Regional Stereotypes - Page 3

KSig RC · #1 06-28-2002, 11:55 AM

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Originally posted by DeeGeePee
And when I went to school in Philly, which is only 2 hours away, they acted like I was talking a whole nother language. Local dialect is a serious thing.

hahahhaha - obviously dude

Peaches-n-Cream · #2 06-28-2002, 02:42 PM

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Originally posted by bets
ARKANSAS! Enough Said! (I hope!)

LOL!

I'm from New York City. People always tell me that they are so surprised that I'm nice.

especially the people from Arkansas.

ivysis · #3 06-29-2002, 01:02 AM

Colorado....Do you ski? (not everyone skis. Im from south east CO, theres not even much snow!)

or

Boulder, CO... how are the riots? what do you protest? have you ever been tear gassed? you must be high...etc.

I am currently living in Oklahoma (small south eastern OK town)...
lets just say most of those stereotypes are real. Its a city and my neighbors have a rooster and a goat. nuff said.

j_gets · #4 06-29-2002, 04:10 AM

I'm from Idaho. Actual questions I've been asked, from most frequent to least:

Do you grow potatos?
Doesn't eating potatos for every meal get old after a while?
Is there TV?
Are there cars there?
What kind of tractor do you have?
Is it hard to ride a horse? and where's your hat? (referring to cowboy hat)
Do you have to go a long way to get food?

J

Kevin · #5 06-29-2002, 08:26 AM

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I am currently living in Oklahoma (small south eastern OK town)...lets just say most of those stereotypes are real. Its a city and my neighbors have a rooster and a goat. nuff said.

I'm from Edmond, so these things don't really apply so much here (Edmond, AKA yuppie town!) I was driving on HWY 33 the other day from here to Cushing.... I think I noticed a contest of who could have the strangest stuff sitting in their front yards.

1st place: Random office desks and an old automatic car wash brush apparatus with a for sale sign on it.

Runner up: Tables full of random stuff and a TOILET sitting out in the middle of the yard.

You just try to drive EXACTLY the speed limit (small town OK relies on speedtraps to actually have a GDP) and mind your business and you'll make it ok.

ivysis · #6 06-29-2002, 10:47 PM

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You just try to drive EXACTLY the speed limit (small town OK relies on speedtraps to actually have a GDP) and mind your business and you'll make it ok.

NO KIDDING!!! I thought people were joking, but we've been pulled over in Savannah and Stringtown now! These towns you sneeze and you miss!

I was in a parade in Kinta today (helping with a D.A. campaign) and the highlight of the afternoon was a tobacco spitting contest!

Two words: Culture Shock

MoonStar17 · #7 06-30-2002, 01:08 AM

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Originally posted by ROWDYsister
"So you're from Miami, huh? Gonna bust a cap in our asses any time soon?"~kids from Miami are ghetto.

or "I'm not surprised that you're from Miami...you're such a girly girl." ~girls from Miami are prissy and high-maintenance, and kids in general are jet-set and think of themselves as ultracool.

I hope people don't actually think that we all whiz around in our Beemers and then plan drive-by shootings.

OMG YES!!!
I am from Miami, and was born here and raised here..and for some reason they all seem to think miami is ghetto or that you are cuban...

i am hispanic but in no way do i resemble what many people consider a "typical hispanic"
very frustrating...but i think you hit the stereotype reallllllly well!!!

MUPhiMuKHap · #8 07-01-2002, 02:14 PM

Hmmm not that I don't toally love Nebraska, but here at school it is so so so annoying when people say stupid stuff when I tell them that's where I'm from. Some of my personal favorites are:

Do you guys go cow tipping for fun?
Do you live on a farm?
Is there corn in your backyard??
People never believe me when I'm tell them I don't like meat at all, because I'm from Nebraska, I HAVE to love beef, apparently.....

And like Hootie said, I too have had people ask me if I have indoor plumbing etc. And not everyone in Nebraska is obsessed with the Huskers either!!! Arrgh!!

alphachiohmy · #9 07-01-2002, 04:25 PM

Random regional thoughts: Southern Illinois is stereotyped as very backward, rural and filled with people much like described by SigmaChiCard.. Some of that is true, but you find those characteristics of people all throughout the country. People only realize that Illinois in Chicago. After living in a St. Louis suburb, in Illinois, I refer to my hometown as a St. Louis suburb, rather than Southern Illinois. When you go out to a bar in St. Louis, a common question asked is "Where did you go to high school?" And finally, I went out to Los Angeles last summer and when people knew we were from St. Louis, the first two words out of their mouth were Nelly and Mark McGwire.

On another hand, I think I don't conform to stereotypes. My tastes and experiences in life are pretty diverse. I live in the third largest city in the U.S. but have lived in small towns as well and even overseas. I go out in the city but also can go to a small town beer festival or cornfield party and have a blast. I like everything from country music to Tom Petty to Nelly. I think its all about life experience and how it defines you as a person.

brownsugakdphi · #10 07-01-2002, 06:47 PM

Well, just some things... not really stereotypes but more like mistakes. A lot of people-more often than not think Chicago is its own state.... I was at a sorority convention and a sister asked where I was from, after replying Chicago, she was like "what's up East Coast!" hmmm last time I checked, Chicago was dead smack in the middle of the Midwest.

FuzzieAlum · #11 07-01-2002, 07:00 PM

I know that Chicago is in the Midwest, you know that Chicago is in the Midwest ... people out here on the West Coast don't. I've argued with people here that yes, Cleveland is the Midwest, and they insist Ohio is the East Coast! (Even though they realize it doesn't touch the Atlantic Ocean.) And I've heard them say the same of Chicago. To people out here, once you get east of the Dakotas, you're "out East." It's soooo aggravating.

KappaStargirl · #12 07-01-2002, 08:50 PM

Saturday night I was at a Kappa Alum Association barbecue and one lady who I had only met once asked me "Where did you go to school?" I replied that I had just gotten my Masters from the University of Pittsburgh and that's where I had moved from, but I initiated at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin. She replied "Oh, you're one of those smart kids from the eastern schools." I was too tired to explain that Wisconsin is not eastern, but it's nice to be thought of as smart anyway.

douthit · #13 07-01-2002, 10:11 PM

"You're from Montana, do you guys ride horses to school?"

And everyone thinks that I must have grown up on a ranch.

The Freemen and Unabomber don't help our reputation either!

AngelPhiSig · #14 07-01-2002, 11:37 PM

All I have to say is-

Most things you hear about Pittsburgh, are in fact, true.

We do say Yinz
We do eat chipped ham
We do drink our Irn City and Rolling Rock on the Sa' Side
Anything you read in the "Sam McCools - Pittsburghese" book is old fashioned, we dont use it any more

J'eet yet? is commonly answered by No, j'ew? And then a trip to the Gynt Iggle for food.

Sliberty is not a good place to raise a family...

But if it was red up, it would be nice.

We dont feel the need to take up conversation space with the words "to be", as in My room needs to be cleaned, we say- My room needs cleaned, or moreso, my room needs red up.

We drink wutter and warsh our clothes.

Yup...

hehe

beachbunnyjenn · #15 07-02-2002, 05:24 PM

I was born and raised in Cali, I love it here and all the stereotypes get pretty annoying. Not everybody here in Cali is a surfer dude and talks like a surfer dude...and yes there are a lot of blondes here (me included) but we aren't all dumb...and we don't all lay on the beach all the time either. Also yes we are laid-back but you can't just step all over us either.

~*Jenn*~