What's the most ridiculous stereotype you've heard about your group?

In My Humble Opinion
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[QUOTE=FlyingRamenMonster]
It’s amazing how many foreigners still think there are kangaroos and koalas just walking around in Australia. When my English teacher went to Canada to study she told her new friends they rode pet kangaroos to school in Australia, in their pouches, and tethered them to poles outside their classrooms during class. They believed her.
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Well, I don’t know if you’ve seen the ads produced by the Australian tourism bureau that run overseas, but they do depict Australia as have kangaroos and koalas walking around everywhere. Just about every cutesy stereotype there is, right down to “shrimp on the barbie” makes an appearance.

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In the spirit of fighting ignorance, I’ll share one that was only debunked for me a few months ago: Black people don’t get suntans. I believed it until a friend showed me his tan lines.

It’s not my fault. There aren’t many black people in Kentucky.

Mayo

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I’m a Mormon homeschooler. Where should I start?

84

Talented, handsome, brilliant, well-endowed men are always conceited.

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Oooh… and Jews have horns. Thought everybody knew that.

86

While many of the stereotypes about single guys pushing 40 who are still close to their parents are cruel and demeaning, I have to admit that none of them are all that ridiculous. Most are, if anything, frighteningly realistic.

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[QUOTE=Cyn]
Nurses do doctors constantly at the hospital in their sexy white shoes…their little white caps…their tight white dresses…
Nurses are too busy to do a doctor even if we’re married to one.
The porn industry has done nursing a huge disservice.
(We’d rather do Respiratory Therapists)
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But no one does the lab techs, alas. :frowning:

(Except management of course. From the rear.)

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JohnT writes:

> . . . the ones I’ve been to over the past decade have been increasingly media-
> driven, bookless bores . . .

You go to different cons than the sort that I or RealityChuck go to. Cons like Dragoncon and Comicon are not considered to be “really” science fiction cons, but just marketing scams by media producers. Yeah, we’re being arbitrary, but there’s a lot of science fiction fans for whom professionally-run cons (which are always about media science fiction) aren’t really cons at all. There’s little overlap between the fans who go to fan-organized, written-science-fiction-oriented cons (where there’s very little costuming and usually an older crowd) and the ones who go to professionally-run, movie/TV/comic-oriented cons.

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[QUOTE=dwyr]
But no one does the lab techs, alas. :frowning:
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I was desperately in love with a lab tech once. She dumped me for a fucking dental student. Helloooo???

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[QUOTE=kunilou]
So the “advantage” the white guy sees is 34 other people going after the same job.

I’m not going to insult anyone on the board and claim that being a white guy is tougher than being anything else. But 3% in an all-white-guy world doesn’t feel a lot better than 1% in a perfectly race/sex-neutral world.
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See that’s the problem. In state government, the hiring process (believe it or not) is set up to be as impartial as possible. I’ve sat in in three or four interviews. Believe me, I’d LOVE to hire a ‘minority’. A few women in the office would go a LONG way in reducing the mysogynistic atmosphere of the group of male, primarily ex-military foks I work with.

But with that imparital selection process, the only qualified people we get are white males. We have an extreme shortage of spaces for qualified applicants and MUST hire the most suitable person. And the last three times it’s been SWM.

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[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady]
Seriously, someone here in Columbus wrote a letter to the editor bemoaning the hockey team because “people only go to the games to see a fight”. Uh, wrong. I know we’re in the South and it isn’t football, but I can appreciate the skill and talent these guys have on skates. It isn’t all about the fighting.
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Even many locals understand the inherent wrongness of professional hockey in Georgia.

I’m very fortunate to belong to an ethnic group about whom there are no stereotypes.

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[QUOTE=jsgoddess]
That poets are sensitive and mystical. ..
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Nah, we’re just self-absorbed, pretentious and effete. :wink:

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[QUOTE=koeeoaddi]
Nah, we’re just self-absorbed, pretentious and effete. :wink:
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I died of consumption when I was 20.

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[QUOTE=Eleusis]
There are a lot of stereotypes about people from Mississippi or other southern states… pick a card, any card.

IMHO the most ridiculous would be that we’re all Bush voting, pickup driving, twang drawling, n*gger hating, stupid inbred hicks with four teeth.

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Thats absurd!

