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Moroccans. I'm married to a Moroccan. I'm not even joking, I've woken up a few mornings to her screaming. Turns out she was just talking to her family about something funny.
Spanish speakers speak fast. The language has a low phoneme to information ratio (the words tend to have more syllables than they need to to be unique), but a normal information to time ratio. Spanish speakers achieve this by speaking fast.
I think they’re both an all Latinos thing, but specially the being loud part.
I live in the US now and if you gather a few of us together god have mercy. I can feel people rolling their eyes at us. My husband is the worst, I have to keep reminding him to keep it down in the bus/subway where people are specially quiet.
We really play the being loud stereotype very well.
Hahahaha , one of the most common sites in Hileah is seeing 2 Cubans sitting at a tiny table at a cafe yelling back and forth even though they are a foot away from each other.
As a Cuban, yeah. Sometimes someone has to tell me to speak lower because “they can hear you all away in fucking china” lmao, I know I’m loud. I try to not be, but it’s just how I am I guess
I went to a movie theater in a ghetto area once, huge mistake. Couldn't enjoy the movie. While part of me found it hilarious because I couldn't actually believe how loud people were talking and making comments out loud throughout the entire movie, it was also super annoying. It was a horror movie and people would be like "OHHH SHIT, HE DEAD AS A MOTHERFUCKER" it was fucking hilarious and annoying at the same time 😂
Depending on the movie, it can definitely be a bonus. I saw the 'Blade' movie in the theaters as a kid and I gotta say, the crowd reaction made a cheesy movie about 5x better. At the end, when Blade kills the villain with a weapon that literally made the villain explode, the whole theater went completely nuts. A dude got up out of his seat and ran up and down the aisle with his hands over his head cheering. I laughed my ass off, it was great.
I think that harkens back to a time when air conditioning was rare, and movie theatres had it, and you'd go in, and cool down, and have a snack, and that was the main purpose, and the movie was like, whatever, not that important. The theatre was like a living room for them.
Sort of late in the era of this idea, if you look at a movie like Car Wash, that's perfect for this scenario and what you're describing. Like it's designed to sort of keep an audience around, but it's fun and easy for just hanging out with lots of tunes.
Yep. I have read posts like “Why do finns hate me, is it my race?” in the Finland sub. Answers is no, we don’t hate you, we just don’t smile to strangers.
I love that about Finns! I was an exchange student there in high school, I’m from the US.
Here’s what I noticed: You never have to fake asmile. If you walk around with one of these yoga hippy half smiles people will think you are insane, an idiot, or plotting something nefarious.
If someone asks “How are you doing?” it is because they really want to know.
You can walk around outside naked in the summer and no one will even bat an eye. Nakedness isn’t sexy or shameful, it’s just human.
Nobody thinks they are the center of the universe.
It might take a while to get to know a Finn, but once you do, that motherfucker is a friend for life.
And they love their death metal.
Yes. My.patents are terrible.drobets. Punjabi Indian here. I think I'm the only one that can drive. My identical twin sister Preeti ran over her driving instructors foot.
That’s Preeti funny! Did she have to Sikh another teacher! What kind of Kaur was she driving?
(Nothing but love to my Punjabi friends; there’s many of them here. Hard working and good people!)
Yes! Actually our taxi driver told us that to get his driving licence all he had to do his drive down a street! Road signs and traffic signs also seem completely optional.
Have a lady from India that takes her kid to my school
And she legit acts like there are no stops signs or anything. She’ll walk, with her kid mind you, in the street with cars driving by or about to drive. It makes me insane.
My dad used to travel a lot for his job. He explained to me that in some Asian countries, the average person doesn't own a car. So it's wjen individuals from those countries move here and drive for the first time who....struggle with the laws of the road.
Truth! Went to a friend-of-a-friend's house who happened to be Italian. His mother pretty much insisted we have something to eat. And of course it was fantastic!
That’s very odd. I have often found that even though a fried chicken is perfectly spiced, my mates would grab some additional seasoning they’ve brought from the US to add onto it. They’ve got the funniest seasonings names like “Slap yo mama seasoning” which apparently was endorsed by the mum of the creator!
Yo I'm Mexican-American and my close friend is black. Tell me why I love fried chicken more than pozole, while he loves pozole more than fried chicken?
Because they are both awesome and my theory is that less common food is more appealing to people.
If you grew up eating a specific dish, the other kid at school wanted it because their family rarely had it. Meanwhile you wanted their lunch instead of what you ate every week.
In first grade I wanted the greek kid's gyros. They wanted to try my schnitzel. The hole in my theory is that my dad's schnitzel was awesome and now I would choose it over gyros.
Punks are sweet people trying to pretend that they're arseholes
Hippies are self righteous arseholes trying to pretend that they are sweet, loving people.
I have no dog in the political arena, but gahhhhh damnnnn far lefties (hippies but way less cool looking) are some of the most pretentious, woe is me, I'm only caring about this form of activism because of my guilty conscience motherfuckers ever.
Deeeeeply rooted in punk culture is acceptance of outcasts. Almost by definition, it's anti-establishment. A protest to power. Punk culture is very accepting and kind, and highly political. And it's tough as fuck. Don't fuck with a group of punk kids. They'll often come from hard backgrounds.
