Common misconceptions about your country?

[icybaby]

Russia.

That ppl drink vodka 24\7 , play balalaika and of course bears r everythere. 

[Marcanthony]

i was quoting but it din't quote

im getting tired of this bs jordan

[Marcanthony]

3 hours ago, iAlwaysSingLive said:

That Lithuania and Latvia are the same country. 

TIL there are countries called Lithuahia and Latia

[Marcanthony]

22 minutes ago, zenden said:

Russia.

That ppl drink vodka 24\7 , play balalaika and of course bears r everythere. 

I've heard that if you're feeling scared by the tough guys or if someone is following you in Russia just stand near one of those sweet Russian moms and they will leave you

[BabyBabyBay]

2 hours ago, Corso said:

Well I look like that,

but no - most Scottish men don’t look like this.

I date a lot of Scottish guys, they all fall in love me, wanna be added to the list? 

[Exaholic]

Just now, BabyBabyBay said:

I date a lot of Scottish guys, they all fall in love me, wanna be added to the list? 

I don’t wanna be another number on your list, soz.

[icybaby]

12 minutes ago, Marcanthony said:

I've heard that if you're feeling scared by the tough guys or if someone is following you in Russia just stand near one of those sweet Russian moms and they will leave you

never heard of it

[BabyBabyBay]

A lot of Brits are dumb and racist and hateable, so I don't think that perception is very false 

 

I'll never forget going to a rooftop bar in LA and we told them we were from London, they said "Ooh someone was just here from London, do you know them?"

Yes hun, London is basically just one street of 10 of us. England is a village and we all fk each other to keep the population going. 

[BabyBabyBay]

3 minutes ago, Corso said:

I don’t wanna be another number on your list, soz.

What is this unfamiliar feeling? Is it......rejection? 

Spoiler

It's more names on a list than a number, but whatever 

 

[PokemonSpears]

The thread derailed but, here, from Mexico, I don't really know what y'all think, but the most common stuff I've heard over the years, is maybe that people from other places think we all dress like this

or that we only eat tacos and chilli peppers, or that the whole country is a desert, or that there aren't Mexican people with fair skin (we have a mixture of everything, there's definitely some regions where a certain skin tone is the dominant, but we have everything from people with very dark skin to blonde, blue-eyed people).

But the biggest misconception would probably be that "5 de mayo" is an important holiday for us, when we don't even get the day off at most places. Our Independence Day is in September, and if any, the other celebration would be in November "Aniversario de la Revolución".

 

[Towelney]

1 hour ago, BabyBabyBay said:

A lot of Brits are dumb and racist and hateable, so I don't think that perception is very false 

 

I'll never forget going to a rooftop bar in LA and we told them we were from London, they said "Ooh someone was just here from London, do you know them?"

Yes hun, London is basically just one street of 10 of us. England is a village and we all fk each other to keep the population going. 

 

[MrPieceOfMe]

54 minutes ago, PokemonSpears said:

The thread derailed but, here, from Mexico, I don't really know what y'all think, but the most common stuff I've heard over the years, is maybe that people from other places think we all dress like this

or that we only eat tacos and chilli peppers, or that the whole country is a desert, or that there aren't Mexican people with fair skin (we have a mixture of everything, there's definitely some regions where a certain skin tone is the dominant, but we have everything from people with very dark skin to blonde, blue-eyed people).

But the biggest misconception would probably be that "5 de mayo" is an important holiday for us, when we don't even get the day off at most places. Our Independence Day is in September, and if any, the other celebration would be in November "Aniversario de la Revolución".

 

I feel bad, because I really thought you mexicans dress like this and eat almost only tacos and chilli 

[britisthecolor]

for turkey:

we speak in arabic. (actually most of us don't even know arabic.)

all (or almost all) women wear hijab. (there are a lot of women who wear hijab but there are also a lot of women who wear more revealing clothes; shorts, crop tops...sometimes we are even physically attacked for it but that's another subject. )

we are ruled by sharia law. (muslims are the majority and they are more privileged unfortunately but the country is not ruled by sharia law.and we are not as strict and religious as arabs even though there is a group of people who try to live like them because they think that that's what muslims should do.btw I say we but I am an atheist.)

these are the first things that came to my mind because the people who have had a conversation with americans etc say that they (the foreigners) are surprised when they hear that our mother language is turkish and when they see us wearing tank tops etc.

[britisthecolor]

1 hour ago, PokemonSpears said:

(we have a mixture of everything, there's definitely some regions where a certain skin tone is the dominant, but we have everything from people with very dark skin to blonde, blue-eyed people).

 

 

like eugenio siller <3<3<3

[Adriannn]

MÉXICO:

- We all wear hats

- Cancun is the only touristic spot 

- We eat nothing but tacos 

- Tacos are big and with a hard tortilla 

[Adriannn]

1 hour ago, PokemonSpears said:

The thread derailed but, here, from Mexico, I don't really know what y'all think, but the most common stuff I've heard over the years, is maybe that people from other places think we all dress like this

or that we only eat tacos and chilli peppers, or that the whole country is a desert, or that there aren't Mexican people with fair skin (we have a mixture of everything, there's definitely some regions where a certain skin tone is the dominant, but we have everything from people with very dark skin to blonde, blue-eyed people).

But the biggest misconception would probably be that "5 de mayo" is an important holiday for us, when we don't even get the day off at most places. Our Independence Day is in September, and if any, the other celebration would be in November "Aniversario de la Revolución".

 

Tu post es mucho mejor que el mío, paisano 😎

[PokemonSpears]

2 minutes ago, britisthecolor said:

like eugenio siller <3<3<3

I was like who? But I remembered now

Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of people, especially within the entertainment industry, that are Mexican but their parents are from another country, I don't know if that's Eugenio's case. But still, there's a lot of other people whose European heritage takes back from many, many generations ago. Actually, at this point is very difficult to find someone that is 100% "Mexican" or native or however you wanna call it. Since Spain conquered this territory and they, along with other European countries colonized America, our races mixed up to the point we all have European and American blood.

This chart shows at the bottom the current diversity of skin tones in our country

 

[PokemonSpears]

3 minutes ago, Adriannn said:

Tu post es mucho mejor que el mío, paisano 😎

sí iba a poner lo de Cancún también

[Sinned_88]

- We all wear clogs 

- We all smoke weed

- We all live below sea level

 

[BabyBabyBay]

1 hour ago, Towelney said:

 

What is this monstrosity, I thought that was James Corden