The French Dream
To win a battle. Any battle really. To leave the white flags at home, not collapse like a flan in a cupboard (props to Eddie Izzard) and win. C’mon, even French Boy Scouts vs. Samoan Boy Scouts in a cutthroat game of Freeze Tag … the French will take ANY victory at this point, n’est-ce pas?
And “Noone Special” … huzzah on the Israeli Dream.
The Scottish Dream
Ah Sterotypes, how you are sometimes rooted in fact.
The Philippine Dream consists of stealing another country and pretending we’d had it all along when the cops come by.
I think the Canadian Dream involves having Americans realize Canada exists.
By the way, MusicMan, per the OP, you can only comment on the French Dream if you yourself are French. I think the real French Dream involves bringing Napoleon’s corpse back to life and having him conquer everyone again. Or maybe bringing Brigitte Bardot back to life and drooling at her for the rest of eternity.
Oh, goodness, NotQuiteKarpov. That’s a marvelous corrective.
That sounds remarkably like the Dutch dream.
BTW I thought the English dream was a rose-covered cottage. Has it gone out of fashion?
I doubt the English football fans spend much time thinking about rose covered cottages, no.
(but yeah, owning any house would be a good thing for a lot of Southerners here.)
The English dream as far as I can tell is to go through life putting in the least possible effort, wearing a superior smirk and drinking endless cups of tea. Throw in a nice house and loving family and that’s the ticket right there. At least that’s my plan, others may disagree.
What is it with the English and tea?
Stereotypes
dont drink it personally
The Belgian dream is to one day, please God, win the World Cup (football, not rugby) once. Preferably against the Dutch
Based on the comparative crowds who turned out to greet the rugby and football World Cup winning teams, I think the English dream is definitely to win the Rugby World Cup.
Preferably in Australia, against the Australians in the final - not because of the Aussie people (who are super!), but because of the Australian press. :wally
And with Robinson scoring a try and Wilkinson dropping the winning goal. 
Mmmmmmmm…and I own a house too (not of course in the South :eek: )
I believe the Italian Dream involves food. And loud relatives. Lots and lots of loud relatives eating lots and lots of food.
Lots and lots of loud food eating lots and lots of relatives.
Canadian Dream:
I won’t ruin my life if I get sick/lose my job/go to school;
I can walk down the street at four o’clock in the morning;
Nobody hassles those nice people down the block because of their race/ethnicity/language/sexual orientation/religion/political views;
There’s still enough natural wilderness out there to breathe/drink/go camping in;
The Habs/the Leafs win the cup.
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Dream, indeed:D
Notwithstanding the fact that Canada does enjoy Olympic hockey superiority, we would like to stop losing our NHL teams to the US sunbelt.
Perhaps we could have one back in Winnipeg. Please?
No-one knows anymore, generally I think we drink tea because we always have. That goes for a lot of English traits. We are arrogant bastards cos we always have been. But I suppose its only arrogance when you think you are better then everyone else whereas we know
There seem to be some smilies missing from this post. 
I expect we drink tea partly because we colonised India.
But it’s a stereotype (like bowler hats).
We certainly used to be imperialists (the Sun ‘never set’ on the old British Empire - not bad for a small island), but I like to think we set a good example in granting peaceful independence to almost all our former colonies. Many of them are now members of the Commonwealth, which shows we did something right.
I don’t think we are arrogant (isn’t that generalisation arrogant? :eek: ), because we are always ready to queue and our police don’t need guns.
The Canadian dream:
To have all of our social programs taken care of by our government without having to ever pay a cent of taxes for them.
Oh, and a Tim Horton’s on every block, and a snow blower in every garage.
Tea isn’t a stereotype like bowler hats…because unlike outdated fashion, we DO drink tea, gallons of the stuff…because it tastes good 