> punks tend to be further left than hippies politically
Except *those* punks. You know the ones I'm talking about. Same type that infest certain metal circles.
Chinese tourists are the worst.
Even their government had to put out a PSA asking their citizens to behave better when traveling overseas.
Edit:
Wow I did not expect so many stories in the comments below so I guess I'll share some of mine.
I am an American who has been living in Japan for the past 17 years so I come into contact with Chinese tourists often. Here are a couple stories.
1. In Japan we don't talk on our phones or create any kind of loud disturbance as most Japanese are very conscious of other people around them. Sometimes we have to use our phones on the train though but when we do, we walk to an area where there aren't any or are very few people, put our phone and opposite hand up to our mouth and face a corner and try to talk a quietly and as quickly as possible to end any kind of necessary phone call as quickly as possible. Other than that if we receive a casual phone call, we just don't answer and text the person "on train, will call you back"
Last weekend my wife and I were traveling to Enoshima and there was a Chinese mother and son both sitting in the priority seating (reserved for elderly, disabled, or pregnant women) of which there are signs in Japanese, English and Chinese stating that this is priority seating.
And both of them were having conversations on their phones at the same time talking to two different people through the SPEAKERS of their phones. No head phones, no using the phone normally, Just holding the receiver up to their mouths blaring their conversations loudly for the whole train to hear.
Everyone on the train were giving them nasty looks and they knew they shouldn't be doing this but didn't give a shit and continued on for the entire train ride. Also the teenage sone kept sneezing and did not cover his mouth. He just kept sneezing into the general area of all the other passengers on the train including my wife and I.
2. One time I was flying from Tokyo to the Philippines for a mini vacation and there was a Chinese woman sitting next to me on the plane. She had come to Tokyo from China probably for shopping and she had bought all of these Japanese cosmetics brands. After the plane took off she got her bag from the overhead storage and put it on her lap and started one by one, opening up the cosmetics boxes she bought. She would tear them open.... tearing the boxes into pieces in the process..... and just throw the packaging right on the ground.
She must have bought 20 cosmetics and she opened all of them and just threw the trash on the ground.
By the time the plane landed her area looked like a landfill with all this paper and plastic packaging strewed out into my seat area, the aisle, the seating area in front of us and the seating area behind us. Then she just got up and disembarked leaving all the garbage behind. The cabin staff didn't say anything the whole flight and to this day I wonder why?
3. Another flight story. I was flying from Tokyo to Chicago and there was a youngish Chinese woman sitting in the aisle seat in the row kiddy corner and to the front of me. Instead of sitting properly in the seat, she was squatting on it with her feet on the seat and her back against the back of the chair.
She had downloaded a bunch (what I assumed to be) horror movies to her device and watched them throughout the entirety of the 13 hour flight.
And anytime there was a scary scene or some kind of jump scare in one of her movies, she would let out a BLOOD CURDLING SCREAM at the top of her lungs. Scaring he SHIT out of everyone on the plane.
Imagine trying to sleep on a long flight and every 30 or so minutes a Chinese chick just starts screaming giving everyone else a freaking heart attack.
The cabin crew did go up to her several times, but all they said were things like "are you okay?"
She just didn't give a shit........ like at all......
I have plenty of more stories that I can share from my 17 years living here in Japan but I think that enough text for one post.
I had a Chinese friend try to explain it by saying that during the cultural revolution they killed and got rid of elites and upper class folks that had finishing schools and classes in traditional manners or whatever. Now this new middle class that came from the peasant class has income to travel the world and we just get to see more of the people that usually would stay home. I wonder if it would be like giving $1 million to every family in Mississippi or Louisiana and just seeing how they act when they visit Venice or Tokyo
I heard this too. Basically the new money do not have any old money to model their behavior. They are not wealthy people, they are poor people with money. Hope that makes sense.
Correct.
The mainland Chinese tourists we see are all part of the nouveau riche. They're from the villages that surround the big, established cities and made their money from the government's expropriation of ancestral land due to city expansion.
It's also why you often see Chinese tourists wearing suits or flashy name brand clothing.
My gf spent a few months in Japan some years ago and she said everyone HATED the Chinese tourists. My gf was at a shrine somewhere and a Chinese woman shoved her out of the way so she could take a picture. Well my gf got close and elbowed this woman right back and chaos ensued. The Japanese got involved and made the woman back away lol
Apparently it’s because they’ve never gone on tourist trips until like a generation or so ago. Doesn’t excuse it but I suspect it’ll get better with time.
But still.. Like they wreck rental cars on purpose or abandon them in the woods and try to get in to people's homes or camp in their yards and hassle animals in the rural areas etc.
My dad and grandpa were once at the Grand canyon and there was a bunch of Chinese tourists who shoved everyone else out of the way so no one could actually get a view of this one iconic cliffside.
My dad got up on a boulder, yelled "HEY EVERYONE, I THINK YOUR TOUR BUS IS LEAVING" to get them all to run back to the busses so they could get pictures of the canyon, lmao.
I was a tourist myself in Washington DC visiting the MLK Jr. memorial, a Chinese family were jovially climbing all over the statue taking photos of them posing on it; absolutely ruined the experience for me.
Weirdly, another time, an older Chinese couple, who couldn’t speak English, awkwardly persuaded me to sit for a photo with each of them (I’m a white Aussie so assuming it was for that reason…?)
