I’m about sick to death of the southern people who have labelled me a Yankee and rag me about my “northern” ways. What the fuck ever- I don’t make fun of your culture- I embrace it and love this area of the country. How about YOU don’t wrinkle your nose and wave your rebel flag at me when you find out I’m from NY? Give it a rest- I’m here and I’m staying. (Obviously, I am talking about specific southern people, not all. But there’s a LOT of 'em down here yelling “yankee go home” and I’m sick of it)
I hate the stereotype of people who have clinical depression. It is not a matter of will power or attitude. We can’t just pull ourselves up by our bra straps. We don’t just have the blues.
How outmoted is that stereotype? Let me guess who asked you that question, somebody in construction, and there is me carrying on another stereotype…with the younger generation, you’d probably get ‘oh you are a scientist I guess’ So don’t worry! And you would probably wouldn’t get that question asked in the states, something weird like ’ I’ve been to Islam too’
I like Astronomy too 
Oh! I have one! The stereotype that blondes are dumb. The reality is, most of us only ACT dumb when it serves our purpose. Which is more often than you would think.
I generally tell people that my reason for getting tattoos was because I didn’t drink or do drugs, I had to find something rebellious that I liked. Actually it was mostly that I had a lot of great ideas representing things that were important to me… and a friend who was a very good artist and who did them for free. Since I’m a woman it doesn’t scare people off (well sometimes it does… I’ve also been a truck driver and sports/concert arena security guard and have worked with horses most of my life, so I generally have the appearance of someone not to mess with), it tends to invite them to say things like, “Why would you do that?” or “That’s just wrong.” Once at a concert someone remarked, “I can’t believe I’m being searched by someone with tattoos.” At least she said she kinda liked them though.
That all Mexican people wear white linen outfits, sandals, sombreros and serapes.
That they also always nap under a saguaro cactus with a donkey by their side.
That they either talk very slooooooow like dis, meester, or they talk like Speedy Gonzales.
Furthermore, that this “image” is often used by Tex-Mex restaurants infuriates me to no end.
Disturbing Behaviour.
On a similar note, it’s amusing when they don’t know you’re fluent in their language. 
My love, no offence intended. I was trying to be subtle, and appear to have failed miserably. I don’t assume anything - what I was trying to say is that I have the same problem with people making assumptions about me, except the technicalities vary. They think you’re a solictor; they think I’m a doctor.
That I work in a restaurant because I’m too stupid to work a real job.
The fact that because you, " Pay my salary ", allows you to treat me like some sort of subhuman.
That Because I like to travel, have a nice home, and drive a nice car, I must be rich. This is directed more towards the people I work with.
Yeah, that southern accent thing is pretty prevelant. I just try to remind myself that Texas Instruments is, in fact, based in Texas.
OTOH, I used to live in rural Georgia, and I still have suspicions of white southerners’ attitudes about race and people different from themselves.
Suspicions, not assumptions, I hope.
And pee standing up.
And appreciate the fine art of watching sports all day with your ugly friends.
(OK, that last one might not be you, but I just hit a lot of guys here.)
Yes, I’m an English teacher. Don’t flinch when I tell you that. I have absolutely zero interest in policing your grammar, unless you’d like to pay me to do so. And, to answer your question about ‘who’ and ‘whom,’ this is the 21st century. You don’t ever have to use ‘whom’ if you don’t want to.
Yeah, if every single solitary one was a racist bigot, I could see the point. It’s just those of us that aren’t racist bigots that get painted with the same broad brush and hate the stereotype.
It’s more the fact that even in the urban parts of the south, the guy with the Stars and Bars flying from his truck and a gutter mouth about black people is just a Bubba, whereas in other parts of the country, he’s a pariah.
That’s why I have trouble with the idea of moving a southern state. I would end up in some wild argument with one of these guys.
The other thing I really hated about living in SE Georgia was the “Yankee” bashing. It’s just as bad as any New Yorker’s condescension toward other parts of the country. It seemed that no matter what we did, we would never be let into the insular society that some of the less open minded people had there.
I detest the stereotype that all black people can dance and have rhythm. Maybe if I had these things, I wouldn’t mind it. But because I don’t, I hate it.
In my fourth grade class there were two people who could not hoola-hoop: this white boy who used to wear cowboy boots to school and me. It was alright that Johnny didn’t have the cordination, but it was a tragedy that I didn’t.
(Coincidently, Johnny had a giant crush on me. One day he stood up in the lunch room and proclaimed his undying love for me. So I think maybe he could hoola-hoop but he held himself back for my sake. How pathetically sweet…)
Damn Torontonians. All of 'em – I mean ALL of them – think Buffalo is a crime-filled anarchy zone with at least one ot two buildings on fire, and that the city’s only suburbs are Tonawanda and Cheektowaga.
Apparently, for some reason everybody from Toronto gets their impression of the city from Eyewitness News, which does report on fires quite a bit. Buffalo has a strong, deeply-rooted volunteer fire department subculture, so newscasts will try to find at least one fire a day; even if it’s a barbecue gone bad, or something in Pennsylvania if there’s nothing closer to home. Hey, Torontonians want pee-wee curling coverage, and Buffalonians have a fetish for their VFDs. It’s that simple.
Also, it seems like everybody from Toronto who visits Buffalo finds themselves on the city’s east side ghetto; they never see the Irish south side, the bohemian and old-money west side, or the middle/upper middle class north side.
yeah zeete, and there are alot of pricks from other areas of the country that move south and act as if southerners are the dumbest people on the face of the planet. I’ve heard so many crude remarks from transplants that I sicken and want to bash their skulls in. Not all of course.
My wife overheard a bunch of uppity(i said it) people from the northern part of our wonderful country talking baout how everything is fried in the south. The stte fair was going on and they were talking about fried twinkies.Without fail one of the schmucks said, figures. Dman southerners fry everthing they eat. I asked here of she pointed out the fact that someone from the nyc area created those damn fried twinks…anyway. I feel you. I wouldn’t move to any part of th country and start the shit I see some start.
That entire yankee/hick thing needs to end…
That stay-at-home mom thing used to get me. My answer was always, “Why should I pay someone else minimum wage to bring up my children?”
I’m sixteen, female, white, pure-bred suburbaner from a quasi-affluent family.
So I must be obsessed with checking out guys, a mallrat, right?
Ooh, no, you say, as you look at me. I’m short. Have glasses. Look, that’s a Palm Pilot. And a TI-83. And a rediculous number of things to study for upcoming finals.
I get it. You’re one of those geeks, because you like to read and can carry on an informed ‘adult-level’ conversation about current events or even historical ones. You’re a geek, then, so you must be kind of pudgy and hate sports. No friends, right? :rolleyes:
I dunno…I’ve run into some folks who don’t consider martial arts ‘sports’. Don’t know how to explain away my friends, though…
Intelligent doesn’t mean ‘loser’. Athletic doesn’t mean ‘not intelligent’.
Since Buffalo’s reputation was brought up, this irks me about the national reputation of the city of Seattle:
It always rains; everybody in the city works for Microsoft and personally knows Bill Gates; all residents of Seattle drink too much coffee (and not just coffee, we’re talking double-tall mocha lattes) and carry multiple cellular devices; that everybody in Seattle is young, vibrant, liberal, and if we’re not smashing in the window of a building on this week’s protest march, we’re trying on new Berkenstocks; and while we’re waiting in traffic we listen to the news of the latest local serial killer.
And oddly, a number of people I’ve spoken to from New York appear surprised when they get to Seattle that we have things like plumbing and electrical power. But maybe that’s another stereotype: that New York has everything, and it’s always better than elsewhere in the country.
FISH