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{{trope}}
[[File:Girls und Panzer - team captains.png|thumb|400px|link=Girls und Panzer|Even in a work where everyone's Japanese, you can still have National Stereotypes]]
{{quote|'' In heaven, the cops are British, the lovers are French, the food is Italian, the cars are German, and the whole thing is run by the Swiss.''▼
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|Traditional joke.}}
{{quote|''The happiest man on earth lives in a [[Big Fancy House|British house]], gets an [[American Dream|American salary]], has a [[Anime Chinese Girl|Chinese wife]], and eats [[Food Porn|Japanese food]].''
''The saddest man on earth lives in a [[Sitting on the Roof|Japanese house]], gets a [[Ethnic Menial Labor|Chinese salary]], has an [[Straw Feminist|American wife]], and eats [[Foreign Queasine|British food]].''
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Stereotypes having to do with people of specific nationalities. Some of them are a little bit [[Truth in Television]] (certain others more so), due to having some basis in reality. But remember, nations are not [[Planet of Hats|Planets Of Hats]]. (Except [[Country of Hats|when they are]].) And not all foreigners necessarily speak with a heavy accent, as many films and TV series seem to indicate.
For people who want to edit this trope
▲1. We don't claim that all these types of behaviour are exclusively typical of these nationalities, only that they are very common false or exaggerated perceptions of certain countries. Most of the time these images were created by popular books, comic strips, animated cartoons, films or propaganda, in addition to what people from the country in question may deliberately promote. We're listing stereotypes here, which means that we list all these recurring caricatural ideas about other nationalities that can be found regularly in any work of fiction.
▲2. So no racist or discriminatory quotes claiming: "Hey this stereotype is actually true" or aggressive, offended comments like "Hey, my country or people are nothing like that!" Most countries depict their neighbouring countries as if they are all either lazy, evil, dumb, primitive or arrogant. Nothing new there and it proves that these stereotypical impressions about other countries are universal, rather than tied to one specific country.
▲3. We can also miss proud, arrogant, patriotic boasting remarks like "Our country is uniquely very good at this or that", which is usually also very narrow-minded nationalism. Behavior can not be restricted to an entire race, culture or country of people. Not all Americans [[Crazy Survivalist|are fond of owning guns]], not all Britons [[Spot of Tea|like tea]], not all Frenchmen [[French Jerk|are arrogant]] and not all Asians [[All Asians Know Martial Arts|are martial arts experts]]. Each country has claims to have their own unique drinking culture (beer, wine, tea, coffee,...), particular cultural specialties and a reputation for being hospitable.
See also [[Hollywood Atlas]] and [[Funny Foreigner]].
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Compare [[Country of Hats]], the fun house mirror [[Sister Trope]] to [[National Stereotypes]].
{{examples|Examples of this trope by region:}}
== Africa ==
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* The continent itself calls images of [[Darkest Africa]] with jungles, savanna, diamond mines, undiscovered civilizations or creatures, elephants, lions, monkeys, gorillas, chimpanzees, baboons, pythons, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, leopards, hyenas, ostriches, crocodiles, antelopes, wildebeest, etc. Usually whenever people visit Africa they almost trip over all these omnipresent animals, which they invariably always encounter at a dangerous moment.
* Africans are generally assumed to an entire continent full of black people. If there are whites they are always [[Great White Hunter]] or [[Mighty Whitey]]: there are no other options. Apparently all the Coloreds, Indians, Asians, and all the rest of them have vanished overnight.
* Even long after the death of apartheid, white South Africans are still thought of as being dyed-in-the-bone racist and collectively lamenting the Good Old Days (cf the South African song out of ''[[Spitting Image]]''). To those who know white South
* Most traditional images of Africa have their roots in colonial times ([[Ancient Africa]]). Black Africans are depicted as primitive, childlike, superstitious people who still worship idols, believe in witchcraft and voodoo and live in huts. They defend themselves with spears and shields. White colonists can easily trick them by selling them worthless junk in exchange for valuable items [[Sufficiently Advanced Technology|or scare them with modern technology.]]
** Pygmy tribes are usually small, pathetic little dwarfs who are depicted as if they are actually children.
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== The Americas ==
=== The Arctic ===
* '''Inuit''' or Eskimo people always wear parkas, carve trinkets, live in igloos, go fishing with a harpoon, travel by sled and huskies and eat cod-liver oil. They are often believed to have an unusually large number of words for snow. (See:[[wikipedia:Eskimo words for snow|Wikipedia: Eskimo words for snow]]). This is however an urban legend.
* The men are usually called Nanook in reference to the famous documentary ''[[Nanook
=== [[Canada]] ===
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* Outside the U.S. a stereotypical image of the dumb, fat, lazy, ignorant, self-important, decadent, prudish, and clueless white American exists. Most of these images are based on American fast food culture which has spawned a lot of morbidly fat people. Of course, in foreign countries sitcom characters like [[All in The Family|Archie Bunker]], [[Married... with Children|Al Bundy]] and [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer Simpson]] are also often seen as representative of the typical American.
** American eat nothing else besides hamburgers, snacks, hot dogs, red beans, turkeys, donuts, apple pie and drink Coca Cola or beer.
* In (beat 'em up)
** Type 2 examples are more numerous, the most obvious being Rufus of ''[[Street Fighter]]'' fame, who is morbidly obese, [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|arrogant]], very dim, [[The Munchausen|chats absolute crap]] and has moves with sci-fi names (Galactic Tornado, Space Opera Symphony). Poison, also from ''[[Street Fighter]]'' (originally ''[[Final Fight]]'') is very much Type 2, and is presented as overtly sexual, sleazy, sassy, and obsessed with money. In ''[[Rival Schools]]'', one of the teams is made up of three American exchange students who sum up Type 2 almost completely: there's Roy, an arrogant, [[Absolute Xenophobe|xenophobic]] [[Jerkass]], Tiffany an ''outrageously'' costumed, [[Dumb Is Good|ditzy]] [[The Cheerleader|cheerleader]] complete with [[Valley Girl]] expressions and pneumatic boobs, and finally Boman - a [[Moral Guardians|preacher]] in training. A good Mixed Flavour Type example is Ken Masters of ''[[Street Fighter]]'', who is definitely cocky and brash, but is also an honourable person and shown to deeply care about his friends and family.
** ''Native'' American characters also show up a good deal in beat 'em ups, and are almost without exception presented as being [[In Harmony with Nature|nature-loving]], [[Magical Native American|spiritual]], calm, and dressed in [[Braids, Beads, and Buckskins|the archetypal attire]]. Examples include the towering Thunder Hawk of ''[[Street Fighter]]'', Michelle and Julia from ''[[Tekken]]'' and Nightwolf from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]''.
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*** America is infamous for its many [[Frivolous Lawsuit]]s. A common stereotype is that Americans will seize every opportunity to sue a company or other person for a ridiculous amount of money.
* Thanks to the numerous [[Wild West]] legends and westerns the country is still seen as [[Americans Are Cowboys]]. If a character in foreign fiction is depicted as being American, he is either a cowboy or at least wearing a cowboy hat. Even though the U.S. isn't the only country where carrying firearms is legal, the image of the "gun-obsessed American" is more common than with other nationalities. This again may partly be attributed to [[Americans Are Cowboys]] and numerous violent Hollywood action movies.
* Americans helped Europe win World War I and World War II, but people usually forget that the U.S collaborated with other countries to defeat the Axis. Many war movies and documentaries paint the wrong impression that America won these wars
* Thanks to Hollywood and American TV shows many people across the globe who never visited the U.S.A. in their entire life are familiar with many aspects of America's culture, including slang expressions like "yeah", "cool" or "...and I'm like..." The global dominance of the U.S.A's mass consumer imperialism is often criticized by other countries, because according to them American corporations destroy many of their own pittoresque and authentic national traditions. This is also the reason why snobbish people see the United States as a place where camp, kitsch and decadence are more prominent than actual art or sophistication. Disneyland, Hollywood, fast food, dumb TV shows, Las Vegas, their poor public school system and American's aggressive merchandising also contribute to this idea.
** From ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "30 Minutes Over Tokyo", when the family visits an American themed restaurant in Japan
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* Outside the USA many people have the impression that all Americans are devoutly obsessed with God and Jesus and will do anything to force their conservative ideals on others. Many foreign newscasts and documentaries often focus on the most extreme pious and God fearing fundamentalists.
** And while we're on the topic: Americans often come across as being very prudish about sexual topics, especially when compared with European countries. Films, TV series or celebrities with explicit nude and/or sex scenes that cause a scandal in the United States hardly raise an eyebrow in Europe.
*** On the other hand, American movies (especially from the 80s) and
* American women generally come in three flavors: A young, [[Woman in White|white]] or [[Lady in Red|red]]-clad blonde woman who's extremely [[Really Gets Around|slutty]] and [[Spoiled Brat|bossy]], a soccer mom, or a docile 50s [[Housewife]].
* When playing sport: all Americans will be playing baseball, American football or basketball, usually with some cheerleaders standing on the side.
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==== American West ====
* Hawaii: pretty girls with long black hair and grass skirts who enjoy hula dancing and put flower garlands ("leis") over every tourist's shoulders. The island has a very relaxed atmosphere with parties ("luas") and people drinking soft drinks while wearing Hawaiian shirts. And of course, the word "Aloha" most be mentioned or sung at least once!