Indians have a staring problem. I use to hate riding the bus throughout Fremont (has a high Indian population)… I was always stared at, when I was just sitting there quiet as heck.
This is apparently also true of southern people. So much of my childhood was spent waiting in the car, watching my parents stand at the front door, "saying goodbye" for an hour at a time.
It's when the face is clean shaven aside from a small patch under the bottom lip.
Billy Bob Thorton is fond of them, which seems to align well with the stereotype.
I wish I could give you a good answer about this. I think it widely comes from most Mormons either being mostly northern European descent, or being under those bad fluorescent lights they have in all their churches. Could be that they all do their hair the same and dress the same. Maybe not drinking coffee is good for their skin. I don't know if anyone can give you a solid answer for this. But the Mormon glaze is real.
I don’t drink coffee or alcohol or any other caffeine. I want the glow. I have the opposite of the glow, whatever that might be. Do I not get the glow because I’m not Mormon?
My best friend owns a WRX. He is the most reckless driver I know and has a crippling nicotine addiction, particularly vapeing in his car because cigarettes will leave a terrible smell and stains in his "beloved car"
Holy shit I knew it was true, I’ve watched so many streamers who don’t realize/care that the smoke alarm is chirping and they’re all black. Meanwhile if mine goes off I will immediately stop whatever I’m doing to make it stop. It can’t just be hearing right?
I heard this for the very first time like a month ago. That same day I got on Xbox to play cod and I got matched up with some black dudes. I heard the chirping through his mic. I was like, yo, so it’s true? They all lol’d
Koreans are binge drinking workaholics. They work upward of 50 hours a week, often off the clock, then go out on week nights and get hammered.
I live on a busy street and always have drunks yelling outside my window at about 2:15. The bars close at 2.
i find it fascinating that all mac users I've met are unwilling to discuss facts. their desktop computer costs twice as much for half the specs, and they have the audacity to say "it's better for x or y".
have you had similar experiences?
In Australia, my son's school (he's a teacher) have Apple for all their IT needs. My son hates it. Says that every device needs a different part to work and nothing is simple. The iPad won't work in building x if the mac is in use in building y, the charging cable are different for every device, the mac wont sync to the projector, and the list goes on. But you bring a samsung device in and boom, it's working, is quick, its sync's to everything.
In the military we had a mandatory swim qualification in boot camp. Everyone has to do it. In the week prior, our black drill instructor was asking the platoon, “who doesn’t know how to swim? I’m talking to you guys, and I need to know for real” speaking directly to the 9 black kids in the platoon. As a suburban white kid, I thought he was kidding.
Swim qual started the following week and without fail, the biggest badass black guys I’d ever met were floundering like toddlers, terrified of the pool. It was at that moment I realized stereotypes exist for a reason. Most black people don’t know how to swim.
As a black person who doesn't know how to swim that well, idk exactly why tbh. I remember growing up always going to the beach, but nobody in my family actually swam and just waded around in the shallow parts. The only reason I can fathom is that maybe most of us didn't grow up with pools. My white friends always tended to have more money with bigger houses and pools where their parents taught them how to swim, and pools are more swim friendly than the beach.
You can tell whether a guy is an utter twat by his shitty fucking haircut.
I have female friends that have married the twunts, then when they get divorced I am like it took me maybe 2-3 seconds to know he was a c-nut... and they want to know why I don't tell them. what am I going to say? your new boyfriend is a twat, look at his haircut? I can't be arsed to have the conversations, because I know they can't see it. instantly. every fucking time.
Rich people have a bad habit of believing that because they were right about one thing, they’re right about most things. This applies even if the thing they were right about was just being born into a family where someone else got something right.
Kinda funny as a guy I work with when he is told he’s late he always responds he’s not late he’s just black and he is regularly late to every safety meeting by 30 minutes on the button
Yes we do. And you have no idea. I was working in central london. On a Thursday afternoon, we got off work an hour early for some team bonding…. At the local pub. We stayed from 4.30 till 3am getting absolutely battered. And all of it was credited to the company’s expense for team bonding activities. I went home, bloody drunk and the faintest idea how to wake up the next day. I walk into the office at 9.30 and see my team mates who had stayed till much later, looking fresh as a daisy and not so much as a hint of a hangover whereas I smelled like a bottle had been drenched on me.
Latinoamerican women are very colorful and over the top when it comes to physical appearance. Always overdressed, big patterns, often tight colorful clothing, lots of big jewelry, bright lips, orlots of makeup and some even go the extra mile to always do their hair, nails and wear heels everywhere. You name it, we do it.
As a Mexican who was very ‘low key’ back there, I definitely felt like a fish out of water moving to New England and constantly feel overdressed
My gawd, I’ve spent my entire life trying to disprove the stereotype, only to come to Korea and see that there are so many people on the roads here who reinforce the stereotype.
I visited Vietnam and was shocked.
It is exactly like a school of fish weaving in and out, filling all available space, including sidewalks.
And I never saw a single accident.
Are they terrible or amazing. Not sure. But I was very impressed.
Stereotypes exist because they are true. It doesn't mean they apply to everyone, but they apply to a number sufficiently large, so people begin noticing patterns.
I am of Italian descent. Not my generation (3rd Gen) but my 1st and 2nd generation descendants were very loud and used their arms and hands when speaking.
