need your help!

i need you to give me stereotypes any of french people, french canadians and canadians you can think of. don't worry about offending, i know they're just stereotypes. i'm doing a presentation in one of my french classes on stereotypes and though i can think of many myself, i'd love to hear what other kind of stereotypes are out there. i'd be interested in hearing the american perspective.
so any stereotypes you can come up with, whether you believe them or not, would be very helpful

also, just for fun (nothing to do with my assignment) what stereotpyes apply to where you're from, do you get stereotyped according to where you're from?

I don't know much about the French really. What I do know though is that seem very fashionable. I just bought some old French Couture posters today for my room, and I loved them!

As for where I'm from.. people seem to think Louisiana people are 'rednecks'. Well, I can't blame them.. most of the movies about the South make us look like ignorant rednecks.

I'm no where near a redneck.. country? Sureeeee. lol. But I don't have old run down trucks in my front yard and I don't eat road kill. lol.

 

[Tinkerbell424]

For French Canadians/Canadians, they are horrible tippers down here.

 

[::Snow_White::]

The only ones I can think of are French hate tourists and they're really snobby.
I don't think I know any stereotypes for Canadians.

I'm a midwest girl, so people think we're animal-raising country farmers. Which is true for about half of us, but not everybody.

 

[m!ssemmx0]

i'm from new york, so most people assume we're all loud, obnoxious, and inconsiderate. they also assume that we're crappy drivers, and that we all have short tempers.

 

[Ppufi]

I live right by the boarder, so I hear a lot that Canadians are heavy spenders, smugglers, horrible drivers, and say 'eh' after every sentence. Of course, most aren't like that, but hey, that's stereotyping!

 

[AbsoluteAwesome1]

French -
Sitting at cafes while carrying baguettes, wearing berets, and cursing America using the phrase "how do you say" a lot. They smoke constantly in between sips of cappuccino and have curly mustaches. They are all named Pierre.
Canadian-
"So, I was out in the woods, eh? And I saw this bear, eh? So I didn't have my huntin' rifle, eh, so I had to kill it with my bare hands, eh? So then I dragged 'im back through the woods, eh, and brought 'im home and made 'im into Canadian bacon, eh? Then I went out to the woods again and got some maple syrup straight from a tree, eh? Then I noticed my flannel shirt was missing, eh? So I chopped down a tree and whittled myself a new flannel shirt, eh? Us Canadians, pretty resourceful, eh?"
French Canadian-
Je ne sais pas.

 

[I Am What I Am]

I'm a Florida girl, our stereotypes seem to be that we are a state full of old people and that we all live on the beach.

 

[WDWtraveler27]

my french teacher was telling us some today
-they hate everyone
-they especially hate americans
-the one about them being rude
- they smoke and drink in excess
-they think they are better then everyone else
-that they don't shower.
thats all i can remember

 

[kelly7ak]

I'm a Florida girl, our stereotypes seem to be that we are a state full of old people and that we all live on the beach.

Florida isn't like that?

who knew??

 

[My Wild Love]

Canadians live in Igloos.


Stereotypes for Massachusetts include: crazy drivers, Kennedy lovers, Being all about the Red Soxs, and dropping the R in words. For the most part there all true.

 

[Babyjustrun]

French Canadians, cannot drive and believe that rules do not apply to them. (If we see a crappy driver, and see a Quebec license plate we mutter 'Figures.')

French Canadians are separtists.

 

[imabrat]

French Canadians, cannot drive and believe that rules do not apply to them. (If we see a crappy driver, and see a Quebec license plate we mutter 'Figures.')

French Canadians are separtists.

Huh, down here we say that about Ontario license plates.