Comments on: Follow-up: What Europeans Think of Each Other

By: EvropaInvicta!!

EvropaInvicta!! — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:46:31 +0000

For Niggers, Muslims and Browns: YOU MUST STAY OUT OF EUROPE!!!
Europe is a sacred land only for whites and all non-whites who live here should be exterminated!!!
You come here and you have the arrogance to claim rights, that you haven’t!!!
Also you rape white european women and procreate mulatto bastards.
So, fuck off out of my beatiful Europe, because you are ruining it!!!!!!! >:(

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By: David

David — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:24:57 +0000

I’ve visited a number of European nations and England is clearly the weirdest. It is simultaneously the most xenophobic and yet the least racist nation I have visited and has a huge napoleon complex. The xenophobia isn’t so much hatred as contempt and pity for not having the good fortune of being born English.

By: Elsa

Elsa — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:22:07 +0000

And what about the Icelandic population with their Zenophobia?

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:24:54 +0000

Won’t anyone tell this idiot that he spelled half those sentences incorrectly?

Honestly, this is pitiful…

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:21:02 +0000

Republique Francaise – your comments on being black in Europe. I think it depends how dark skinned you are.

I’m British of Jamaican origin, and have experienced racism in Europe. However, my cousin who is mixed race, and although clearly mixed race, is light skinned (our Jamaican ancestry has some white in the mix), with hazel eyes, and has never experienced any racism, in Europe (travelled extensively), and doesn’t know what I’m on about. Growing up in a white rural area, in Wales, she did not experience racism. We think it’s because there were not many blacks in her area, and everybody wanted to be friends with the only mixed race girl and boy in school.

She only experienced racism, for the first time in her life, when she visited America. In Europe, she is recorgnised as being at least half european, and doesn’t get the racism at all. In America, she’s black.

By: szopen

szopen — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:36:22 +0000

But there really are thousands of such jokes and they are told, it’s just not in the company of foreigners. I bet you haven’t heard much jokes about Blacks and Jews either — it’s people get hyperpolitical-correct when dealiing with foreigners. Except for Russian jokes I guess )

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22polak%2C+niemiec%2C+rusek%22

44 thousand results.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:38:28 +0000

I find stuff like this really entertaining. I’m British and i think one of these main reasons losts of us would be upset about being called European, is because it’s such a hard concept for us to grasp, being so cut of from the mainlaind Europe (besides France, and you got those English-French stereotypes perfect by the way!) Not only this, but alot of us don’t speak any other language but our own. This really embarrasses me, so I’m trying to learn German.
I agree with Will McA that alot of us Brits do distrust anything further than the UK, but I don’t really know of any particular hatred we have for anyone, besides the french, but we like to tease others based on stereotypes. Especially within ourselves, for example, people with welsh heritage where I come from get some stick about sex with sheep, and we naturally expect all Scotts to be agressive and have red hair. Again, pretty embarrassed that we’re considered to be very arrogant… We probably come across that way to tourists because outside of London we don’t get so many tourists from other countries so we don’t know how to receive them, lol.
Oh, and it really annoys me but quite a few people I know dislike the poles because they apparently, Quote unquote, “come over here and steal all our jobs”

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:27:57 +0000

So far in my European travels, I have found that everyone so far has been very friendly and helpful. I thought Parisians were friendly and curious about Americans. I usually spoke French first but they usually picked up on my accent and spoke back to me in English. I loved how one girl said her dream was to travel on Route 66. Italians seemed to be very flamboyant and like to draw attention to themselves. Being blonde (and half Norwegian), the men definately tended to stare at me very intently to an almost uncomfortable degree.
s to what the U.S. is like, I would say above all, Americans value their freedoms, especially the center of the country . A man’s proudest achievement is owning his own home. The northeast tends to have a snobbish attitude towards anyone who doesn’t live on the east or west coast…viewing anyone in between as wasted space. Southerners have a very distinct class system…the rich are very rich, and the poor are very poor. There is a lot of distrust between the blacks and whites. The upper Midwest carries on its blue collar heritage. Its hard to tell the doctors from the factory worker because those that are wealthy drive the same cars as the middle class workers. They tend to be more practical however, and they love beer and brats. Its not uncommon to find all German, Polish or Norwegian communities that still celebrate their heritage. The upper Northwest tends to be a bit more progressive politically and environmentally and they love to tax EVERYTHING. They tend to be naturalists…one might call them hippies. The southwest still kind of lives up to its wild west history. You’ve got the ranchers, fiercely protective of their rights and lands. There is a lot of strife between the whites of the region and the large influx of Hispanic immigrants. California…well, that’s a story on its own. Los Angelas is very flamboyant, San Francisco is expensive and San Diego seems like it is part of another country. Then there is the bible belt, the south Midwest, were teenage pregnancy, poverty and stupid people abound. They are very traditional, go to church every week but somehow everyone is on their 2nd or 3rd marriage. However, I would say they are the most friendly and welcoming. If there is a natural disaster, they are the first to donate money or supplies and help with the cleanup.

By: Fanny

Fanny — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:24:34 +0000

Was fun dissecting these cultural differences.
How about the Belgians?

http://meandmisterjones.com/blog/when-good-is-not-good-enough/

By: Will McA

Will McA — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:28:42 +0000

I get your humour, I know it’s all just generalised statements but it’s still funny, and partly true.

What I found especially funny is how many people, in trying to defend their country, conformed even more to their national stereotype. Especially Brits, reacting to the suggestion that Britain is a racist and xenophobic country by going on massive racist and xenophobic rants.

What is always funny is that not only are people’s stereotypes often far from the truth, but also what countries think other countries think of them is often far from the truth.

As a Brit I was brought up to think that the entire world hated us (except for a few Americans) and that as soon as you set food outside of the UK you will have a hard time as people shun and ignore you. This most definitely isn’t true, the countries where I expected to be hated the most actually quite liked us, i.e. Germany and France. But I think it adds to British xenophobia… lots of British people having a mistrust of anything outside of the UK because they’ve been brought up to believe that everyone else is burning with a deep hatred of all things British.

The funny stereotypes are the ones that come totally out of leftfield, usually old ones that nobody actually believes but are funny nonetheless. I recently found out that a French stereotype of the British is that they slay virgins. That one really is totally random.