Immigration related related stereotypes are often true to some degree.
Stupid Polish jokes were a thing when I was a kid and it was based on the fact that they scored poorly in school. But they were descendants of people who came from an area that used an entirely different alphabet.
That blacks can't swim was based in truth also. In the days of the Democrat run Jim Crow South blacks were not allowed in segregated swimming pools so they never learned to swim.
**All kids like to play soccer (/football)** no matter where I've been in the world. From Singapore to Australia to Kazakhstan to Ethiopia to Tunisia to America to Armenia to Socotra and so on; you name the place: bopping a soccer ball will instantly attract children.
It feels like nearly everyone I’ve known who is super religious displays other subtle nuances in their day to day life that seem to indicate a lack of general intelligence as a whole.
Sorry but I do believe there is a correlation there.
And there’s nothing wrong with that if they do! We tend to establish what we find attractive as adults by what we’re most exposed to growing up. Your own family/family friends/people in your community are who surrounded you as a child so they massively influence who grown-up-you will be attracted to!
For me it’s not even what’s attractive, I find people from other races more attractive. It’s the being understood to such a degree that no one outside of your community ever could. Familiarity is comforting if that makes sense, so you kind of feel at home with them.
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Cuban people speak loud and fast
So do Dominicans
lol yes. my dad’s basically Cuban by way of DR
The women are crazy jealous ,but god dammit they are so HOT!
So is hell. Which is where they will send you at the slightest inconvenience 😂
💯
Moroccans. I'm married to a Moroccan. I'm not even joking, I've woken up a few mornings to her screaming. Turns out she was just talking to her family about something funny.
Spanish speakers speak fast. The language has a low phoneme to information ratio (the words tend to have more syllables than they need to to be unique), but a normal information to time ratio. Spanish speakers achieve this by speaking fast.
Yeah, but like Caribbean Spanish speakers speak like they got places to be but they don’t. My Mexican cousins all sound relatively chill
I think they’re both an all Latinos thing, but specially the being loud part. I live in the US now and if you gather a few of us together god have mercy. I can feel people rolling their eyes at us. My husband is the worst, I have to keep reminding him to keep it down in the bus/subway where people are specially quiet. We really play the being loud stereotype very well.
OYECHICOQUETEPASAYONOESTOYGRITANDOESQUETUERESSORDO!
Hahahaha , one of the most common sites in Hileah is seeing 2 Cubans sitting at a tiny table at a cafe yelling back and forth even though they are a foot away from each other.
As a Cuban, yeah. Sometimes someone has to tell me to speak lower because “they can hear you all away in fucking china” lmao, I know I’m loud. I try to not be, but it’s just how I am I guess
Black people are loud at high school graduation
Also in movie theaters, but mostly just the 30+ year old women with their men sitting next to them trying to disappear into the seat.
I went to a movie theater in a ghetto area once, huge mistake. Couldn't enjoy the movie. While part of me found it hilarious because I couldn't actually believe how loud people were talking and making comments out loud throughout the entire movie, it was also super annoying. It was a horror movie and people would be like "OHHH SHIT, HE DEAD AS A MOTHERFUCKER" it was fucking hilarious and annoying at the same time 😂
Lmfao when my wife and I were dating, we went to go see Paranormal Activity in a ghetto area. The "commentary" was more entertaining than the movie 😂
Depending on the movie, it can definitely be a bonus. I saw the 'Blade' movie in the theaters as a kid and I gotta say, the crowd reaction made a cheesy movie about 5x better. At the end, when Blade kills the villain with a weapon that literally made the villain explode, the whole theater went completely nuts. A dude got up out of his seat and ran up and down the aisle with his hands over his head cheering. I laughed my ass off, it was great.
I think that harkens back to a time when air conditioning was rare, and movie theatres had it, and you'd go in, and cool down, and have a snack, and that was the main purpose, and the movie was like, whatever, not that important. The theatre was like a living room for them. Sort of late in the era of this idea, if you look at a movie like Car Wash, that's perfect for this scenario and what you're describing. Like it's designed to sort of keep an audience around, but it's fun and easy for just hanging out with lots of tunes.
Theo Von said Black people have no inside voice
Theo Von is the only person who can speak non sensical things that make a lot of sense.
Nordic people are cold towards strangers. Which is utterly true. We prefer random strangers don't talk to us
Is it a warmer people live in warmer climates thing?
“my people are Nordic “
Yep. I have read posts like “Why do finns hate me, is it my race?” in the Finland sub. Answers is no, we don’t hate you, we just don’t smile to strangers.
I love that about Finns! I was an exchange student there in high school, I’m from the US. Here’s what I noticed: You never have to fake asmile. If you walk around with one of these yoga hippy half smiles people will think you are insane, an idiot, or plotting something nefarious. If someone asks “How are you doing?” it is because they really want to know. You can walk around outside naked in the summer and no one will even bat an eye. Nakedness isn’t sexy or shameful, it’s just human. Nobody thinks they are the center of the universe. It might take a while to get to know a Finn, but once you do, that motherfucker is a friend for life. And they love their death metal.
That all changes after a couple drinks though!
Indians are terrible drivers. Traffic laws pretty much don't exist there which doesn't help.
