Are American Stereotypes Offensive?

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So you c***s are trying to be 'Strayan now?

My mistake, I thought this was the Are Australian Stereotypes Offensive thread.
Now if you'll excuse me I've got to pour maple syrup on my pet beaver while we do some Mountie vs. lumberjack roleplaying.

You're unaware that any countries outside America exist. How many countries take part in the "World Series"?

Basically all the Americans I have encountered in Denmark have been polite, well-dressed and sophisticated.

But I live in Copenhagen, and we tend to attract affluent tourists and professional ex-pats from the US, who are generally more cultivated than the average Joe/Werner/Antonio/Ali/Ivan/Réne/Ahmet/Haruto/Rudra/Wei/Lorenzo. If I visited a standard beach-and-bar resort, I might encounter the typical decadent short-selling Yuppie Wall Street Hedge Fund psychopaths and inbred bigoted fundie hillbilly trailer trash American citizens of more questionable moral fibre.

In Denmark, we were about to be visited by an exceptionally boorish, impertinent and uncouth churl of US origin back in 2019. He confirmed just about every offensive stereotype about Americans (and then some)... He thankfully cancelled the trip when he found out Greenland wasn't for sale, though.

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Or you think England is just off the coast of Newfoundland, with the English Channel in between.

Many of us over here were hoping he would get locked inside a windmill or lost in a polder and never come back.

TIL there are polders in Denmark.

Four scholars were given the job of studying bigfoot creatures. A German, a Frenchman, an American, and a Jew.

Six months later each submitted a treatise for publication.

The German presented a heavy thick exhaustive tome entitled "the definitive study of Bigfoot".

The Frenchman published a slender, but elegant pamphlet entitled "the Love Life of Bigfoot".

The American produced a DVD entitled "Raising Bigfoot Creatures in your own Backyard...For Fun and Profit!"

The Jewish gentlemen submitted a dissertation entitled "Bigfoot, and Antisemitism".

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You tell me.

Number three doesnt seem so bad to me.

For real.

Its not obvious whether Fnord is (a) pretending to confuse Denmark with the Netherlands on purpose as a joke to demonstrate the...stereotype...of American cluelessness about the rest of the world, or (b) he is accidentally demonstrating that stereotype by REALLY having the Netherlands and Denmark confused!

The f***? No we f***in' don't...

On a more serious note, I think that just goes in general for most cuss words. I know too many people who have an issue with swearing in most of their sentences, and I've been sometimes guilty of that myself while talking to certain friends.

Do people in other countries have this issue, or is this just a 'Murican issue?

It's my impression the British outdo us in this regard. But remember that in Britain it's not considered obscene to call someone a c**t.

What happens to American tourists when they decide to go off the guided tours

No, I am just being a typically ignorant/clueless American.

Sorry about that.

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I never go on "guided tours" containing lots of tourists----except for those "hop in, hop out" buses.

I like to go with someone with a van who knows the country well.....and go with maybe 4 or 5 other people, preferably from different locales.

Yeah it really is. It's not considered obscene to admit you're going to the toilet though, we don't have to pretend we're going for a rest in the restroom or a bath in the bathroom.

I'd stereotype Aussies as swearing more than Canucks or Yanks and I often swear more than than I'd stereotype as the norm for Aussies.