* California: Best known for two cities, [[San Francisco]] and [[Los Angeles]], one theme park ([[Disneyland]]), and its beaches. The world knows the state especially for [[Hollywood California|Hollywood]] and its Silicon Valley, [[Hollywood
* When the rest of the country remembers the Pacific Northwest,
* New Mexico is lucky to be considered part of the Union at all,
* Arizona is the [[Wild Wild West]]. All rural and the population consists of outlaws, [[Cowboy Cop]]s, and bartenders.
* Utah, see [[Acceptable Religious Targets|Mormonism]], because nobody knows or mentions anything else about this state besides it's Salt Lake or, for older people, The Osmonds.
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* Everyone in Idaho lives in a potato field, Boise, or ''[[Deliverance]]'' country (where everyone is part of the Klan or the Aryan Nation).
* Montana is generally portrayed as having nothing but [[Crazy Survivalist|survivalists]], libertarian psychos, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and national parks/forests]]. Within Montana, people from Missoula are pot smoking hippie pantheists, people from Bozeman just moved there from California/Colorado/Washington, and eastern Montana is a frozen wasteland full of Norwegian Lutherans ([[Take That|in other words, North Dakota]]).
* There are, of course, no stereotypes of people from Wyoming since no one lives there. Well, maybe there are [[Brokeback Mountain|cowboys in the mountains]], but that's about it.
==== American Midwest ====
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* South Dakota is Mount Rushmore. Period. If anything remembers what state it's actually in. The rest of it is pine trees or wasteland. (In truth, eastern South Dakota has the overflow crowd of Norwegian Lutherans, for a lot of it.)
* Kansas is apparently where rationality, science and fun all go to be burned alive for witchcraft. It used to be just that big flat area people hurried through to get to the Rockies.
* Missouri... actually, no one cares about Missouri. Except for every few years in [[Baseball|October]]. Or if you're a meth addict. [[The Fairly OddParents|Frowning is a state sport and no one ever wants to come back here]]. It's mostly remembered for ''[[Huckleberry Finn]]'' and ''[[Tom Sawyer]]''.
* Minnesota are seen either as hicks with snow instead of rusted-out cars, or pleasant, blonde suburbanites. Either way, likely to be depicted as socially conservative but politically liberal, closer to earth [[Good Old Boy]] types, all of whom are Lutheran and Swedish. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120827043030/http://www.surfminnesota.net/olelena.html See Ole and Lena.]
* Iowans like corn! Because corn is ''[[The Fairly OddParents|nice]]''.
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* "Hi, we're visiting Ohio!" "[[Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here|...Why?]]" This especially applies to [[Cleveland Rocks]].
* Let us not forget the Three Kinds of Indiana: hicks who could've been from Alabama if they weren't wearing snowboots and a winter coat; whitebread [[Everytown, America]]-ish suburbanites (particularly around Indianapolis and the Chicagoland region); and Inner City Indiana, for which the exemplar is Gary, Indiana, AKA the Armpit of America, where the chemical factories and steel mills release a putrid perfume for all to smell and where the cops will beat the crap out of you, cite you for marijuana possession... and proceed to smoke it right in your face. But to the rest of the world Indiana is associated with [[Indiana Jones]]' first name.
* Des Moines, Iowa: the reason why Bill Bryson left town and came to England,
==== American South ====
* Anyone from the South is an uneducated redneck/trailer trash, everyone has double names (Billy Bob, Mary Lou, etc.) or Biblical names (Jebediah, Ezekiel), everyone is super religious, inbreeding is rampant, people enjoy shooting at anything that moves, drinking alcohol from a jug while sitting in a rocking chair and the [[Civil Rights Movement]] never happened. Also see the 2000 movie ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'', where most of the ancient clichés are thrown together: black jazz and blues artists, country yokels, the Ku Klux Klan, cotton fields, chain gangs,...
* Louisiana is a subset of the Georgia/Alabama/Mississippi Deliverance country, except everybody speaks French patois. And there's New Orleans. New Orleans is drunk and debauched (or was destroyed by hurricane Katrina) and will mostly be filled with jazz bands and sleazy people. Occasionally a traditional Mississippi river boat will pass by.
* People from Tennessee are either hillbillies who play banjos and [[Incest Is Relative|sleep with their cousins]], typical fat [[Deep South]] rednecks, or murderous inner-city thugs who will beat you up, steal your wallet, and shank you with a knife if they think you might have more than $5 on you. The hillbillies are all on meth, the rednecks are all drunk, and the gangstas guzzle codeine cough syrup by the quart. Nashville is populated entirely with country musicians..
* West Virginia is considered an acceptable target even by the most politically correct people out there. According to the rest of America, West Virginians are all uneducated, white trash, racist, dirt poor, toothless, shoeless, gun
* Especially '''[[Everything Is Big in Texas|Texas]]'''. Howdy Y'all! Everyone in Texas is a gun toting, horse riding cowboy.
* Everyone who lives in Oklahoma is either a proud [[Magical Native American|Native American living in a teepee]], or a dumb-as-rocks hillbilly living in a trailer wondering why the "ternaders" always blow his house away.
* West Virginia has that whole [[Kissing Cousins]] thing and letting kids drive when they are 2.
* [[Florida]]. 98% of Americans think Florida's history began with the invention of air conditioning, the Panhandle is the only part of the state that is possibly south of the Mason-Dixon line, Miami-Dade is part of Cuba, not the United States, and the state's population doubles the day the first snowflake falls north of the Mason-Dixon line. Also, ask more than 99% of Americans what the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in North America is, and the answer will not be St. Augustine. Latin Americans see Florida as a haven for expats from troubled countries, whenever they are the victims or the
* Virginia overall is seen (by those who are even aware that Virginia and West Virginia are separate states) as the reddest of the red states, inhabited solely by Pat Robertson, George Allen, Ken Cuccinelli, and Eugene Delgaudio. This also plays into the divide between Northern Virginia and the rest of the state.
* (in monotone) "[[Wayne's World|Hi. We're from... Delaware.]]"
** "[[Axis Powers Hetalia|Delaware. That's a state, but most Americans don't even know that, unless they live there.]]"
* Depending on what show you're watching, [[Washington DC]] is populated entirely by either (i) high-ranking administration officials and corrupt national politicians or (ii) drug kingpins and corrupt municipal politicians. Either way, it is obligatory for depictions of local geography to be [[Hollywood Atlas|horribly wrong]], and everything is the [[Wretched Hive|exact opposite]] of whatever the writer considers to be good and just. Also, version (i) of D.C. has absolutely no long-term residents.
** Don't forget, [[
* Georgia will always be treated as a backwards hicktown that is extremely white and extremely intolerant (see the ''30 Rock'' episode "Stone Mountain"). This is despite the fact that its capital, Atlanta, is 54% black and actually has the 3rd highest population of LGBT people in the U.S. (behind San Francisco and Seattle). But at least since [[Ray Charles]] it is "always on our mind".
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**** And o yes, the sewers in New York are filled with crocodiles, according to a popular urban legend.
***** Also expect The Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building to be present somewhere in the background.
* [[Hollywood New England|Massachusetts]]: Full of loud, obnoxious, drunken Irish-Americans or pretentious college kids...sometimes both. Have a bit of an inferiority complex with New York especially pertaining to sports teams. Dislikes
**Or full of grim puritanical Yankees who for some reason believe God has forbidden fun (which is only partly true -- while they did go overboard about that especially with anything associated with Catholicism, they loved their beer and were ''somehow'' able to self-reproduce without noticeably creating a cultural crisis of the soul), wear flat-topped black conical hats, carry blunderbusses around and love turkey.
* Rhode Island has the worst drivers in America, coffee addicts (Dunkin Donuts to be exact), cannot give directions, think a 45 minute drive is a daylong trip, and have the most corrupt government that you'd ever see...it'd make Tony Soprano stand in awe. Despite all of this, nobody is quite sure if they exist or not.
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=== Latin America ===
* Latin America as a whole is generally associated with [[Banana Republic|short-term dictatorships]], ''guerilleros'', drug-trafficking, executions by fire squad, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|soccer players, and sexy and catchy dances.]]
* '''Mexicans''' are often depicted wearing sombreros and long black
**For the rest of Latinamerica, Mexico is that tumor
* '''Non-Mexican Latin Americans''' go through similar stereotypes as Mexicans do ([[The Capital of Brazil Is Buenos Aires|Brazilians included]]), but get none of the individual recognition. If they come from Central America or some of the Andean countries, they're likely to be [[The Illegal]], usually working as maids or in construction. If they're Colombian, they'll be drug dealers. If they're from the Caribbean, they're boisterous and they all know how to dance really well. They will all have comparatively dark skin, hair and eyes, usually being markedly mestizo or of indigenous or African origin, even if they come from countries with a Caucasian majority like Argentina or Chile.
* See also: the [[Latin Lover]] and the [[Spicy Latina]].
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** Women all have perfect bodies with ''really'' nice hips/butts, no body hair, and go around scantily clad all the time.
** If you're not from either Rio, São Paulo or Brazilia, you're from the jungle, are are likely a poison-dart using headhunter.
