I will eat them, but really? Breakfast, lunch, AND dinner? I call that doing the most...LOL

I just wanna say I'm doing a program in Spain with some friends from my school for 2 months and I've been asked TWICE to make fried chicken........

...so I did and it was THE BOMB! I can't help it! I can throw down in the kitchen & they know it!

So that's what it's been the whole time??

Jus cuz I got dredds you think I have access to all the weed in da hood???

Damn. :D

Having lived abroad for the last couple of years, I've gotten so many stereotypes from so many people.

-"You're American? You're not fat!" or "You're awfully thin for an American" which makes me laugh, as I'm a size 12, a pretty average (even big) size for an American.

- That Americans are dumb. Um...no. I'm studying at one of the top universities in your country, shouldn't that tell you something?

- I must love George Bush (I was living abroad when his image really took a dive). Definitely not. I've never been a republican, and I'm passionately anti-war.

- I hate all food that isn't deep fried and bland. What? Seriously? I'll try just about anything and I love spicy food.

- Evangelical pro-life christian (what my best friend in Scotland called "Happy Clappy Christian") . Nope, sorry, Roman Catholic.

- That we all live on the coast, or live in NYC or LA. There is a serious misunderstanding of the regions and enormity of the United States. I got "do you live in a beach house?" all the time. This is mostly because a lot of EU countries get American soap operas and bad MTV docudramas (the Hills).

- American colleges are really easy and that anyone can go to college. Now, this is partially true if you look at the difference in admission requirements and placement system in the UK...not every student can go to University and university placements are really coveted because there are far fewer universities than there are in the US. In the US, most students can go to some form of higher ed, but the variety of options/degrees/accreditation is much wider. It is pretty insulting because I worked plenty hard for my BA, thank you.

Chitlins. Blech. :s

I only get a chance to eat them once a year. I go back to MN. to visit my parents for the holidays every year, and my mom and I are the only two in the family that will eat them. So I have to savor every chitlin moment.:D

Can't forget the hot sauce.:D

I'm with you 100% in this.

What about black people who have dogs and cats?

I got asked if I am Italian because I talk with my hands a lot. The guy was serious.

I actually get that a lot!

Others I get a lot:

I have thick, dark, curly hair therefore I must Italian, Hispanic, or Jewish! (I don't understand how they figure out these combinations but I am none of the above! I am actually of Swedish descent)

I get told that I can't really be Swedish because I don't have blue eyes or blond hair! (Really? Have you ever met a Swedish person?)

I had a group of women once compliment me on my excellent English, enunciation and grammar. They kept complimenting my mom and the Mexican school system for making sure we learn excellent English.

I did so enjoy telling them that I was born & raised in the US, went to public schools for most of my life and that the reason I spoke so eloquently is because my mother raised me to speak that way. :) They shut up after that.

We don't have cats and the only dogs fit to own are pit bulls. :rolleyes:

Lol that is what I would say. The only people I've ever met that were Swedish, were blue eyed/blonde haired people, or people who were born in Sweden but their parents are of Iranian descent (which apparently is a really common occurance).

--I get the whole "you must really be white" cause I don't speak with an accent or broken English.
--That I have 50 million kids, and have a gang member boyfriend
--My family are all gang members or have connections with drugs
--That i'm illegal (not in the slightest)
--That my family are illegals (not true either)
--"Oh you're Mexican? But you're really white to be Mexican" yeah, cause apparently there can't be light skinned Mexicans :rolleyes:

Why do Mexican eat tamales for Christmas?
So they have something to unwrap

Ethnic Scandinavians are also known for being redheads, even though most attribute it to Scottish and the Irish, when in actuality it was introduced to the British Isles by Norse invaders and settlers. Scandinavians are also mistaken for always being tall, which is not traditional in the genetic makeup. The native Scandinavians (The Sami, formerly called Laplanders) are an excellent example of this. Though with people traveling and moving more, the genetic markers are fading.