Everyone knows Billy-Bob lost the 4th tooth in a that nascar accident last month

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People seem to assume that all Australians talk like Steve Irwin, drink unholy quantities of alcohol, and wear hats with corks on the brim.

I sound more English than anything else (Fun fact: The more alcohol I drink, the more I sound like a BBC World Service newsreader!), I don’t get drunk (I have to drive to work, y’know), and whilst I do own and wear an Akubra, it doesn’t have corks on the brim. In fact, I’ve never seen an actual hat with corks hanging off the brim that wasn’t intended purely as a tourist novelty.

As for Kangaroos and Koalas- in some rural places, there are heaps of them and they ARE everywhere, but as a general rule, not so much. I have seen them in one or two of the outer suburbs of Brisbane on occasions (only at night-time), though.

Funny story- after a hunting trip a while back, me and the other guys were sitting outside on the verandah having a few drinks and playing poker (The guns were unloaded and had the bolts taken out, of course!), when there’s this awful rustling, scrabbling sound from a nearby Eucalyptus tree, and a Koala falls out of it, landing on the ground with a rather comical THUMP noise, before picking himself up, looking at us for a moment, then happily wandering back into the stand of trees.

I have to say Kangaroo meat isn’t my favourite meat- It’s very lean, but it is quite gamey, and Kangaroos… OK, I’ll say it. They smell awful when they’re cut open. It is the singular most horrible smell I’ve ever encountered, and it goes beyong nauseating, to “almost throwing up unless you have a lot of willpower and a strong constitution”.

Camel is nice, though!

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ballet dancers are all stuck-up rich bitches.

We also have sticks up our asses. We don’t know how to have fun or be loose. We don’t laugh at rude jokes. We only listen to classical music or, occasionally, some new-agey sort of stuff. But never, say, punk rock. We all speak french in everyday life. We probably have overbearing mothers. The only dance we do is ballet. Ballerinas don’t take hip-hop or tap or jazz or swing or tango classes. We might be able to do ballet stylized in one of those directions, and can be taught fairly quickly to loosen up and salsa or something, but it’s not something that would ever occur to us on our own. Also, if we can incorporate it into ballet, everyone will be amazed becuase nobody’s ever thought about making ballet cool before.
Catholic school girls… well, we don’t do drugs or smoke. And we talk about Jesus a lot. and we’re suppressed virgins who turn into total whores once we’ve lost our virginity. We have overbearing daddies. And we call them “daddy.” Our fathers probably wear suits to work. If we kill our classmates, it’s either premeditated or we go to a lot of trouble to cover it up (unlike the public school kids who will fly into a rage and kill their classmates with a bunch of witnesses around.) We use big words. We either play piano or we sing in the church choir. We don’t sweat or fart.

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[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas]
That since I don’t have religion, I am immoral. I’ve been told by peoples of numerous faiths that non-church people cannot be moral.
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Seconded.

Also: That atheists are : Satanic, secretly Christian, united/organized, Communist, or some combination thereof.

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That English people all love tea. I don’t like tea. I don’t even like coffee. The whole concept of hot drinks just confuses me.

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[QUOTE=SurrenderDorothy]
ballet dancers are all stuck-up rich bitches.

We also have sticks up our asses. We don’t know how to have fun or be loose. We don’t laugh at rude jokes. We only listen to classical music or, occasionally, some new-agey sort of stuff. But never, say, punk rock. We all speak french in everyday life…

Catholic school girls… well, we don’t do drugs or smoke. And we talk about Jesus a lot. and we’re suppressed virgins who turn into total whores once we’ve lost our virginity. We have overbearing daddies. And we call them “daddy.” Our fathers probably wear suits to work. If we kill our classmates, it’s either premeditated or we go to a lot of trouble to cover it up (unlike the public school kids who will fly into a rage and kill their classmates with a bunch of witnesses around.) We use big words. We either play piano or we sing in the church choir. We don’t sweat or fart.
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Are you sure these are stereotypes? I’ve never heard any of this.

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[QUOTE=Martini Enfield]
As for Kangaroos and Koalas- in some rural places, there are heaps of them and they ARE everywhere, but as a general rule, not so much. I have seen them in one or two of the outer suburbs of Brisbane on occasions (only at night-time), though.
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I work & live on one of the suburbs of Canberra. Most mornings there are 3 or 4 kangaroos feeding on the front lawn of the office building. The damn things are a pest around here.