Cultural differences
 

Okay, i have lived in New England for the ladt (god.....) almost 13 yearsm, so needless to say, i have managed to forget a lot of what i had learned about the world from travelling as a kid. so here are some questions for the non americans and non new englanders in the forum:

From Australia:
Doe sit bug you if someone from another country calls you an "Aussie"?
Do you ever actually use the term "Down under"?
Doe sit bother you that America thinks everyone in your country is a clone of Steve Irwin or Crocodile Dundee? Or do you even care what we think?
Nature chasnnels would have us believe that Australia is swarming with snakes and spiders that will kill you in minutes. Are Funnel webs, redbacks, sea wasps, blue ringed octopuses and all those wonderful snakes really THAT big a problem?


From the UK:
Is being referred to as a "Brit" offensive?
Have you ever referred to America as "The Colonies"?
How do you feel about the idea of a monarchy?
Would you say people over there generally see Americans as ignorant?
Does it drive you nuts that Americans get self-righteous about our use of your language?
Why is it that English people are always portrayed as hating the french?


From Canada:
Do you ever feel as if you are in competition with America over anything?
Do you really like fries with Gravy?
Does it make you mad if an american snickers at your national animal being the beaver?
have you ever been mistaken for an american by someone from another country? If so, did it offend you?
Does it bother you that Americans who dont want to server their country think it is okay to run to your to hide out?
have you ever noticed that your pronounciation of words with the "ow" sound tends to be different from ours?


From the South (US):
Do some southerners really think they won the civil war?
If you are one of them, does it piss you off that we think we did?
Is it aggravating that people not from the south sometimes assume that everyone down there is a redneck?
Is it obvious to you when someone not from the south tries to speak with a southern accent?
Do you pronounce pecan "peh-cahn" or "pee-can"?

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no .. they call everyone else 'up over'
no .. just our actors that leave for the USA to make real money
no
hell no ! we're proud of our beaver !
i didnt know there were any other countries
no - they're the ones that make sense .. c'mon up !
now i mean, no

pe-cahn:D i'm from the deep south

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You are funny. You should move down here, get a house between Dan Akroyd and Jim Carrey :D


Michael J Fox is just down the road.

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From Canada:

Do you ever feel as if you are in competition with America over anything?
We stopped caring.

Do you really like fries with Gravy?
You forgot the cheese I think. Poutine is only in Quebec and Ontario.

Does it make you mad if an american snickers at your national animal being the beaver?No, I don't care.

have you ever been mistaken for an american by someone from another country? If so, did it offend you?
Yes, no I don't see how you could tell the difference anyway.

Does it bother you that Americans who dont want to serve their country think it is okay to run to your to hide out?
Nope

have you ever noticed that your pronounciation of words with the "ow" sound tends to be different from ours?
Not sure what words you mean.

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don't give a shit about the civil war
believe the south lost

i actually believe most southern people are hicks

don't care about the southern accent copy cats; i often exaggerate mine as a joke and it does annoy other.

pe-con

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dan akroyd is funny as hell, i love that guy

Vod, I live just a few short hours from you and there are cultural differences.
I live in Rhode Island......NO...its not an island.

"I'm gonna pawk the ca in the yaad"should read" I'm going to park the car in the yard."

A grinder is a sandwich.
coffee milk is a common drink here.
NY System hot weiners are also very popular.
we put vinagar as well as ketchup on our fries.

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Out, About, House.

Most Canadians i have known look at us like our heads are on backwards when we bring it up.

my personal observation is that Canadians say the "ou" sound as a round "o" in certain words, so "about" sounds like "abote", so on. I know, it's weird.

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noooo, we don't talk like that. :mad: That's like newfie talk.

I never would have guessed it before i lived here, nbut New Hmapshire is by far the most backwoods, hickish state i have ever encountered.

Tachii was very close to the mark saying that they are hicks up here. The town i live in has an alarming number of inbreds (not kidding... Seriously...a LOT)


They take the state motto ("LIve free or Die") way to seriously. fo rthe most part people here are very "my way or fuck off" with everything they do. Cut them off driving and they call the cops on you. They cut you off, they treat you like you are retarded for not just letting them in...

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i always figured that's where they got it from ..someone met a newfie

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It's like a disease!