** Brazilians on Internet all are MMO players who all play as [[Griefer]]s no matter what class (or game) they are actually playing, and mock their enemies with endless threads of "[[Annoying Laugh|HUEHUEHUEHUE]]"
* '''Argentineans''' are generally regarded as a more or less fortunate mix of Italian and Latin American, since a third of its population is of Italian ancestry. As such, a lot of Italian tropes are applicable: lots of Italian food (ravioli, gnocchi, fettucini, pizza and wine), machismo, lots of hand-waving while speaking, bravado, [[The Mafia|mafia]], corruption, [[Drives Like Crazy|crazy driving]] and [[Cavemen Versus Astronauts Debate|unending arguments about even the smallest issue]]. The siesta is the most notorious part of their Spanish heritage. It is also the "whitest" country in Latin America, for the same reasons, something that makes it somewhat less exotic for North Americans and Europeans, who feel more at home.
** The Argentinian accent is very distinctive and different from the rest of Latin America, which is [[Played for Laughs]] some times.
** Spicy women and brawling machos with
** In the countryside, all men are brave gauchos, generally noble, proud and stoic, who can even sew silk on horseback and [[Knife Nut|tend to answer to the smallest provocation with a knife]]. The only dish available is red meat, in absurd quantities.
** Everybody drinks mate, knows how to play guitar and excels at football. Also, they are well-read.
** In Latin America,
** Argentina is full of ex-Nazis on and their sympathizers.
* '''Bolivia''' is better known for its characteristics ''Cholitas'', indigenous women in distinctive hats and dresses, and the wrestling league that features them. Also for having a constant rotation of coupsters and caudillos. Oh, [[Berserk Button|and for being really sensitive about their lack of sea]].
* '''Chile''': A [[World of Snark|Country of Snark]] full of classist, snobbish, [[Holier Than Thou]] and ''really'' whiny people who [[Motor Mouth|talk extremely fast]] (to the point of being [[The Unintelligible]]), pepper their conversations [[Cluster F-Bomb|with all the "F bombs" they can put in]], and either are [[Tsundere]] for their neighbors or totally in hate with them.
** Chileans are also known for its characteristic [[Verbal Tic|verbal tic]] "weón".
** If there are Peruvians nearby, [[Berserk Button|never mention ''Pisco'']], unless you want to see an screaming match about which country came with that drink first.
** The Easter Islands are under Chile's jurisdiction, so the [[Eenie Meenie Miny Moai]] trope is technically another Chilean stereotype.
* '''Colombia''' is a druglord haven full of corrupt politicians, leftist guerrillas, and right-wing death squads. On the up side, their coffee is to die for. Neighboring countries stereotype Colombians expats as either violent thugs who took undesirable professions (like bus driver or maid) and listen vallenato very loudly, or prissy ''paisas'' tired of being called druglords or ''guerrilleros''.
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** Colombia, being a big country, has several internal stereotypes, that can often show on their TV shows. To wit:
*** ''Rolos'' or ''Cachacos'' (People from the Center of the country, Bogotá mostly): simultaneously polite and smug individuals who revel on Bogotá being the most beautiful city of the Americas, believe to have the best Spanish accent of all the continent, and think of the rest of the country as The Provinces <ref>(in reality the political-territorial division of the country is in Departments)</ref> as if they were still in the times of the Colonial Domination.
*** ''Costeños'' (People from the Caribbean coast): Stereotypical Caribbeans, who are lazy, drunkards, and love dancing a lot. Love their Vallenato music.
*** ''Vallunos'' (From Valle de Cauca): like Costeños, only with salsa instead of vallenato, sleazy women, and a particular accent.
*** ''Paisas'' (Antioquia, Risaralda, Quindío and Caldas): they are very bucolic, and damn proud of it. They also have a lot of drug trafficking within - they are less proud of it. Their women are [[The Ditz|very dim]] (a fame increased by notorious TV celebrity and model Natalia París), and, in the Coffee Valley, totally addicted to cosmetic surgery. To them, the rest of the country are ''cachacos'', whenever they like the moniker or not. Many ''desplazados'' (people who have to abandon the area because of the violence from drug cartels and the guerrilla) come to this area and make a lot of the expats; because of that ''paisa'' has become a synonym for ''Colombian'' in neighboring countries.
*** ''Boyacos (from Boyacá)'': high mountain farmers. Very good cyclists because of it.
*** ''Los dos Santanderes'' are full of trigger happy gun nuts. Being the departments closer to both Venezuela and the guerrilla-dominated areas, that is understandable. People from Cúcuta (Norte de Santander) and the Venezuelan cities of San Cristobal and San Antonio are virtually interchangeable.
** For the love of all that's holy, [[Berserk Button|don't even bring the topic of Arepas]] if there is a mixed company of Colombians and Venezuelan. It will degenerate on a long and violent discussion about which country invented the dish, which version is the best, and whenever you should make it with corn flour or pure corn.
* '''Ecuador:''' Ah, yes, the place with the Galapagos and stuff.
* '''Paraguay''': Everyone is either from Asunción or from the jungle. They do nothing but smuggle goods and steal cars from neighboring countries. [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]. Everybody is bilingual in Spanish and Guarani, and love to use the latter to mess with its neighbors.
* '''Peru''' is populated by people with helium-infused voices wearing colorful ponchos
* '''Uruguay''' tends to be considered just a very small and quiet Argentina, Luxembourg style. They are [[Berserk Button|not thrilled with this.]] However, they are generally exempt from the negative Argentinean stereotyping, considered polite, open minded, friendly... and really obsessed with mate.
* '''Venezuela''' is lately known for the late Presidente Chavez, and his "socialism" (aka, dictatorial government) and its blind followers, the "chavistas". Also known for its nationalized oil industry, for having a whole industry dedicated to winning the Miss Universe pageant, and for looooong and [[melodrama]]aaaatic [[Soap Opera]]s.
** Venezuelan expats tend to be stereotyped as loud, arrogant, tacky, and victims of a misplaced [[Patriotic Fervor]]. Back in the seventies, when the country was in [[Nouveau Riche|its "Saudi" stage]], the catchphrase was "¡Ta barato, dame dos!" (It's cheap, gimmme two!). They'll love to bring how Venezuelan-born Simon Bolivar liberated several countries, but when somebody points to them that he died exiled and poor they'll remain silent.
** Venezuelan women are all very beautiful, or at least well dressed and coiffed. Thousands of salons and spas still open even in the middle of the crisis can attest to it.
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** The Venezuelans ball game of choice, unlike the rest of the continent, is baseball. Every kid want to be a Big League player. They are still somewhat proud of La Vinotinto, the national soccer selection.
** Local Venezuelan stereotypes, as they tend to be shown on local media:
*** ''Caraqueños'' , the people from Caracas (the capital city), see themselves as the most important people of the country (due to every government office being there), and the rest of the country could just drop and die (
*** ''Valencianos'', the people from the city of Valencia, Carabobo State, are basically every snob stereotype, fancying themselves as the [[Old Money]] to the [[Nouveau Riche]] of Caracas. The one who aren't snobs are [[Camp Gay|walking gay stereotypes]], to the point to people claiming to be from the city is more or less coming out, or at least admitting to live in a city-wide [[Transparent Closet]].
*** ''Maracuchos'' or ''Marabinos'' are the people from Maracaibo, Zulia state. They are seen as
*** ''Guaros'', the nickname given to the people from Lara state (
*** ''Orientales'', folding the people from the western states of Anzoategui, Sucre and Monagas ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Delta Amacuro]] to an extent). They speak very fast, overpronounce the letter "r" (sometimes substituting the L sound with it), say "hijoerdiablo" every three phrases, curse as drunk pirates, and [[Trademark Favorite Food|love their fried fish]]. See El Conde del Guacharo (the Alter Ego of
*** ''Llaneros''
*** ''Gochos'', the people from the Andean states, eternally conflated in the national imagination thanks to
*** There are some other minor stereotypes. The people from Falcon state are intrinsically tied with their goats ([[But You Screw One Goat!|maybe a bit too much]]). The people in the coastal area of Barlovento are all black people who play and dance drums very well, and will show off that ability at the minor chance. ''Guayaneses'', the people from Bolivar state, aren't particularly differentiated, save for their love of Calipso. They are also conflated with the indigenous population from the south of the country.
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* All Indians are Hindu, all Pakistanis are Muslim. Sometimes Indian Muslims are acknowledged, but Sikhs rarely are, despite one of the most stereotypical depictions of Indians (guys with turbans and big beards) being very much based around Sikhs. Jains, Buddhists, and Christians are almost never mentioned (this despite there actually being more Indian Christians than Sikhs).
* All Indians are extremely poor and live in slums or rural backwaters where they farm with oxen. They will all play cricket and travel by train since they can't afford any other way. Essentially, it's still [[The Raj]] but without so many upper-class British people.
* Thanks to [[Memetic Mutation]], [[Bollywood]] films are stereotyped as being made of tacky dance sequences followed by tacky action sequences full of [[Special Effect Failure]]s. There are no other cinema industries in the country, only Bollywood. Pakistani cinema, when
* There are only two types on Indian music: that spiritual stuff with sitars played by your yoga instructor, and Tunak Tunak Tun.
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** Old Asian people are usually wise, bearded men who [[Ice Cream Koan|speak in aphorisms]], teach martial arts and are forever trying to calm down their young, enthusiastic students. Meditation is also a popular staple in Asian popular culture.