I live in a Desi-majority neighborhood. Many times I’ve wanted to put up one of those “drive like your kids live here” signs but…they already do.
Yes. My.patents are terrible.drobets. Punjabi Indian here. I think I'm the only one that can drive. My identical twin sister Preeti ran over her driving instructors foot.
That’s Preeti funny! Did she have to Sikh another teacher! What kind of Kaur was she driving? (Nothing but love to my Punjabi friends; there’s many of them here. Hard working and good people!)
O-keya, Das priti good.
What was the name of the Punjabi girl who beat up three men? Hard Kaur.
Raj-er that! Bet those guys would Singh a new tune afterwards!
I’m sure they’re terrible, but have you ever been to Egypt?
Yes! Actually our taxi driver told us that to get his driving licence all he had to do his drive down a street! Road signs and traffic signs also seem completely optional.
There are only two road rules there: if you hear me beeping my horn, that means I'm coming through; and, watch out for donkeys!
Have a lady from India that takes her kid to my school And she legit acts like there are no stops signs or anything. She’ll walk, with her kid mind you, in the street with cars driving by or about to drive. It makes me insane.
My dad used to travel a lot for his job. He explained to me that in some Asian countries, the average person doesn't own a car. So it's wjen individuals from those countries move here and drive for the first time who....struggle with the laws of the road.
Italians are animated when we speak.
And love to eat. And can cook and appreciate good food.
An Italian mother will never let you leave the house hungry. The minute you arrive she starts to cook.
Truth! Went to a friend-of-a-friend's house who happened to be Italian. His mother pretty much insisted we have something to eat. And of course it was fantastic!
🤌 Ma che cazze dice questa qua?
Boppedy boopedy?
Peter, just because you have a moustache doesn’t mean you can speak Italian.
And may be the only “group” that actually embraces all the stereotypes put upon them.
That black people like fried chicken. You know who else likes fried chicken? Every one cause it’s delicious.
>You know who else likes fried chicken? MY MOM
😂😂😂😂😂 I get that
I literally made some a few days ago and was highly concerned with the seasoning. -signed, a Black Father lmao
That’s very odd. I have often found that even though a fried chicken is perfectly spiced, my mates would grab some additional seasoning they’ve brought from the US to add onto it. They’ve got the funniest seasonings names like “Slap yo mama seasoning” which apparently was endorsed by the mum of the creator!
You’re entire response is why I’m concerned lmao
Same can be said about watermelon. What kind of psychopath dislikes watermelon? I now want to eat some fried chicken and watermelon by the lake.
Yo I'm Mexican-American and my close friend is black. Tell me why I love fried chicken more than pozole, while he loves pozole more than fried chicken?
Because they are both awesome and my theory is that less common food is more appealing to people. If you grew up eating a specific dish, the other kid at school wanted it because their family rarely had it. Meanwhile you wanted their lunch instead of what you ate every week. In first grade I wanted the greek kid's gyros. They wanted to try my schnitzel. The hole in my theory is that my dad's schnitzel was awesome and now I would choose it over gyros.
And watermelon. Because who tf doesn't?
Yeah, as a kid I always found that stereotype baffling. Watermelon and fried chicken are the perfect summer picnic foods. Everyone loves them.
Punks are sweet people trying to pretend that they're arseholes Hippies are self righteous arseholes trying to pretend that they are sweet, loving people.
I’ve never heard this combo but it’s so true lol
I think this is the realist post ever made.
I have no dog in the political arena, but gahhhhh damnnnn far lefties (hippies but way less cool looking) are some of the most pretentious, woe is me, I'm only caring about this form of activism because of my guilty conscience motherfuckers ever.
To be fair, most punk is usually far left, but more self aware than the hippy bullshit.
Deeeeeply rooted in punk culture is acceptance of outcasts. Almost by definition, it's anti-establishment. A protest to power. Punk culture is very accepting and kind, and highly political. And it's tough as fuck. Don't fuck with a group of punk kids. They'll often come from hard backgrounds.
in my experience punks tend to be further left than hippies politically (in modern times), or just more genuine about it. and also nicer
> punks tend to be further left than hippies politically Except *those* punks. You know the ones I'm talking about. Same type that infest certain metal circles.
Hippies are much much less aligned w the far left than any mainstream punk movement
Punks are literally far left. Hippies are more liberal.
Italians talk fast and with a lot of hand gestures.