Sorry folks.... Everyone i have met from Canada sounds like that.

Speaking of Newfies though...

When i libved in germany, one of the families at the NATO base we were at was all Newfie...


The other Canadians were fucking BRUTAL to them...

What gives?

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friendly people though ...

and they can drink pure gasoline like it's perrier

Fuck them, they make us look bad. :mad:

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From the South (US):

Do some southerners really think they won the civil war?

No one in my family is that stupid.

If you are one of them, does it piss you off that we think we did?

I'm glad you did

Is it aggravating that people not from the south sometimes
assume that everyone down there is a redneck?

Yes.

Is it obvious to you when someone not from the south tries to

Most entirely definitely.

Do you speak with a southern accent? No, and I don't know why/

you pronounce pecan "peh-cahn" or pee-can"

I say, "pee-can."

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waaaiiiiiiit a second here ...

are you saying - they ain't ?

They most certainly are not "rednecks," thank you so very much.

A REDNECK CAR ALARM

http://www.spinningloft.com/multimed...ar%20Alarm.jpg



sorry....I couldn't resist.:D

dont feel bad .. up here in canada we think everyone in the entire USA are rednecks :D

...

Im waiting for Kpro to put in his 2 cents. :)

Hearing him talk, there is absolutely no doubt he is from the south :)

And urge, we pretty much are all rednecks in one way or another.

Shit, Im a hardcore computer nerd and programmer, whihc is very non-redneck, but i live in a "Mobile Home co-op", which translates into "A trailer park. but with gardens and no axels on the houses"

:D

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they don't think they won they just can't stand that they lost, and it really pisses me off everytime I see the confederate flag. It's stupid to keep flying a flag after you lost a war, it's over get over it. My dad and I took a road trip through Tenn.,North Carolina,Georgia and Miss. and in alot of areas you see flags,t-shirts,bumber stickers ect. that say dumb shit like ''the south will rise again''. All that's telling people is that you wish you would've won and that you don't mind slavery.

yes it is Aggravating that people think we're all rednecks, don't get me wrong there's alot of 'em down here but it's not all of us, the jackasses that wave the confederate flag around qualify as top of the line rednecks though.

Yes it's painfully obvious when somebody tries to speak with a southern accent, after you've heard it all your life from people who you know are southern when you hear it from somebody who's faking it's completely obvious.

as for the last question, yes.

I'm from the boon docks!;) I could care less who won the civil war although I am gald the North did to get rid of all the hostility and shit.

I talk with an accent that I am very proud of.....ain't, ya'll, yonder.

It doesn't piss me off when people assume we are rednecks........what can I say, I'm a redneck woman.

It's funny to me when people try to impersonate a southern accent, just can't be done right.

On the real. Love Bama and wouldn't trade it for shit!;) :D

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I'd say it's about 65-35

They did? you could've fooled me.

I always got a kick out of how the north fought for freedom for the slaves, then once they all got free, the north joined the badwagon and wouldnt hire them for anything. fucking priceless.....:rolleyes:

lol it's true.

We think you're all...all...hockey freaks, I just couldn't come up with anything that could match up with redneck.

Dude, I miss hockey...

I have a Blackhawks jersey, I feel like I should be framing it.

Damn greedy athletes.:(

hey, cmon... at a 1-5 mill a year, those overgrown high-school jocks are getting robbed.....

it's not the athletes' fault, do I think they really need to make 2,7,4 and in one case 16 million dollars a year to play a game? no, but you have to realize that the owners did it to themselves. Hockey had no salary cap and the salaries weren't that high but the owners got greedy and wanted to start signing all good players so they started competing over them, steadily raising their salary until the other team gave up and that's how it started, I guess you could say that the owners created monsters that they can no longer control.

uhm ...

beaver humpers,
moose fuckers
maple syrup junkies
poutin pigs
french caretakers

touque wearin snowball eatin hockey playin snowshoe havin polar bear wrasslin' REAL BEER drinkin' igloo dwellers.


thats a start .. i havent even gunned my engine yet :D

That was VERY subtle sarcasm..:D

Not necessarily the hostility, just all the slavery bullshit. That was sum jank ass shit if u ask me!

Oh, come now, i dont have the slightest ptroblem with pro-athletes....

''jank ass shit''

what the hell is a jank? just asking.