*** If they are first-generation immigrants, they are also bound to be extremely demanding to their children and having absurdly high expectations, especially regarding education. Found, for example, in [[Wayne's World]] and made popular by [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/high-expectations-asian-father this meme]
** Young East Asian women are usually portrayed as attractive, mysterious and exotic dancers, masseuses, manicurists, geishas or prostitutes of the [[Me Love You Long Time]] kind. (See also: [[Dragon Lady]]) . They are often depicted as being very submissive [[Yamato Nadeshiko|delicate flowers]], most likely by people who have never seen ''[[
*** Submissive East Asian girls are not simply a Western stereotype. They can also be seen and heard in many East Asian films and animated cartoons, where these girls tend to talk and moan in a very high pitched squeaking voice, always accentuating their own weaknesses and reservations. Especially during erotic scenes.
** Asian cuisine is often stereotyped for cooking and serving seafood, such as sushi, fish eggs and whales. Chinese delicacies like thousand-year-old egg and bird nest soup are well-known among Westerners, and Koreans are said to favour kimchi and dog meat. In general they are often depicted eating rice.
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===[[Tibet]]===
* Wise to the point of being oracular but always talks in Yoda-speak and never makes sense to an average person. Always gentle for Tibetans are [[Blatant Lies|much too
**[[Shangri La]]
===[[China]]===
See also [[Stereotypes of Chinese People]].
* '''Chinese''' people have been depicted as if the Middle Ages never ended: walking around with douli on their head, long queues and their hands hidden in long robes.
* A popular stereotype is the insanely intelligent and evil Chinese villain with a beard or long [[Fu Manchu]] style
* A more gentle stereotype is the Chinese doctor or pharmacist who uses strange rituals, drinks and techniques to cure his patient. Often he is a practitioner of acupuncture.
* In westerns and comic strips Chinese people were often depicted as proprietors of laundries or [[Den of Iniquity|opium dens.]]
* Other stereotypes are throwing babies in the river, women wearing tiny shoes (in reference to the outdated foot-binding tradition), lighting fireworks, Chinese dragons, playing ping-pong, go or mah-jong or keeping
* In [[Red China]], the Chinese were portrayed as sexless, androgynous, personality-free Mao freaks who dress in the same uniforms and whose lives are centered on The Little Red Book.
* The Chinese also eat a lot more different animals than in other cultures. This has lead to the stereotype that the Chinese [[Extreme Omnivore|will eat anything]].
* When attempting to demonstrate [[China Takes Over the World|Chinese might/threat]], there is always this giant dragon with big, fat "CHINA" written on its body which design shows absolutely no attempt to note that [[Our Dragons Are Different|Chinese dragons and Western ones are not the same at all.]] Then again, it's all propaganda...
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** Chinese male characters generally come in one of two flavours. There's the wise, bearded [[Old Master]] type, who's ancient age hides his incredible skill, with examples including Gen of ''[[Street Fighter]]'' fame, [[Drunken Boxing|drunken]] fighters Shun Di and Chin Gentsai from ''[[Virtua Fighter]]'' and ''[[King of Fighters]]'' respectively, Tung Furue from ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' and Wang Jinrei from ''[[Tekken]]''. The other popular Chinese male depiction is the straight up [[Bruce Lee Clone]], as seen with Fei Long of ''[[Street Fighter]]'' fame, Marshall Law from ''[[Tekken]]'', Liu Kang from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', a medieval version with Maxi from the ''[[Soul Series]]'' and Jann [[Meaningful Name|Lee]] from ''[[Dead or Alive]]''.
* More recent portrayals seem to indicate that the Chinese might be taking over the ruthless businessman role from the Japanese in Hollywood films. In fact, a growing number of modern works have the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] or [[The Man Behind the Man|the villain pulling the strings]] to be a gaunt, middle-aged Chinese man with high cheekbones who cares more about money than human life. This may be due to American fear and resentment over [[China Takes Over the World|China's growing importance]] in the world and economic power, and all the debt the US owes them. [[The Simpsons (animation)|"China still cool! You pay later!"]]
* Between the Special Administration Zones and the Mainland China, Mainland China views the average SAZ citizen as impatient and brash while Mainlanders are seen as moody and spoiled due to several policies in China.
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* Japanese popular culture often baffles other countries:
** Japanese comic strips ([[Manga]]), animated cartoons ([[Anime]]), computer games, horror and action films are often criticized for being disturbingly dark, complex, bizarre and violent.
** Their
** Their [[Anime]] is often ridiculed. Characters simply freeze in one position while a vague background goes by. You seldom see a realistic Asian in their cartoons: [[Mukokuseki|always Caucasians with very wide eyes.]] Non-anime fans seem to think anime is still at the quality of [[Speed Racer]].
*** Also, [[All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles]].
** The [[Kaiju]] films are ridiculed for their bad special effects: men wearing rubber monster suits. The plots are surreal and consist of nothing more than [[Godzilla]] fighting other monsters for no particular reason.
** Their instruction videos and commercials are equally weird. Many famous Hollywood actors make TV commercials in Japan ([[Japandering]]) and these videos have become notorious because they often put celebrities in a weird context that doesn't have anything to do with their public image. For decades these commercials remained mostly unknown to Western audiences, but since the arrival of Internet their notability has increased, often to the shame of the actors themselves.
* In (beat 'em up) video games, Japanese characters run the full gamut of character types (
* Japanese people are engineering geniuses, but they use this to create giant robots.
* Other popular Japanese stereotypes are the geisha, sumo wrestler, samurai and [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|ninja]].
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* '''South Koreans''' are fanatical video game nerds who will kick your ass at [[World of Warcraft|any]] [[StarCraft|Blizzard]] [[Diablo|game]] or ''[[Counter-Strike]]''. kekekeke
* Also, dry cleaning. More than a few Korean immigrants have had dry cleaning as their first job in the United States. Several catalogs even have a specialized Korean-language line to dial.
* Koreans are not generally seen as distinct from Chinese or Japanese (see [[All Asians Are Alike]]); when they are, they get a similar treatment to the Japanese as stereotypical businessmen who are reserved and extremely polite. Korean women will probably be war brides or prostitutes. Most North Americans know of [[The Korean War]] from ''[[
* Koreans are the only East Asian ethnicity to generally be portrayed as Christian, although other Asian countries (the Philippines, East Timor, Georgia and Armenia) also have people of this religion. (Then again, South Korea is among the few countries in ''their'' geopolitical sphere to have a significant Christian minority.)
** This perception is likely due to Sun Myung Moon's fame.
* Korean food consists of rice, dog meat and kimchi. No exceptions.
* It's a bit of a stereotype in the Asian-American community that Koreans, especially the women, are really into plastic surgery. In the 2010's the stereotype has expanded to that Koreans, regardless of gender or migration status, are also into extremely complex beauty and skin care routines that use at least 10 different products for each body part.
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* Also, every Taiwanese person on the internet seems to know every other Taiwanese person.
* Although most Taiwanese are of Han Chinese ethnicity, they are treated as essentially Japanese in culture (somewhat [[Truth in Television]], as the island was occupied by Japan for several decades).
* Taiwan may be confused with Hong Kong; there will be taxis, 24-hour laundries and
* And every cheap product is of course "made in Taiwan".
* Many Americans don't differentiate Taiwanese people from the Chinese in terms of perception.
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===[[Hong Kong]]===
* A big, modernized city full of tourists.
* Likely to be filled with
* Lots of dead chickens hanging in the windows and lots of old ladies willing to behead any live chickens they get.
* A hot-spot for wealthy business men (both Asian and White) to visit and "relax".
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* Cheap products will all be "Made in Hong Kong".
* Lots of crime.
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* Is the place where the Khmer Rouge took over. Virtually everything about Cambodia is known from the film ''[[The Killing Fields]]'', which means it is a poor jungle country overrun by Communist
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* All of Thailand is Bangkok, which is universally portrayed as a [[Wretched Hive]] full of seedy bars and strip clubs. There will be some mention of ''kathoey'' ("ladyboys"), possibly leading to [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]. If some other part of Thailand is shown, it will probably be a rubber plantation with elephants and palm trees everywhere, or a beach where Westerners go to live in wooden houses on stilts and surf. There will still be drugs and prostitutes, though.
* Expect Thai massage, Thai dancing and/or Thai boxing to be depicted as if they are general activities every Thai does.
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* Foreigners often confuse them with Germans.
* Just like Germans (but less often) Austrians are sometimes associated with [[Nazi Germany]], due to the fact that [[Adolf Hitler]] was an Austrian, although the success of right-wing politician Jörg Haider (now deceased) also helped.
** Austrians are often associated with mountaineering. See ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], Sissi, Vienna and the Waltz.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130601131150/http://www.erothitan.com/press_info/2002-10-28_the_perfect_european_en.html One tourist card] sarcastically stereotypes Austrians as being an impatient or easily agitated people
* Historically, the Austrians had the reputation of being the ''second''-worst army in Europe, somewhat alleviated by having Hungarian reserves available.
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* '''Belgians''' have a reputation for being easily oppressed and taken advantage of. The country has been conquered several times in history, even receiving the nickname "Europe's battlefield." Even today many Belgians distrust politicians, the police and justice and have an inferiority complex about their status in the world. All these aspects and the small size of the country has caused other countries to not take them very seriously.
** Especially in the Netherlands and France, the dumb Belgian is a common stereotype in jokes. In French these jokes even have a special name (''les histoires Belges'', "Belgian stories")
* "Name ten famous Belgians" is a well-known question, assuming that there are no Belgian celebrities. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when a foreigner is only able to name two characters, both fictional: [[Tintin]] and [[Hercule Poirot]]. [http://www.famousbelgians.net/ The facts are different, especially since the lack of being able to name ten Belgian celebrities says more about the summarizing person's own general knowledge].
* Belgians are often shown eating French fries ("French" doesn't refer to France, but the verb "to french").
** In reference to the paintings of [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder]] some cultivated foreigners still have the impression that all Belgians are peasants who do nothing more than party, drink and eat. Belgium also has a lot more national, local, official and non-official holidays, carnivals and parties in comparison to other countries (though it must be said that not the entire population celebrates along with them). And Belgian bars and cafés tend to close much, much later at night than other countries.
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* Especially in the U.S.A. '''French''' people are often ridiculed for being cowards who surrender immediately when confronted with danger. This idea is based on their rather quick capitulation during the Nazi invasion of France during World War II and has led to the term [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys]]. This image only became commonly expressed in the United States after French and American clashes over foreign policy during the [[Cold War]]. Actually the French surrendered in order to prevent the destruction of Paris. This also completely ignores the work of [[La Résistance|the French resistance]], who assassinated Nazi officers, attacked their supply lines and helped smuggle out POWs.
* France also has an association with love, romance and sex. [[Gay Paree|Candlelit dinners by moonlight in Paris with the Eiffel Tower in the background]] are not uncommon in romantic films. French men and women are often portrayed as [[Everyone Looks Sexier If French|sexy]] or even [[Handsome Lech|oversexed]].
* The archetypal Frenchmen is usually caricatured as a dirty, lazy, unshaven, curly
* French are often called “rude or arrogant” to foreigners. They are not afraid of swearing and using bad language (See also: [[French Jerk]]). Especially when they are driving. Parisians in particular are considered to be [[Jerkass|very rude]] to tourists and foreigners (although not as much the latter as the former). It is not uncommon for travel guides to tell tourists not to look at people in the Metro in the eye, since they will think you have a problem with them.
* The [[French Jerk|"arrogant Frenchman"]] stereotype was also fed by Charles De Gaulle, who both during World War II and later as President (1958-1969) expressed a very non-cooperative and independent view on world politics. During [[World War II]] de Gaulle refused to cooperate in the Allies plans to '''free France'''. He, unlike all the other leaders, in his public speech right after D-Day stated that this invasion was the real invasion, this had the potential to ruin the Allied deceptions that Normandy was just a feint, with Calais the real invasion point. That was just one of his many, many, many actions whereby it seemed he was [[With Friends Like These...|more of a problem for his friends than enemies]].
**To be fair he had good reason to be that way. He had only so many resources to call on and trusting that foreigners adored France so much that they would oh-so-obviously take ''absolute delight'' in dying for it would when you think about it have been more arrogant and more importantly is not a bet he would have been able to afford to make. Little countries and defeated ones have more [[Ass in Ambassador|obnoxious diplomacy]] because big ones have enough [[Gunboat Diplomacy|gunboats]] that they don't have to use their collective mouthiness as a substitute.
* French accents are also enormously popular in comedies, [[Western Animation]] and even dramatic films and TV series, often to the point of overkill. French people will always speak English like Maurice Chevalier, usually complete with a “hon hon hon” laugh. All these French characters talk in the same way: "the" and "this" are pronounced "zee" and "zis", the words "mais oui," "mon ami" or "mon chéri" are used non-stop and the "w" is pronounced "ooweee". Famous examples are Inspector Clouseau in [[The Pink Panther]], Lumière in [[Beauty and The Beast]], all the French characters in ''[['Allo 'Allo!
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* Frenchmen are often cast as cooks, onion sellers and people who enjoy eating baguettes, croissants, tarts and cheese and drink wine. See also [[French Cuisine Is Haughty]]. Examples of French cooks in fiction: Louis in [[The Little Mermaid]] and the cooks in [[Ratatouille]].
* And of course: if a scene takes place in France, the Eiffel Tower '''must''' be present in the background!
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* Since [[World War II]], Germany has suffered from [[All Germans Are Nazis]]. Yet, in comparison to other Axis Powers like Italy and Japan Germany is still solely typecast as a country that was wrong during 1933-1945. This despite the fact that other countries also collaborated with Germany. And that their were actually quite some notable Germans who opposed Nazi Germany!
** Thanks to both the [[Prussia|Prussian Army]] of [[Otto von Bismarck]], the [[Franco-Prussian War|Franco German War]] and the [[First World War]] and [[Second World War]] '''Germans''' are often cast as villains or strict militaristic people, wearing pickelhaube, goosestepping from one place to another and obeying orders at all cost. The German reputation for belligerence has fluctuated a great deal through the ages. The ancient ''Germani'' were considered very war-like by the Romans, but by the Victorian period, the typical German was considered to be sentimental and romantic and musical --''Gemütlichkeit'' and ''Träumerei'' were the clichés. Then along came Bismarck and the Franco-German War, and all Germans became Prussians...
** Thanks to numerous war movies, certain German military officers have become a popular stereotype themselves. German women are depicted as strict, dominant, bitchy females [[Prim and Proper Bun|with their hair in a tight bun hairstyle.]] They tend to shout orders in a shrill, abrasive tone, like for instance Dr. Elsa Schneider from [[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]], Frau Farbissina from ''[[Austin Powers]]'', Private Helga Geerhart from ''[['Allo 'Allo!
* In more recent times, especially British comedy, the conscientious post-[[World War II]] German has become a popular character. He is incredibly polite and respectful, and grows nervous whenever the war is mentioned ([[Fawlty Towers|"Don’t mention]][[WWII|The War]]!") or [[Berserk Button|very pissed off]], [[All Germans Are Nazis|if he is called a Nazi]].
* Germans have a reputation for being highly organized, ruthlessly efficient, bureaucratic and deadly serious to the point that they foreigners assume that they lack a sense of humor. (See [[Germanic Efficiency]] and [[Germanic Depressives]]). The image of the strict, efficient and hard-working German is based on the ''Wirtschaftswunder'' after [[World War II]], when Germany quickly revived economically. The joyless German stereotype may be derived from their depiction as brutal enemy or seriously devoted bureaucratic worker.
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** Tyrol (the place with the hats) is a part of Austria and has a long history of war with Bavaria. Doesn't help the trope.
* The oldest, and most enduring, stereotype—it can be found in Tacitus' ''Germania'', in Dante's ''[[The Divine Comedy|Divine Comedy]]'', in [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Merchant of Venice]], etc., etc.''—is that the Germans are heavy drinkers.
* The operas of [[Richard Wagner]] have also created several stereotypes associated with Germany, like the large blonde Teutonic woman wearing a Viking helmet, spear and shield like Brynhildr in ''[[Der Ring Des Nibelungen]]''.
* [[Mad Scientist]]s, psychologists, philosophers, composers, conductors and psychiatrists in popular culture often [[Herr Doktor|speak with thick German accents]]. This image is probably based on real-life examples like the German physicist [[Albert Einstein]] and the Austrian psychiatrist [[Sigmund Freud]]. Examples of these German scientists in fiction are Ludwig Von Drake, [[Dr. Strangelove]], Victor [[Frankenstein]] (Who of course was Swiss, not German), [[Animaniacs|Dr. Otto Scratchandsniff]] and... [[The Human Centipede|Josef Heiter]].
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* To a lesser extent, the Irish have been seen as uneducated peasants who marry their cousins. This came from the U.S. when Irish immigrants came looking for work. The fact that the Irish are more tied with their families than Americans or British may have created this stereotype.
* The other dominant Irish stereotypes involve [[Officer O'Hara|cops]], [[The Irish Mob|mobsters]], [[The Troubles|terrorists]], [[Irish Priest|priests]], leprechauns, dwarves, or simply anyone somehow associated with [[My Local|pub gastronomy]].
**Of course people that drink a lot [[Fridge Brilliance| are likely to]] get in trouble with cops, mobsters, or terrorists; think they see leprechauns or dwarves; and spend a lot of time confessing to a priest. Not to mention spending a lot of time with pub gastronomy.
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* Italian cooks are also popular stereotypes, usually busy cooking food with lots of pasta, tomatoes, spaghetti, lasagna, pizza, macaroni and ravioli. The homely mother or grandmother (the "nonna") who enjoys cooking for her family is often used in advertising.
** Italian salesmen sell fruit gelato or ice cream in the street.
* Street musicians with an organ and a little monkey performing tricks are always Italians with curly black
* The world of opera has led to Italy’s association with melodramatic behaviour. Italians are often depicted gesticulating and talking loudly, unable to control their behaviour. Italian men often crave for their “mamma”, are short-tempered and always start intense discussions about the most banal topics.
* Italians are often depicted speaking with a heavy accent in which the schwa is inserted after consonant-final words into their speech, leading to sentences like ''"I ain't-a gonna make-a pasta no more!"'' while illustrating his speech with exaggerated gesticulations. Examples are [[Super Mario Bros.|the Mario Bros.]], Luigi in [[The Simpsons]], Tony & Joe in [[Lady and the Tramp]] and the character portrayed by [[The Marx Brothers|Chico Marx]].
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** In American media, all Italians are Sicilians, and all Sicilians have black hair, brown eyes, and olive skin. Very much ''not'' [[Truth in Television]], at least when it comes to the real Sicily (or Italy, for that matter). This trope is so pervasive that when Turner Media colorized a bunch of old black-and-white movies featuring [[Frank Sinatra]], they gave him brown eyes. (For those wondering, Sinatra's best-known nickname was "Ol' Blue Eyes".)
** The female counterpart of this character is the Italian bombshell, exemplified by actresses as [[Sophia Loren]], [[Gina Lollobrigida]], Claudia Cardinale, Anita Ekberg,... Italian girls in modern works are ''always'' hot: in older American works, however, they're often stereotyped as hairy and nauseatingly unclean. See also: [http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/italy this Flash animation] (made by an Italian).
* In (beat 'em up) videogames, Italians are ''mostly'' depicted as [[Latin Lover|sexy and suave]], with examples including [[Sharp-Dressed Man|Robert Garcia]] from ''[[Art of Fighting]]'', [[Statuesque Stunner|Rose]] from ''[[Street Fighter]]'' and [[Latin Lover|Brad Burns]] from ''[[Virtua Fighter]]''. The exception is ''definitely'' the brilliantly freaky bondage-fiend [[Bound and Gagged|Voldo]] from the ''[[Soul Series]]'', a native of Palermo, who provides a rather excellent subversion.
* A rather negative stereotype is Italy’s association with [[The Mafia]], which ties into the stereotype of all Italians as Sicilians. Since 1945 Italian politics have been a disorganized cess pool of corruptness, Mafia intrigues and governments falling as a result of that. But the C.I.A. also helped things stay that way in their international fight against socialist/communist governments. (See [[wikipedia:Operation Gladio|Operation Gladio]])
* Italians have the stereotype that any nation not having a bidet in every bathroom is horribly unclean. But for instance, no Italian restaurants (except some luxury ones) have [[wikipedia:Bidet|the bidet]] in their facilities, and many Italian males simply never use theirs but pretend that's impossible to live without.
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* Italians do strongly believe that everybody envies their easy life, good weather, concrete or brick homes, low cost of living, sea and snowy mountains by the step, and for that reason when Italians fail internationally at something (sports or whatever else like war) all foreigners are blamed for "conspiring together against poor Italy, which never is given the time to rise on its feet before some other big country bashes it down again". Italians should probably blame only themselves most of the time.
** If Austria is said to have the second-most useless armed forces in European history, the Italians are (according to observed history) the worst. Italian tanks are popularly supposed to have three forward gears and seventeen reverse gears; the slimmest book in the world is apparently '''The Italian book of War Heroes''; and British people in particular will point to newsreel film of Italian soldiers surrendering by the tens of thousand as proof that whatever they're good at, it's not fighting.
** The mass surrenders are only true of the early part of [[WW 2]]; the history of the North African war indicates that the catastrophic defeats of early 1941 were a nadir. After this, the fighting performance of the Italian soldier actually improved, to a point where Rommel himself said the very best Italian units were the equal of the Germans. But the Italian Army was plagued by poor training, substandard equipment and bad leadership: the Russians exploited this to destroy the Italian army at Stalingrad as a precursor to defeating the Germans. Even so, the trope of the Italian army surrendering ''en masse'' is now so firmly ingrained in the consciousness of her former foes that it is notoriously hard to shift.
***Whatever amusements can be gotten from their ambiguous military prowess they were also more reluctant then many nations about collecting Jews and many risked their lives to help fugitives.
** Not always true, even as a stereotype. It's not uncommon for Italians to blame themselves (as a whole) for everything, even when it's a single individual fault. This occurs either by blaming some particular parts of the country (mostly by addressing the Southern Italians, "Terroni", or the Northern ones, "Polentoni", depending on which of the two factions is speaking) or the entire nation, always implying Italians are worse than other people because of a supposedly natural idiocy. It's somewhat a big issue, to someone.
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====[[Monaco]]====
* Since Monaco has a Prince and featured in many tabloid stories about the royals, people seem to assume that it's a glamorous place, which it ''can'' be, but generally only for the supremely rich. It's actually incredibly built-up and crowded.
* [[Micro Monarchy]]: The ruling Grimaldi family in general are probably the ''
* If Monaco is depicted in popular culture, characters are always in a casino, on a yacht or on the racetrack.
* The native Monégasque make up just over 20% of the 30,000 inhabitants of the tiny principality and are stereotyped as keeping [[Kissing Cousins|themselves to themselves]] and being fabulously wealthy by the far more numerous French and Italian residents.
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* '''Dutchmen''' and women are often depicted wearing clogs, carrying cheese and walking around in tulip fields with many wind mills, “[[wikipedia:Gracht|grachten]]”, and cows in the background. All women are blond milk maids. Huge dikes protect the Dutch from floods, as depicted in the popular story about [[Hans Brinker And The Silver Skates]] which is in fact an American story and not a real-life Dutch incident.
** Water is perhaps the Netherlands' most prominent trademark. For centuries this completely flat country was in many places lower than the sea level, thus causing major flood disasters up until 1953. It also explains its name ("Nederland": "neder" is an archaic word for something that's low or down to the ground). Since the Delta Works project the Netherlands managed to put a stop to most of these continuous floods.
*** Water is so much a part of the landscape in the Netherlands that even tourists notice it. Rivers, brooks, "grachten" and the sea itself made it necessary for Dutchmen to make boats. Just like the English they have a tradition for being sailors and
* A more modern view of the Netherlands depicts the people as drug addicts who smoke marijuana while the streets are full of brothels and prostitutes. This stereotype is based on their more liberal attitudes towards soft drugs, sexuality, gay-lesbian rights and prostitution, compared to other countries. (See also [[Freestate Amsterdam]].)
** Dutch TV shows, films, advertisements and culture in general also have a reputation for being sometimes borderline obscene, vulgar, scatological and risqué. Even kids' shows!
* For centuries the Netherlands were called a "tolerant nation". Indeed, since the 17th century many foreign refugees have fled to the Netherlands, because in Dutch society people didn't mind about other people's beliefs. However, during World War II more people were persecuted in the Netherlands than in any other Nazi occupied country. After the war the country successfully managed to restore its reputation and for decades it tolerated many things that are considered illegal or controversial in other countries. Still feeling ashamed
* In Europe, Dutch people are often depicted as being arrogant and bluntly direct know-it-alls.
* Just like the Scottish they are known to be thrifty about money ("Hollandse zuinigheid" (translation: "Dutch frugality")).
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* More rarely, Portuguese people are considered more taciturn and fatalistic than other southern European populations, probably because of fado music (fado means "fate"), mentioned above.
* People from Alentejo (one of the most rural and underdeveloped regions in the country) live life at a snail's pace, are lazy and mostly old. They're probably communists too.
* In the
* A Venezuelan stereotypical depiction of Portuguese people is that they are all industrious people who run small businesses, usually Mom & Pop stores and bakeries, and every food store in the country is managed by them (in real life, most of the food distribution chain is indeed managed by people of Portuguese descent).
** "El portu del abasto/bodega/corner shop" is an stereotype by itself in pretty much all of South America, a middle-aged mustached man in white butcher clothes. The Portuguese always have a unibrow, even the women.
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** The Grim Reaper in ''[[Monty Python's The Meaning of Life]]'' complains: "Be quiet! You Englishmen... You're all so fucking pompous and none of you have got any balls."
** "I'm British; I know how to queue." - [[Douglas Adams]] makes several references to no one being better at queuing than the British.
* ''Keep Calm and Carry On''...The British are known for their equanimity, and many works reference the British [[Stiff Upper Lip]], a national character trait that ranges from a general "mustn't grumble" attitude in mild examples, to an extreme level of
* British accents are often used to provide people with a witty, sophisticated outlook (see [[I Am Very British]] and [[Deadpan Snarker]]s) This can be the charming, witty, intellectual male Brit ([[James Bond]], [[The Avengers (TV series)|John Steed]], [[Sherlock Holmes]]) or the young and sexy [[English Rose]] type woman (Emma Peel and various [[Bond Girl]] s). Characters in historical costume dramas often have British accents, even if the setting has [[The Queen's Latin|nothing to do with England]]. Upper-class characters and movie villains are usually represented as [[The Mean Brit]] or [[Evil Brit]]. Too often they are depicted as eloquent snobs who are in the end humiliated by someone who is more egalitarian.
* In
** English ''male'' video game characters however come in one of ''two'' distinct flavours. There's the [[Quintessential British Gentleman]] type, as seen with both Dudley and Eagle of [[Street Fighter]] fame, who sport a bowtie and cravat respectively, braces and formal trousers. The other type is the UK cultural opposite, as seen with various [[Lovable Rogue|punkish]], [[The British Invasion|rock and roll examples]], including Axl from [[Guilty Gear]] and Billy Kane of [[King of Fighters]] fame.
* The [[Quintessential British Gentleman]] is dressed in a bowler hat and black suit, carries an umbrella and interrupts everything for the sake of having his tea (see [[Spot of Tea]]). In American movies he usually speaks Cockney slang like “'Ello, gov'na!” or other random [[Stock Phrases]] like “I say "what"?”, "Cheerio", "Right-ee-o", "Hello chaps", "I say!", "What's all this then?" or “Jolly good show!”. Foreign comedians also have a tendency to portray an Englishman by using the words "bastard" or "bollocks", which are both considered to be [[Did Not Do the Bloody Research|rude words in Great Britain]] and are always avoided in public, especially on radio or television.
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* [[British Royal Guards]]
* [[Stock British Characters]]
* [[Boarding School]]:
** The first is the [[Boarding School of Horrors]], often used in conjunction with the [[Off to Boarding School]] trope, an intimidating place filled with stuffy, repressed pupils and [[Sadist Teacher|sadist teachers]]. This version is presented in [[Nicholas Nickleby]], [[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]], the song "Another Brick in the Wall" by [[Pink Floyd]], [[Never Let Me Go]], the darkly anarchic [[If....]], [[Roald Dahl|Roald Dahl's]] [[Matilda]], [[Danny, the Champion of the World]] and his autobiographical work "Boy: Tales of Childhood", [[Billy Bunter]], [[St Trinian's]], [[Molesworth]], [[Horrible Histories]] and in
** The alternative flavour presents British boarding school life as a ''far'' more enjoyable, even magical experience, with hi-jinks aplenty, midnight feasts, pillow fights and life-long friendships formed. Examples of works from this setting include [[Goodbye, Mr. Chips]], [[Jennings]] and of course, possibly the most famous example, [[Harry Potter]].
** If characters go to university, Oxford and Cambridge will be at one point referred to as "the best universities in the world". College students will be wearing a student beret (a tradition that doesn't exist in non-English speaking universities) and a boat race might be held as well.
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* Despite being generally portrayed as polite and sophisticated Britons can sometimes be depicted as more degrading characters:
** Rude, violent and drunken soccer hooligans can be found in other countries as well, but England is tarnished more with this reputation than others. Of course, they all shout in Cockney accents.
** Another "non-posh" British
** [[British Newspapers]]: Despite the fact that many countries have tabloid magazines and sensational journalists these trashy, sleazy and unconscionable newspapers are generally associated with the "Red Tops" of Great Britain.
* Thanks to [[The British Empire]] and their naval traditions, the British have a reputation for being excellent
** Speaking of "Rule Britannia": whenever a scene cuts to an English location the soundtrack ''must'' quote the refrain from this song for a few notes. Especially in comedy and animation, this is almost a golden rule.
* In many countries, especially on the European continent, they are seen as having [[Foreign Queasine|awful food]], something that has been spoofed in “Asterix in Britain”.
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* By the way: it's always raining in the United Kingdom. Or when in London, expect some smog or fog to show up.
** It's VERY much [[Truth in Television]] that Brits are obsessed with [[Talk About the Weather|talking about the weather]], probably stemming from - a) Having a [[British Weather|highly erratic climate]] that goes from blazing sunshine to ''torrential'' downpours in a the space of an afternoon, and b) A cultural need to fill in conversational silences and awkwardness with universally acceptable chit-chat.
* [[Anglo-Saxons|Medieval Britain]], with its associated imagery of [[Big Fancy Castle|castles]], [[Save the Princess|princesses]] and [[Knight in Shining Armor|chivalrous knights]], is frequently used as a template to provide the [[Standard Fantasy Setting]] in a ''huge'' variety of works - from films, [[Game of Thrones|TV series]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|table-top games]] and [[Dragon Age|
* The [[British Royal Family]] is easily the world's most famous monarchy, so expect the various members to turn up, usually for [[The Naked Gun|comedic]] or [[The Queen|dramatic]] effect, in a variety of works - from TV to films, books and even
** Since [[HM The Queen|Queen Elizabeth]] is the best-known monarch in the world, she's turned up quite a lot in fiction, usually as an [[Anonymous Ringer]] or [[Invisible President]], in part due to her function as a constitutional monarch.
* In some fiction like [[The Simpsons]]' episode "The Regina Monologues" Great Britain is depicted as if it still has the death penalty, which is of course carried out in medieval style by beheading someone in the Tower of London. The irony of it all is that Great Britain has abolished the death penalty while the United States still has it!
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* '''Scots''' are often depicted as dour, grouchy and mean. Toughened by the harsh Scottish climate this has lead to the [[Violent Glaswegian]] stereotype. But yet they are so tough that they are usually cast as the [[Brave Scot]].
* The Scottish also have a reputation for being thrifty misers, which is a source for a lot of jokes (by foreigners, of course).
* Scots
** From ''[[Doctor Who]]'': "You're Scottish, fry something!".
** ''[[Mock the Week]]'', "Weird Things to See on a Road Sign": "You are entering Scotland. No salad for 200 miles."
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* According to [[Scandinavia and The World]] (written by a Dane) Danish people are also known for being accidentally racist.
* Most foreigners know of only three things about Denmark: It's the land of Vikings, Lego, and [[Hans Christian Andersen]].
* And all Danish films are, of course,
====[[Finland]]====
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* Swedish men are often shown to be blonde, dumb, well-built boytoys. Quite often they are ski instructors or handymen.
** On the other side of the spectrum, sometimes Swedish men are often portrayed as the gay nerds of the North.
* Swedish cultural fixtures figure into stereotypes such as IKEA, the cradle-to-grave socialist welfare state (and its attendant taxation), Volvos, etc. They are also commonly portrayed in propaganda works as a
* Whenever [[Le Film Artistique|arthouse cinema]] is parodied the movies will always be in black or white, surrealistic, too intellectual and made in either France or Sweden. If a Swedish arthouse movies is targeted it will always be referencing [[Ingmar Bergman]].
* To other Scandinavians, Swedish men are overly fashionable, probably homosexual, and wearers of tight trousers. Their women are regarded as hot, if perhaps fake.
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* This European postcard sarcastically depicts the Swedes [https://web.archive.org/web/20130601131150/http://www.erothitan.com/press_info/2002-10-28_the_perfect_european_en.html as being inflexible.]
* Sweden also seems to be known for having little to no sexual or nudity taboos, as seen on [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101122130642/simpsons/images/thumb/e/eb/Stockholm_1.png/605px-Stockholm_1.png The Simpsons].
* There's only two genres of music: The grimiest of metal and annoyingly upbeat bubblegum pop. The metal stereotype is applied to pretty much all Nordic countries (except Iceland), while the reputation of Sweden having overly cutesy pop music probably came from
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** However, the Greeks will make sure to tell you [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|that they have nothing against the Turks.]]
* Everyone from the Balkans is a terrorist, a gangster, a war-criminal, or some combination thereof. If they come to America it must be for some evil reason.
====[[Greece]]====
* Either referring to [[Ancient Greece]] or since ''[[Zorba the Greek]]'' men clothed in the national dress dancing the Sirtaki.
* ''[[My Big Fat Greek Wedding]]'' is full of Greek stereotypes (everyone is Orthodox Christian, named Nick, and very proud of their Greek heritage).
* Greeks are similar to Italians: loud, hairy, obsessed with large and ostentatious gold
* This European post card sarcastically [https://web.archive.org/web/20130601131150/http://www.erothitan.com/press_info/2002-10-28_the_perfect_european_en.html depicts the Greeks as being disorganized].
* Everyone in Greece owns or is heir to a vast shipping empire. And in reference to Aristoteles Onassis they will also be called Aristoteles.
* In reference to [[The Olympic Games]] the Greek will be throwing discuses, running marathons or
* And, perhaps the most modern of all its stereotypes (most popular in the rest of the EU); Greece, the monetary black hole, unable to cope with the 2008 stock market crash [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510090029/http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/bro/lowres/bron2313l.jpg until this very day].
====The former [[Yugoslavia]]====
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====[[Russia]], Belarus, [[Ukraine]], and the rest of Eastern Europe====
* Most people are depicted as harsh, primitive peasants who are miserably poor. They’ll be cooking soup, stew, goulash or eating yoghurt, paprika or salami. If they are not working on the fields they are either spied upon by secret police or active in espionage. Most of these stereotypical images date back to the [[Cold War]] and Dracula movies, who are often set in Romania. A more modern stereotype depicts them as [[The Mafiya|gangsters active in the Russian mafia]]. They love [[Chess]], [[Ballet]], playing violin or [[Russian Roulette]], taking hot baths in icy temperatures and are quite likely to use some [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|Russian Reversals]] ("In Soviet Russia, TV watches you!"). Russians will tend not to use articles (the words "the" and "a"), or to use the wrong ones, since the [[Russian Language]] does not have any equivalent to these words. They refer to anyone as 'Comrade'. Their speech often puts a strong emphasis on the letter "r" and "g"-sounds are put in front of words beginning with the letter "h". Other popular cliché expressions are "nyet" ("no") and "da!" ("yes").
* The men always have heavy eyebrows,
* The women wear something called a babushka, which inexplicably refers to a type of head dress instead of its actual meaning (grandmother). Sometimes they are depicted as being more masculine than feminine.
* Apparently Russian women go from impossibly hot supermodels to shriveled-up crones over an absurdly short period of time. It is likely they will be tall, leggy blondes who are constantly depressed and mopey despite being incredibly beautiful.