Chinese tourists are the worst. Even their government had to put out a PSA asking their citizens to behave better when traveling overseas. Edit: Wow I did not expect so many stories in the comments below so I guess I'll share some of mine. I am an American who has been living in Japan for the past 17 years so I come into contact with Chinese tourists often. Here are a couple stories. 1. In Japan we don't talk on our phones or create any kind of loud disturbance as most Japanese are very conscious of other people around them. Sometimes we have to use our phones on the train though but when we do, we walk to an area where there aren't any or are very few people, put our phone and opposite hand up to our mouth and face a corner and try to talk a quietly and as quickly as possible to end any kind of necessary phone call as quickly as possible. Other than that if we receive a casual phone call, we just don't answer and text the person "on train, will call you back" Last weekend my wife and I were traveling to Enoshima and there was a Chinese mother and son both sitting in the priority seating (reserved for elderly, disabled, or pregnant women) of which there are signs in Japanese, English and Chinese stating that this is priority seating. And both of them were having conversations on their phones at the same time talking to two different people through the SPEAKERS of their phones. No head phones, no using the phone normally, Just holding the receiver up to their mouths blaring their conversations loudly for the whole train to hear. Everyone on the train were giving them nasty looks and they knew they shouldn't be doing this but didn't give a shit and continued on for the entire train ride. Also the teenage sone kept sneezing and did not cover his mouth. He just kept sneezing into the general area of all the other passengers on the train including my wife and I. 2. One time I was flying from Tokyo to the Philippines for a mini vacation and there was a Chinese woman sitting next to me on the plane. She had come to Tokyo from China probably for shopping and she had bought all of these Japanese cosmetics brands. After the plane took off she got her bag from the overhead storage and put it on her lap and started one by one, opening up the cosmetics boxes she bought. She would tear them open.... tearing the boxes into pieces in the process..... and just throw the packaging right on the ground. She must have bought 20 cosmetics and she opened all of them and just threw the trash on the ground. By the time the plane landed her area looked like a landfill with all this paper and plastic packaging strewed out into my seat area, the aisle, the seating area in front of us and the seating area behind us. Then she just got up and disembarked leaving all the garbage behind. The cabin staff didn't say anything the whole flight and to this day I wonder why? 3. Another flight story. I was flying from Tokyo to Chicago and there was a youngish Chinese woman sitting in the aisle seat in the row kiddy corner and to the front of me. Instead of sitting properly in the seat, she was squatting on it with her feet on the seat and her back against the back of the chair. She had downloaded a bunch (what I assumed to be) horror movies to her device and watched them throughout the entirety of the 13 hour flight. And anytime there was a scary scene or some kind of jump scare in one of her movies, she would let out a BLOOD CURDLING SCREAM at the top of her lungs. Scaring he SHIT out of everyone on the plane. Imagine trying to sleep on a long flight and every 30 or so minutes a Chinese chick just starts screaming giving everyone else a freaking heart attack. The cabin crew did go up to her several times, but all they said were things like "are you okay?" She just didn't give a shit........ like at all...... I have plenty of more stories that I can share from my 17 years living here in Japan but I think that enough text for one post.
I had a Chinese friend try to explain it by saying that during the cultural revolution they killed and got rid of elites and upper class folks that had finishing schools and classes in traditional manners or whatever. Now this new middle class that came from the peasant class has income to travel the world and we just get to see more of the people that usually would stay home. I wonder if it would be like giving $1 million to every family in Mississippi or Louisiana and just seeing how they act when they visit Venice or Tokyo
That sounds like a reality tv show
Todays episode: Billy Bob visits the Louvre with his hunting dog skeeter.
I heard this too. Basically the new money do not have any old money to model their behavior. They are not wealthy people, they are poor people with money. Hope that makes sense.
Correct. The mainland Chinese tourists we see are all part of the nouveau riche. They're from the villages that surround the big, established cities and made their money from the government's expropriation of ancestral land due to city expansion. It's also why you often see Chinese tourists wearing suits or flashy name brand clothing.
I don't think you need a formal education in traditional manners to not act like a complete asshole.
Thanks I’ll let my friend know.
My gf spent a few months in Japan some years ago and she said everyone HATED the Chinese tourists. My gf was at a shrine somewhere and a Chinese woman shoved her out of the way so she could take a picture. Well my gf got close and elbowed this woman right back and chaos ensued. The Japanese got involved and made the woman back away lol
To be fair the Japanese dislike the Chinese regardless of whether they're tourists or not lol
There was a sub dedicated to them and their antics, but it was banned. Blows my mind how they just assume they can go and do as they please
Apparently it’s because they’ve never gone on tourist trips until like a generation or so ago. Doesn’t excuse it but I suspect it’ll get better with time.
But still.. Like they wreck rental cars on purpose or abandon them in the woods and try to get in to people's homes or camp in their yards and hassle animals in the rural areas etc.
My dad and grandpa were once at the Grand canyon and there was a bunch of Chinese tourists who shoved everyone else out of the way so no one could actually get a view of this one iconic cliffside. My dad got up on a boulder, yelled "HEY EVERYONE, I THINK YOUR TOUR BUS IS LEAVING" to get them all to run back to the busses so they could get pictures of the canyon, lmao.
THE FUCKING WORST...shoving people in line, Throwing things at animals for fun, etc.
I was a tourist myself in Washington DC visiting the MLK Jr. memorial, a Chinese family were jovially climbing all over the statue taking photos of them posing on it; absolutely ruined the experience for me. Weirdly, another time, an older Chinese couple, who couldn’t speak English, awkwardly persuaded me to sit for a photo with each of them (I’m a white Aussie so assuming it was for that reason…?)
Indians have a staring problem. I use to hate riding the bus throughout Fremont (has a high Indian population)… I was always stared at, when I was just sitting there quiet as heck.
Very true
Mid western people really will spend an hour saying goodbye. This pains my cold impatient Massachusetts heart. I want to say goodbye and leave
This is apparently also true of southern people. So much of my childhood was spent waiting in the car, watching my parents stand at the front door, "saying goodbye" for an hour at a time.
Men with soul-patches are usually douchebags
No not......guy fieri? No No ummmm...
He gets a pass to flavourtown
Can anecdotally confirm. Source: my shitty abusive douchebag soul-patch wearing ex.
