What do you associate with other countries? (crimes, houses)
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UK: Green rolling farmland, quaint cottages, stiff upper lips and stately country mansions, old ladies drinking tea, farmers with those hats speaking dialect, Big Ben and the houses of parliament, the monarchy, hearty, fatty, bland food
Ukraine: Hot women/mail order brides, Chernobyl, bleak communism, Crimean war
Georgia: Stalin, the Caucuses, Europe's highest peak
Croatia: The beautiful cities of Dubrovnik and Split on the Dalmatian coast
Sweden: Liberal society, reserved people, clean and expensive cities, Volvo, IKEA, ABBA, heavy metal
Netherlands: Quaint old cities with cute houses and canals, Dutch maids, windmills, tall Nordic looking people, liberal people who are a bit crazy, bicycles, marijuana cafes, windowshopping for girls
Italy: La dolce vita, controlled chaos, vespas and Fiat clogged streets, fashionable young people, motorsport, Italian old pappas and nonnas gossipping with animated gestures, delicious food, a passion for life, strong families, lots of history and old buildings, the Colloseum and roman ruins, old churches the Vatican/Catholicism, Florence and the rustic Tuscan countryside, the Amalfi coast. Fashion, mafiosi in Sicilia.
Greece: The Acropolis/Parthenon and ancient Greek ruins, democracy/philosophers and ancient ruins, places selling souvlaki, lamb and goats, stout hairy men with moustaches, Nana Moussari or whatever her name is, Greek music and plate smashing, passionate people
France: Berets, baguettes, crossants, snobby people with upturned noses, fashionable ladies, intellectualism, film noir, the Eiffel tower, Versaille, Arch de Triumph, republicanism, militant secularism, great produce
Germany: Mechanical precision, business and straight-forward people, the autobahn, Mercedes, BMW, technology, fairytale castles and Bavaria villages, beer and oktoberfest, sausages, tourists
Romania: Mysterious and traditional anomaly - Romance culture in the Balkans, Transylvannia and Vampire, ancient and mysterious castles, superstition, horse and carts, the Carpathians, beautiful women, lots of them in the UK, gypsies
Czech Republic: Communism/atheism, Prague
Iceland: Greener than Greenland, haha. Small, isolated, full of folklore (fairies), volcanoes, geysers, pretty houses, windy and cold, small and forgotten, Bjork.
Ireland: Green, green and more green. Jovial, leprechaun-like populace who swig Guiness. Poets and songs, Celtic culture.
Belgium: Multilingual... chocolate, waffles, Stella Artois, Brussels as capital of the EU, Bruges.
I might do the rest later...
Last edited by The Postman; 01-20-2014 at 09:27 PM..
^^^^Simple conversations above that even I fall into just points to the fact that if you are nor white no matter how long you have been in America you will never truly be American..Not trying to troll but America dose send the mixed message of "Be American and you better never be ashamed of 'were You came from'". Sorry to derail.
I read that Jennifer Lopez actually couldn't even speak Spanish until she was quite old, and she was made fun of because of this.
Not her fault if her parents did not speak any Spanish to her when she was small.
My brother in law doesn't speak Spanish too, but he always say's he's Mexican.
Maybe they thought to be more accepted their children had to speak English.
Yes but maybe they are very proud of their heritage so they always say they are Puerto Ricans
This is what bothers me a lot about the vast majority of Hispanics that were born and raised here. They are American, they're not even culturally Puerto Rican. They don't even speak the same Spanish like us . It's like me running around saying I'm German, when it's only my grandmother that was from Germany. Doesn't make sense at all. Americans of Irish heritage are guilty of this as well, and so are the poorer Asian immigrants. It seems to be a working class and poor class thing
UK- English premier league, QE2, Prince William and Princess Kate, Pubs, Harry Potter...
Ukraine: not much difference with Russia unless one is familiar with both, same religion, both Slavics
France: not shaven men, long lunch and dinner hours, slow service
Iceland: Cold
Switzerland: 4 languages, multi ethnics
Japan: japanese porn
China: spitting, littering, picking noses, loud, noisy, rude, materialistic,greedy, problematic products and food, corruption, communist party, one child policy, complaining the government is useless
South Korea: plastic surgery, SAxSxNG, north korea poses great threat
Thailand: prostitution, spicy food
Vietnam: vietnam war, communist party, poor
India: curry
UAE: oil
Nigeria: Nigerian scams
Philippines: Crimes, poor, english musicians
Singapore: caning, hot, boring
Iraq: Saddam Hussan
Australia: Kangaroo
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but in New York City
. It's like me running around saying I'm German, when it's only my grandmother that was from Germany. Doesn't make sense at all. Americans of Irish heritage are guilty of this as well, and so are the poorer Asian immigrants. It seems to be a working class and poor class thing