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* Just like Indian or Pakistani people, Arabic people are frequently depicted as being shopkeepers or supermarket managers. In certain parts of the United States, Arabic-speakers are specifically stereotyped as owners of gas stations, with the ethnicity varying based on location. In Michigan, they tend to be Lebanese or Iraqi; in New Jersey, they tend to be Egyptian Copts. In South America, they are unanimously called "Turcos" (Turkish) even when most of them are actually Syrian or Lebanese, and tend to be stereotyped as door-to door sellers and owners of hardware stores.
* A more positive image is the rich [[Arab Oil Sheikh]] who wears sunglasses and a turban (often mocked by Western comedians as being a towel or a diaper).
* In (beat 'em up) videogames, for whatever reason, there are a number of ''ambiguously'' Middle Eastern characters. That is, their design evokes the look of the region, and a few cultural clues may be mentioned, but mention of actual nationality is [[Parts Unknown|outright avoided]]. Examples include Zafina, from [[Tekken]], who's background and cut-scenes hint at an Egyptian origin, but who has "unknown" listed against birthplace on her official bio. [[Word of God]] states that she is of "Middle Eastern" origin, but no more information has been provided. Algol from the [[Soul Series]] is another example - his name is clearly Arabic (literally "the ghoul"), as well as his move-list, and his story is an homage to the Sumerian (modern day Iraq) [[Mesopotamian Mythology|Gilgamesh epic]], but his origin is never confirmed outright. Zasalamel, also from the [[Soul Series]], is similarly ambiguous, with a look that references Egypt (his ibis-head scythe especially) and a
** [[Belly Dancer|Pullum Purna]] of the [[Street Fighter]] series, who hails from Saudi Arabia, is one of the few Middle Eastern characters with an actual nationality, albeit with a look that is about a 1000 years out of date in a modern day Saudi setting....
* If people remember that North Africa exists they will usually assume the entire area is one big empty desert.
* In Latin America, Arab migrants tend to be conflated with the Turkish, and stereotyped as either peddlers and owners of quincallerías/trinkets stores (the predecessors of the Dollar Store equivalents in Latin America and Spain).
* Arabs have their own set of stereotypes about one another:
** '''Bedouins''' have two stereotypes, one old, one new:
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*** Are seen as laid-back and always joking about everything, typically in an overstated, [[Slapstick]], and very often lowbrow kind of way; [[Pungeon Master]] also comes into play, as does [[Boisterous Bruiser]] (without the alcohol, most of the time). They are often considered [[Book Dumb]], but also quick-witted when it comes to solving practical problems. Nevertheless proud—if sometimes vaguely—of [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt's ancient heritage]], as evidenced by the phrase ''Masr omm ad-dunya'' ("Egypt [is] the mother of the world"); this has occasionally given others in the Arab world indigestion. Historically also seen as kind of submissive; [[Middle East Uprising 2011|this was proven wrong in the most epic way imaginable]].
*** Egyptian women have a reputation as [[Belly Dancer]]s; Egyptians kind of brought this one on themselves, as Egyptian movies (the most popular ones in the Arab world) always have one.
*** If Egypt is shown in fiction, usually references are made to [[Ancient Egypt]].
*** To give you an idea about how Egyptians view themselves and their pervasive film industry, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE28t8qc1H0 these] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYpxQtXLVOA are] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlC0ey064ro some] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-rGCwe-XP0 commercials] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr0jiWvFaFI from] an Egyptian movie channel (based for whatever reason in Canada), featuring a wannabe ''auteur'', a [[Executive Meddling|sex-obsessed and lowbrow film executive]], and the scripts of several top-notch American films. Enjoy.
** People from '''the Gulf States''' are seen as [[Arab Oil Sheikh]]s to a man, and this is ''not'' a good thing. They are typically portrayed as being filthy-rich lecherous drunks and drug addicts, who [[Hypocrite|hide behind religion]] to justify their sinning. The guy from Saudi Arabia or the UAE or Kuwait who goes to Egypt or Morocco to marry another woman on the sly is practically a trope in itself.
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* [[All Jews Are Ashkenazi]], [[All Jews Are Cheapskates]]... just see all the tropes listed at [[A Nice Jewish Index]].
* Israelis are are seen as a [[Proud Warrior Race]] who know five different ways to kill you before you can take a breath. See [[Badass Israeli]] and [[Israelis With Infrared Missiles]]
*
* Israeli women are all deadly beautiful, bisexual, violent, [[Hot Amazon]]. At least until they get married, at which point they mysteriously transform into a haggish [[Jewish Mother]].
* Israelis themselves have some stereotypes of Israelis, namely that they are honest—even blunt—to the point of rudeness, loudmouthed, are overly opinionated (to the point where they say "two Israelis, three opinions"), and [[Jews Love to Argue|are quick to argue about anything]].
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* The reputation of the '''Turks''' is kind of history-dependent.
** They have been seen as [[Cultural Posturing|very proud]], although for different reasons than the Iranians. For much the same reason, they are hated by all their neighbors, except for Azerbaijan.
**In Early-modern times they were seen in Europe as sort of a synonym for, well, [[Mordor]]. They had a [[Badass Army]] no reluctance to spend [[We Have Reserves|reserves]] and were [[Rape, Pillage and Burn|
**In the nineteenth century the only reason [[Vestigial Empire|for their existence]] seemed to be that nobody wanted anyone else to [[Balance of Power|get there first.]]
**Through much of the twentieth century they were an exotic place where tourists went and [[City of Spies|spies hung out.]]
* Since a "soft-Islamist" government took power in Turkey, the i mage in the Middle East has been influenced by their primary cultural export: [[Soap Opera]]s featuring rich settings, convoluted family-related melodrama (just like they like it!), and [[Ms. Fanservice|fanservice]] and [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]] beyond imagining (the star of ''[[wikipedia:Gümüş|Gümüsh]]'', [[wikipedia:Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ|Kivanc Tatliug]] is so hot several women in the Arab world were [[Driven to Suicide]] when they heard he was getting married). Turkey has since become a soft-power powerhouse in the Arab world.▼
** Turkish woman tend to be depicted as bellydancers more often than not.▼
** And since the film "[[Midnight Express]]" (1978) Turkish prisons do not have a very good reputation...
* Before their soap-opera exporting, the main image of Turkish media was (and in some areas still is) Turkish films, all made with [[No Budget]] and variable amounts of plagiarism. Expect flicks that are [[So Bad It's Good|surprisingly entertaining despite their shittyness]], full of [[Crazy Awesome]], badly acted antics, and hilariously awful special effects▼
▲* Since a "soft-Islamist" government took power in Turkey, the i mage in the Middle East has been influenced by their primary cultural export: [[Soap Opera]]s featuring rich settings, convoluted family-related melodrama (just like they like it!), and [[Ms. Fanservice|fanservice]] and [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]] beyond imagining (the star of ''[[wikipedia:Gümüş|Gümüsh]]'', [[wikipedia:Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ|Kivanc Tatliug]] is so hot several women in the Arab world were [[Driven to Suicide]] when they heard he was getting married). Turkey has since become a soft-power powerhouse in the Arab world.
▲* Before their soap-opera exporting, the main image of Turkish media was (and in some areas still is) Turkish films, all made with [[No Budget]] and variable amounts of plagiarism. Expect flicks that are [[So Bad It's Good|surprisingly entertaining despite their shittyness]], full of [[Crazy Awesome]], badly acted antics, and hilariously awful special effects.
* Back in the day, Latin America image of Turkish people was of a foreigner peddler or the owner of the local ''quincallería'' (trinket store not unlike the current day Dollar Stores), a stereotype that also engulfed any Arabic-adjacent people in similar professions. As such "el turco de la quincalla" was part of the group of foreigners manning local primordial business.
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** Thanks to [[Cracked.com|Cracked]] and several comedy websites, Australian fauna has gotten a fame of being disproportionately deadly. Yes, even the rabbits.That kangaroo there? It will kill you in a kick. That cute koala in the eucalyptus tree? It will drop out to cut your throat. Those dingoes there? Waiting to [[Memetic Mutation|steal your baby]] and eat them alive. Wanting to go to the beach? Say hello to all the demonic jellyfish in the water wanting to poison you! Deciding to stay at home to avoid [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]? Let's hope there are no spiders still inside...
* Australians are all convicts, or have at least inherited the worst aspects of their convict ancestors.
* New Zealanders seem to think of Australians as good-hearted but lazy. Public holidays are serious
* In (beat em' up)
* Stereotypes within Australia: Northern Territorians are troppo, Tasmanians are inbred, Tasmania's not a part of Australia, Queenslanders are banana-benders, South Australians are all gay, Perth is 10 years and 3 hours behind Sydney, Sydney's the gay capital, Melbourne weather sucks, Melbourne/Sydney is the best city in Oz (depends on whether you're in Victoria or New South Wales), Adelaidians eat crows. And nobody outside of Australia is aware the capital city is Canberra. Nobody inside of Australia really cares.
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* Invariably, a joke will be made about the number of sheep in the country being greater than the number of people.
* Their alleged fondness [[But You Screw One Goat!|for sheep]] tends to be the most common point of mockery.
* More recently, New Zealand has become famous through its
* Due to their
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