Funny how after reading this thread I was driving my baby sisters (who are 10). We got into an accident. We're sitting on the side of the road and the people in the other car start telling me how "This is awful and they have daughters too".

Dude. I don't look a day over 18 IF THAT (I'm 24 and babyfaced to death). I'm wearing a tank top and shorts and converse and my tummy's showing a little (it was teeny bopper day cos the laundry :o). It was made very clear prior to the comments that I was going to grad school (not that grad school students don't have kids, but dang!). Why do they automatically think these are my kids?

It's fun to be black!

I'm "cursed" (for now, at least) with babyfaced-ness also. When I was 18, still looking 13, I was working at a bank. Around Mothers Day a customer comes in and as she's leaving I told her:

me: Happy Mother's Day!
her: Thank you! And happy mother's day to you too! Wait - how old are you?
me: Uhh, 18....
her: OH! You better NOT be a mother!

I don't know how many people have told me "It's a good thing instead of having babies you're going to grad school" as if to say black women are either pregnant or doing something with their lives ... CERTAINLY not both at the same time, and nobody is not pregnant and also not doing anything worthwhile with their time and energy.

That I inhaled glue and gold spray paint to get high in middle school
That I dance like carlton and think I'm being clever.
That I watch Mad About You and Friends
That I spend my vacations coked out of my mind (not true, I'm allergic to cocoa. A god damned reese's cup will send me to the er)

lol lol lol I swear this post just made me swallow my own saliva the wrong way.....coughing...

I also have the misfortune of looking 10 years younger than I am. (Yeah yeah, I'll enjoy it when I'm 60. But right now, I'm getting mistaken for a 6th grader and I don't enjoy that). When I was 14, I took my nephew to Sam Goody's in the mall to look at CDs while my sister was in another store and I got soooooo many dirty looks and heard mutterings about "babies having babies." :confused: I WAS 14!!!! They couldn't even mistake him for my baby brother or something??

Actually, I get this a lot and it is true, but my cursive is proper because of my mother not the nuns.

This isn't racial its more my state and what school I go to: I must be a vegan who only eats organic, makes my own clothing/soap, am a member of PETA (and some other environmental or animal rights group), is tree hugger and smokes weed regularly. Only thing close to the truth is being a tree hugger, but that is a little extreme for me.

Because I go to church I must be an evangelist who will shove my beliefs down your throat and teach my children to not have a brain. (Try again)

I was in NoColorderFolkFor100MilesInEveryDirection, Missouri this weekend, so I was sure to defeat every stereotype anyone could try to form. I smiled at everyone, waved, said hi, dressed decently, didn't talk about anything bad in public, and wished everyone a good day when I left somewhere.. all in proper English.

I lived!

I don't drink malt liquor (actually I don't drink at all)

I don't wear straight bill baseball caps (can't stand those things)

I don't wear Timberland boots with the "brand new" tag still on the side

I don't wear my pants sagging

I like all kinds of music not just rap (jazz flavors especially)

I do like chicken and watermelon, but who doesn't?

OMG that happened to me at Sam's when I was 15. I had my baby cousin with me at Sam's Club, and this old man kept staring at me. When my mom came back to our table with food, the man goes up to my mom and says "isn't it a joy to be a grandmother?" and then gives me a funny look. I didn't get it at first but a little later I was :confused: I was 15...and probably didn't look a day over 11, and he automatically thought I was the mother?

^^^Girl, the things we go through watching other people's kids! Now, when I actually have some of my own, I bet people will think they are my siblings or cousins. :rolleyes:
You dont be drankin that malt licka?? You aint keepin it real! :p

Ugh, EVERYONE pulls that one on me! "When you get older, you'll be happy!" Okay but now I'm a 20-something that looks like she's in middle school! When I started college, it was funny. However, when I say "I just graduated" to a stranger and they ask "From where? Middle school? High school?" it pisses me off! But I don't believe in make-up just yet so there's no way of "making myself look older". I just have to constantly act like an adult and hope that people get the picture.