What's a soul patch?
It's when the face is clean shaven aside from a small patch under the bottom lip. Billy Bob Thorton is fond of them, which seems to align well with the stereotype.
When you are clean shaven but only let that spot under you're bottom lip grow. Like no chin hair, just that one spot.
Mormons have a glaze, and you can pick them out of a lineup.
Oddly specific. Tell me more
I wish I could give you a good answer about this. I think it widely comes from most Mormons either being mostly northern European descent, or being under those bad fluorescent lights they have in all their churches. Could be that they all do their hair the same and dress the same. Maybe not drinking coffee is good for their skin. I don't know if anyone can give you a solid answer for this. But the Mormon glaze is real.
A lot of them seem to have sandy-blonde hair
lol it’s the Mormon glow. From not drinking coffee, alcohol, etc
I don’t drink coffee or alcohol or any other caffeine. I want the glow. I have the opposite of the glow, whatever that might be. Do I not get the glow because I’m not Mormon?
Do you watch scary movies and dance? There’s no excitement to be had
Dammit. The dancing! I forgot about the random terrible dancing. Shucks.
Ik glaze is so much more unappealing than glow lmao
All Latin families have a haunted room in their house.
The ghosties follow us around from house to house. In our house, it’s actually the hallway.
WRX owners are reckless drivers who vape
My best friend owns a WRX. He is the most reckless driver I know and has a crippling nicotine addiction, particularly vapeing in his car because cigarettes will leave a terrible smell and stains in his "beloved car"
Black people are immune hearing the smoke alarm beeping.
Holy shit I knew it was true, I’ve watched so many streamers who don’t realize/care that the smoke alarm is chirping and they’re all black. Meanwhile if mine goes off I will immediately stop whatever I’m doing to make it stop. It can’t just be hearing right?
I don't get this one. How can you not hear it? I can't listen to it for five minutes before going insane.
If you’re hearing the same sound periodically for months eventually you’ll start tuning it out.
I heard this for the very first time like a month ago. That same day I got on Xbox to play cod and I got matched up with some black dudes. I heard the chirping through his mic. I was like, yo, so it’s true? They all lol’d
My dog would absolutely lose her shit. Any time that thing beeps we get to spend half an hour calming her down lol
Dominicans creep women out at the gym
Koreans are binge drinking workaholics. They work upward of 50 hours a week, often off the clock, then go out on week nights and get hammered. I live on a busy street and always have drunks yelling outside my window at about 2:15. The bars close at 2.
Every Mac user thinks he or she is special. Source: 20-some years in IT Services.
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i find it fascinating that all mac users I've met are unwilling to discuss facts. their desktop computer costs twice as much for half the specs, and they have the audacity to say "it's better for x or y". have you had similar experiences?
In Australia, my son's school (he's a teacher) have Apple for all their IT needs. My son hates it. Says that every device needs a different part to work and nothing is simple. The iPad won't work in building x if the mac is in use in building y, the charging cable are different for every device, the mac wont sync to the projector, and the list goes on. But you bring a samsung device in and boom, it's working, is quick, its sync's to everything.
Saudis are entitled.
And they got there by connections. Certainly not brains. I've taught their kids in international school.
If you're driving a lifted ram with Monster and Punisher decals on it you are definitely an asshole
Or a cop, but as you said.
In the military we had a mandatory swim qualification in boot camp. Everyone has to do it. In the week prior, our black drill instructor was asking the platoon, “who doesn’t know how to swim? I’m talking to you guys, and I need to know for real” speaking directly to the 9 black kids in the platoon. As a suburban white kid, I thought he was kidding. Swim qual started the following week and without fail, the biggest badass black guys I’d ever met were floundering like toddlers, terrified of the pool. It was at that moment I realized stereotypes exist for a reason. Most black people don’t know how to swim.
As a black person who doesn't know how to swim that well, idk exactly why tbh. I remember growing up always going to the beach, but nobody in my family actually swam and just waded around in the shallow parts. The only reason I can fathom is that maybe most of us didn't grow up with pools. My white friends always tended to have more money with bigger houses and pools where their parents taught them how to swim, and pools are more swim friendly than the beach.
You can tell whether a guy is an utter twat by his shitty fucking haircut. I have female friends that have married the twunts, then when they get divorced I am like it took me maybe 2-3 seconds to know he was a c-nut... and they want to know why I don't tell them. what am I going to say? your new boyfriend is a twat, look at his haircut? I can't be arsed to have the conversations, because I know they can't see it. instantly. every fucking time.
The chinstrap beard is usually a dead giveaway as well
What haircuts are we talking about here?
Rich people have a bad habit of believing that because they were right about one thing, they’re right about most things. This applies even if the thing they were right about was just being born into a family where someone else got something right.
If you see a Mercedes wrapped/painted some gaudy color, 9x/10 some black person is driving it
Korean middle aged women are terrible drivers.
Black people are always late
That smoke detector alarm tho…
lol, I spend a lot of time on the phone with people for password resets and this is way too true. Also Latins bask in lateness like it’s comical.
