What is it with Lithuanians and basketball, anyway? Is it just because they tend to be tall and Catholic?
I have encountered both of these weird ideas consistently among fellow Americans(Euros too).
Marijuana is legal and socially accepted in the Caribbean.
False, it is actually far more illegal even in Jamaica than the USA. And aside from youths or subcultures it is not socially accepted, I think it is far more accepted in the USA. I got a laugh out of an episode of Locked Up Abroad where an American woman went to Jamaica to smuggle drugs, she meets the contact in a fast food place and proudly holds up the brick of marijuana and the contact reacts in shock and calls her insane, she says what this is Jamaica its legal, the contact corrects her lol.
Everyone in the Caribbean is a Rastafarian.
Not even close, most people display an annoyance with rastas very much like people view hippies in the USA. Cartman-“damn hippies”
Another example of forbidden make-up due to profession is lipstick and pilots - even lip balm is forbidden to pilots who might need to use an oxygen mask at work because the lip treatment + pure oxygen causes chemical burns.
On a more personal note - I don’t wear jewelry at work because I use power tools so it’s a safety issue. I don’t wear make up because I have very sensitive skin and I’ve yet to find make up that doesn’t turn my face into a mass of oozing, weeping, itchy rash from hell within a few days at most. But, of course, the assumptions are (pick one or several) I’m
- a lesbian
- not trying hard enough (?)
- have poor personal grooming/hygiene
- severely depressed
Well, it’s better than people assuming I’m a leper or plague bearer, which is how I’ve been treated on occasion during bad skin attacks.
While it is true men are generally attracted to feminine looking women, what an individual man might consider feminine varies widely. Yes, quite a few think it’s layers of make up, highly styled hair, dress, and high heels but quite a few others find unadorned face, natural hair, and “practical” clothes just as feminine and attractive. I’ve never lacked for male attention despite lack of cosmetics, “boring” natural hair, and a tendency to wear flats if not actual workboots.
I always connected the purple suit with pimps, though that may be because of that Boondocks episode.
On this board I recall somebody mentioning that if they found out a guy had cats for some reason other than his girlfriend/wife forcing him to, they’d seriously question his sexuality. Er… what? But kitties are adorable!
I’d love to have a purple suit (I’m white) but I’m more afraid I’d look like the Joker. I’d much rather shop in the black store than the white one-men’s dress clothes are so boring, generally. I’ve seen a lot of black folks wearing purple, but they can’t help it. They’re Ravens fans. 
My mistake.
That must be why they do the Sign of the Cross so well right before a free throw!
My Gran used to live alone, other than her cat. One of Gran’s friends asked her one time if she was afraid that someone would try to break into her house. Gran says, “No one will try to break in here, black people are afraid of cats.”
It apparently never occurred to Gran that someone other than a black person might try to break into her house… Funny thing was everyone, no matter what color they were, was afraid of Gran’s cat. That cat was the meanest, most demon-possessed thing on four feet.
Was its name Greebo?
Poles (Polish) are stupid.
Where’d they get that. Have they never heard of Marie Curie?
It is a well known fact that guys who like pussy are gay.
Uh, you do realize Burlington Coat Factory is a black people store, right?
“mixed-race people are the most beautiful”
I have heard this so many times, from otherwise sane-seeming folk, especially applied to children.
Indeed. It’s one of my favorites too. You can walk away with some great deals there.
Well they’re often striking because they’re exotic. When they’re beautiful or handsome, they’re beautiful and handsome in a way that is not commonly found.
In Chicago there’s nothing exotic about mixed-race people, and they are no more beautiful or striking than anyone else.
Could be in other places this is so unusual as to draw the eye, or maybe it’s something people say thinking it’s a compliment.
To me, it is a truly bizarre stereotype.
Yeah I always found that one grating. People think they’re saying something not racist when, in fact, they’re saying something quite racist.
This thread brings back something from my childhood, back in the early 50s.
We lived in a lily-white working class neighborhood, but from time to time my mother would take me downtown to go shopping with her (she didn’t drive, and the only department stores were downtown. We went on the Rapid Transit (commuter train), which passed through the inner city. That’s where the black people got on the train. They were the only black people I ever saw in person. I remember that many of the women wore colors that I never saw white women wear. I remember a large woman who wore a bright yellow dress, trimmed with purple and green. For some reason, I still have that image in my brain. I concluded at the time that black people had no taste. (It wasn’t until the 60s that white people caught up in this respect.)
My theory is actually the opposite - that they tend to be perceived as beautiful because they’re actually so mathematically average. So many “racial characteristics” are extremes, and those tend to average out in offspring. So you have a parent with a wide flat nose and one with a pointy skinny nose and you get a kid with a nice middle, avoiding either extreme. And then the same for width of forehead, skin tone, lip size, color contrast, etc. The same seems to hold true when you take race out of it, and it’s often noted that beautiful people sometimes have rather plain or ugly parents.
…and Irish girls punch you after giving head?
OK… odd stereotype… I say something funny & a group of co-workers crack up. Then one of the 20-somethings looks at me & says, “How can you be that funny? You’re over 40. You’re Old…” :smack: