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British Stereotypes

posted 11 years ago by HelveticaFont
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There's a post asking about the stereotypes of Americans and how they are viewed from outside the US.

Here's an opportunity for people from outside of Britain to share the stereotypes that they have about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

It's not necessarily you're experiences if you've visited but what you feel the stereotypes are that are held up.

This can be Britain as a whole or it can be the individual stereotypes for each country.

[–] mikeyg24 11 years ago

I'm from the Republic of Ireland so have been to Britain many times and there are many living here. I'm not even going to touch NI but I didn't find the Scots stingy, I do find the English quite stiffly upper lipped and the Welsh do love to sing. They're also arrogant as *beep* when it comes to rugby. Or at least they were till a week ago he he he...

Yours sincerely, General Joseph Liebgott

[–] jh66 11 years ago

I'm a northerner and up here they are mostly working (and many middle) class- no 'stiff upper lips'? But we are talking ridiculous clichés I suppose.

I don't encounter many rugby fans either? Irish stereotypes, we could go on and on...

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[–] HelveticaFont 11 years ago

I might be getting ahead of myself but stiff upper lipped and rugby go hand in hand in Britain if that's your only insight.

Football on the other hand attracts a different crowd.

[–] mikeyg24 11 years ago

have been to Britain many times and there are many living here.

I think I made it clear I had general insights. In fact my point about rugby it wasn't even a British insight, so I think you contrived your response a little bit there. It was the Welsh I associated with arrogance when it came to rugby, a remark intended with levity, and the English with being stiff upper lipped. However were we to take your contrivance as fact I would have to disagree that a stiff upper lip and rugby going hand in hand is a fact in the modern game. Yes compared to football the sport in general enjoys a higher level of professionalism, respect and dignity, I stress the word higher level not a flawless one, but that has nothing to do with the class distinction of old which except for a few stuck up areas of the British Isles is all but ancient history.

Yours sincerely, General Joseph Liebgott

[–] HelveticaFont 11 years ago

We? There's more than one of you? ha.

[–] mikeyg24 11 years ago

Witty to say the least.

[–] lmtopeka 11 years ago

Bad teeth, bad food, rains all the time, everyone speaks with a cockney accent, everyone is pale, soccer hooliganism, guys wear bowler hats and tweed coats, people saying cheerio and bloody, everyone stops whatever it is they are doing at the same time of every day to drink tea, everyone is sarcastic. These are just what came to me in 30 seconds. Generalizations of people are silly though whether they no matter who they are about.

[–] HOKfilms 9 years ago

Honestly, Americans dont really think of anything outside America.

and to contribute to the thread... Bad teeth.

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