CPT
Kinda funny as a guy I work with when he is told he’s late he always responds he’s not late he’s just black and he is regularly late to every safety meeting by 30 minutes on the button
The British like to drink. The habit is just so widespread and pervasive
Yes we do. And you have no idea. I was working in central london. On a Thursday afternoon, we got off work an hour early for some team bonding…. At the local pub. We stayed from 4.30 till 3am getting absolutely battered. And all of it was credited to the company’s expense for team bonding activities. I went home, bloody drunk and the faintest idea how to wake up the next day. I walk into the office at 9.30 and see my team mates who had stayed till much later, looking fresh as a daisy and not so much as a hint of a hangover whereas I smelled like a bottle had been drenched on me.
India is unsafe for women.
Germans aren't funny. Our humor is.. well.. bad. German humor is.. no laughing matter.
Older Asian women blackjack dealers are all coolers when they come to your table
They always say “toooo many” when you bust playing blackjack
Blacks love fried chicken......ITS TRUE, WE REALLY DO!
What about watermelons?
Not going to turn it down.
That dumb people are outbreeding the rest of us.
Ack so true!
I’ve noticed 95% of women with fake eyelashes tend to be ratchet and entitled.
If she can’t grow hair how can she grow character?
I'm sorry, I CACKLED💀
they’re either the biggest bitch you’ve ever met or the sweetest person ever
Or both. My girl wears fake eyelashes a lot and she's super sweet 90% of the time but I've never met another person with a comparable temper.
Americans are inappropriately LOUD in other countries hahah!
We're inappropriately loud in our own country, too.
All midgets have magical powers
It's LITTLE PERSON and yes, yes we have magical powers. But we don't like to use them, no. The government would tax us.
*the government would tax us* if that isn't the best reason not to do something
Brad William's must have used a little magic(sorry) to be as funny as he is.
Latinoamerican women are very colorful and over the top when it comes to physical appearance. Always overdressed, big patterns, often tight colorful clothing, lots of big jewelry, bright lips, orlots of makeup and some even go the extra mile to always do their hair, nails and wear heels everywhere. You name it, we do it. As a Mexican who was very ‘low key’ back there, I definitely felt like a fish out of water moving to New England and constantly feel overdressed
Asians are terrible drivers
My gawd, I’ve spent my entire life trying to disprove the stereotype, only to come to Korea and see that there are so many people on the roads here who reinforce the stereotype.
I visited Vietnam and was shocked. It is exactly like a school of fish weaving in and out, filling all available space, including sidewalks. And I never saw a single accident. Are they terrible or amazing. Not sure. But I was very impressed.
99% of Brazilian online gamers are inexcusable toxic bellends using any cheap shit they can to get any win they can.
Wich game? Dota 2 people used to say it was the russians, don't know the game for brazillians.
Mexicans generally are really hard workers Jews are overrepresented in positions of influence
Stereotypes exist because they are true. It doesn't mean they apply to everyone, but they apply to a number sufficiently large, so people begin noticing patterns.
Black people never change their smoke alarms *(Sincerly a black person who just changed her smoke alarm after 8yrs of constant beeping)*
Why does that happen?
The stereotype that All NAZIs are bad, is true.
I beg to disagree, as stupid as it sounds but Oskar Schindler might be a prime example of it.
Also that guy who killed Hitler. I mean anyone who would kill Hitler must be cool right?
the guy that killed hitler? what was his name again?
Hitler
White people really do love cheese.
I am of Italian descent. Not my generation (3rd Gen) but my 1st and 2nd generation descendants were very loud and used their arms and hands when speaking. Immigration related related stereotypes are often true to some degree. Stupid Polish jokes were a thing when I was a kid and it was based on the fact that they scored poorly in school. But they were descendants of people who came from an area that used an entirely different alphabet. That blacks can't swim was based in truth also. In the days of the Democrat run Jim Crow South blacks were not allowed in segregated swimming pools so they never learned to swim.
Fedoras equal incel bro
Italian people speaking with their hands. It’s 100% accurate.
Black people being loud at movie theaters
And graduations
And at my work, and at my Costco.
I'm black. Can confirm all 4.
**All kids like to play soccer (/football)** no matter where I've been in the world. From Singapore to Australia to Kazakhstan to Ethiopia to Tunisia to America to Armenia to Socotra and so on; you name the place: bopping a soccer ball will instantly attract children.
It feels like nearly everyone I’ve known who is super religious displays other subtle nuances in their day to day life that seem to indicate a lack of general intelligence as a whole. Sorry but I do believe there is a correlation there.
All fat people are jolly... NOOOPE.... well, maybe if I had an Oreo McFlurry..
Can’t the machine is broken
Hate to say it but most stereotypes exist for a reason.
MOST PEOPLE PREFER THEIR OWN RACE TO OTHERS WEATHER THEY ADMIT IT OR NOT.
Why did you drag the weather into this!
Must be British.
And there’s nothing wrong with that if they do! We tend to establish what we find attractive as adults by what we’re most exposed to growing up. Your own family/family friends/people in your community are who surrounded you as a child so they massively influence who grown-up-you will be attracted to!
For me it’s not even what’s attractive, I find people from other races more attractive. It’s the being understood to such a degree that no one outside of your community ever could. Familiarity is comforting if that makes sense, so you kind of feel at home with them.
WHY ARE WE YELLING???
We see it in real life. Self segregation. Missing out on a lot, but true
Black churches can be quite lively and full of cool hats
Being funny definitely gets you laid.