BACK ON TOPIC... One day, my friends son was quizzing me as part of a Healthy Living Unit he is working on at school. He asked me "If you wanted a snack, would you grab a piece of watermelon or a bag of chips?" I answered "bag of chips" and his mother chimes in "DON'T LIE! YOU KNOW BLACK PEOPLE LOVE WATERMELON!" I guess she's getting her kids started early with stereotyping :rolleyes: (he's only 7)

Maybe people just thought I was white trash....which would not be hard to think of in the town I live in! I cannot tell you how many times I have been out with a younger kid, cousin, babysitting, whatever, and I got some comment about "my kid". The comments started when I was around 13! :eek:

and "Rockwiellers"

That's too funny....my dad's a vet, and he has quite a few rottweilers come in with the name of "Rock" or "Rocky", because, as their owners explain.... "He's a Rockweiler"

My first year going home from college, I was using my school ID through the airport (you could do that back then) and I got detained--he thought I was too young to be in college so my ID must be fake. :rolleyes:
LOL I forgot about those. :p It seems like "Rotts" are out and Pits are the "in" dog. I didn't know breeds could go out of style.

I've actually gotten that kind of attitude on GC. :rolleyes:

That would make two of us, MC.

When I was a senior in college, I was continually asked, "what year are you in?" to which I responded, "Senior." Then, invariably, came, "Oh, where are you going to college?" Granted, I was younger than your average graduate, but it drove me crazy anyhow.

But yes, you do appreciate it as you get older. I've been carded three times in the last two years, and I am very, very grateful! Last week, I went to my ob-gyn, and the receptionist was shocked at my age. Look at it as good genes - my mother didn't age a bit until my daddy died.

Another somewhat racial stereotype is having red hair. I am lucky, but rubbing my hair is not going to help you! I don't have a bad temper, but if accused of it too much, I could be tempted to make an exception. Just because my eyes are hazel, not blue, does NOT mean I bleach my hair!

I could go on forever about redheaded rumors, but you all get the idea.

That is so sad. I remember someone insisting Britney Spears had blue eyes just b/c her hair was blonde. :rolleyes:

Hair and eyes are NOT connected.

I'm Italian and use hand gestures ALL the time.

OMG THANK YOU! I'm getting sick of it. I know I've shared this story before, so I'll give the short version: I'm about to be 21 and I was mistaken for a 13 year old. I went to buy a student discounted ticket to a high school basketball game (my brother was playing in the Jazz Band), and the lady asked me if that discount "would be for high school or grade school?" Really lady?! I was wearing an Illinois hoodie too. Not that college kids are the only ones who wear those, but I think I would have helped. I really need to start wearing making everywhere I go...

Yes, I know I'll appreciate it later...just not right now... lol

I am beginning to appreciate it now, at 28. Several of my girlfriends smoke and worship the sun, and you can tell. Most people, when we're out, guess that they're 28, and that I'm 22 or so. It's great! It really is good genes--my grandmothers all aged really well and are in great physical shape too.

This thread is quickly turning into a "I look younger than my age" thread, but anyway...

I was traveling from TX to NY and my plane seat was in the Emergency Exit aisle. The stewardess walks by and asks, "Oooohhh and how old are you?" I told her "21" and when I saw the shocked look on her face I added "...I can show you my ID if you need me to!" She told me it was unnecessary. However, at the time I didn't know how old you had to be to sit in an exit seat and I just assumed that it was 18. Then an even younger girl sat next to me and upon finding out that this girl is 13, the stewardess told her that you need to be at least 15! I didn't know I looked that young (apparently 14)!

My best friend was asked if she had a chaperone with her when trying to board a plane and she was 19 (you have to be 13 to fly alone) so I guess someone else got the shorter end of the stick!