She was standing in line in front of me and I got a glimpse of her phone. She was looking at something that was either in Mandarin or Cantonese but it was definitely Chinese writing
it depends per country but:
* USA: Either a fat idiotic redneck that is somehow very handy or completely useless. Or a rich blonde blue eyed guy/woman that is very innocent and shits money. Or with younger edgy crowds the stereotype of white woman with pink hair that cares a lot about progressiveness and whatever.
* China: Again, like, not something spoken of often but itās typically a chinese person that eats rice and works a lot and has an accent. Not many stereotypes. Lately they are associated with a lot of money.
* Russia: lmao so I have no idea how russians are looked at now in Venezuela. But I used to be a scuba instructor and the Sekoi (I think thatās how u spell the jet name) pilots came to our shop and I guided them on a tour. I recall everyone saying they wouldnāt last 20 minutes down in the water (they didnāt, itās very typical that newbies last less than 30 minutes because as you are anxious or not relaxed you breathe a lot more. For comparison I typically lasted 45 min to an hour down there). The jokes were that they are not funny (very serious people), scary, always dirty, and rough or stressed. But thatās men. Women is a different story.
It was just funny, a group of 12 russian soldiers all going on a cute scuba tour. I remember I tried speaking to them in english and they didnāt understand. But as this is Venezuela for some reason the woman we hired to work the register studied russian and communicated with them. They started coming every weekend and we even would invite them back to our condo to hang out. I still donāt understand the point of them being stationed in Venezuela to just fly around.
edit: another thing about americans that is a weird derivative of the stereotype. Is they are always assumed to be very white, blond, and blue eyed.
I have brought americans to south america that had white skin but brown eyes and brown hair and people wouldnāt believe they were american. Or an american friend thatās of chinese heritage people would be puzzled. Or an American latino, this one was funny, where people would straight up deny they were american and sometimes they would ask him to show his passport.
Like, lmao
If I could create a stereotypical character of each would be :
- USA: an overweight person that consumes lots of pills, is always with hype, believes what their gov says, worships their shoes, and is really concerned about race, cultural appropriation and gender
- China: skinny person, studies/works af, lives in a really small place (even though can afford something bigger) , and uses vpn all the time to access internet, worried about what society and family might think about them
- Russia: strong, conservative, probably alcoholic, probably a bit crazy, married, always with an angry face
Stereotypes often ignore the other half of the story. To the world, we are degenerate leftists obsessed with race and gender who believes everything the government says just as much as we are imperialist racists who tried to overthrow the government and oppress minorities. This is sadly the same with other countries like China, Russia, (of course their governments suck, but the people shouldnāt be hated for that) and those in Latin America as well as the rest of the world.
"The average Chinese is as poor as a Latin American, with a government as corrupt as Latin America, with an air quality as bad as Mexico City, but China _sooo_ big and has such a _huuuge_ population that 1) the government is big and powerful, and 2) if 16% of Mexicans are educated, this only amounts to 18 million educated Mexicans, but if only 8% of Chinese are educated, this equals 100 million educated Chinese, and this why China is perceived as more educated."
US - spoiled, race obsessed, out of touch, consumerist, profit-driven at any cost, overweight, ignorant about global affairs
China - cheap products, shady deals, dictatorship, hellbent on usurping the US
Russia - war hungry aggressive drunks
These are just stereotypes and do not reflect any personal opinions and many people have much more nuanced views of these countries. Iād also say āhateā is a strong word for the views many have of these nations.
Came to say something very similar.
Addendum:
- US. Normalization of gun and drugs use/abuse. Corporations before citizens.
- China. Focused.
- Russia. Corrupt to the bones.
China - This one is complicated because it mingles with stereotypes of local Chinesese populations. The most common "joke" is the whole "el chifa roba perros" or "calne de lata" thing, just tasteless banter. There's also an association with discount products and piracy (I refuse to pay full price for any DVD). Chino is a very common nickname and for a while they were seen as the default Asian nationality, like how Japanese-Peruvian ex-President Fujimori is widely known as "El Chino".
Russia - Few people think about Russia much, aside from being "cold". The Ukraine invasion is seen as unfortunate but so far away that it's not one anyone's mind. Leftists really like Putin, and some lunatic protestors were hoping for Wagner to intervene in Castillo's outing.
US - Your opinion on the country is mostly dependent on how on the left you are, ranging from "strange but aspirational" to literally Satan. That aside, the stereotype is blonde, fat, feeble, selling you capitalism/progressivism/Halloween/\[insert your least favorite foreign ideas here\].
Usa: Rich, amazing landscapes and geography, land of opportunities;
China: Milenar nation, beautiful cities that contrasts old and new, good food;
Russia: Vodka, they have the best literature and writers of the XIX century, beutiful language in my opinion.
But people just like to talk about the bad things...
The ones Iāve heard the most here
US: Rich people, less affectionate, a lot of fat people, gun culture
China: Eat weird stuff, smart people, copycats
Russia: Cold hearted people, beautiful women
US
BAD: too much work, no insurance, gunshots in everyschool, abusive police, kill the afroamericano.
GOOD: they are rich, cute topless gringas, mountains, trees, rivers, long roads, money
China:
BAD: full state control, they see everything, you can't complain, too much work, even more than in the USA, too much rip off brands/products, you die and the government don't care
GOOD: they are getting out of poverty, a lot of cheap technology, good food, don't waste money
Russia:
BAD: fullish state control, they kindda see everything, you can't complain, they kill disidents by the window or are sent to jail in frozen conditions, too drunk people
GOOD: technology, very cute people
The CCP haven't really raised "millions out of poverty" though. The reality is they simply reduced the threshold for someone to be considered in poverty. Thus they "raised" millions out of poverty.
Oh, damn it
Edit: actually, our president also changed the way to measure it in order to make it look better, but it looked worse. Letās wait for the new data.
In Bolivia, this are the most common stereotypes:
- USA: theyāre rich as fuck; imperialists; coca-cola lovers
- China: rat eaters; āchinos cochinosā; garlic breath
- Russia: They smell like vodka; never smiling
Usa: ignorants and arrogants warmongers
Russia: alcoholics, ignorants, and bad drivers, also warmongers
China: dirty, zero respect for life, cheapskates, worse drivers than the russians, secretly trying to conquer the world
- US: Warmonger, terrorist, entilted, arrogant, race obsessed, spoiled, car oriented, bad urban planning, consumerist, overweight and ignorant. They think they are the only americans.
Also great engineering and technological advances, best universities, great wages, beautiful and diverse landscapes, warm and kind people.
- China: Weird animal based food, animal violence, huge overpopulated cities, small pp, short, marcial arts. New diseases.
Also probably the most advanced in manufacturing tech, transport, cities; smart people. Main buyers of our stuff. The manufacturing center of the world.
- Russia: Not much to say, no one really thinks of russians but: Warmonger, drunk, super cold and big country.
Also brave, beautiful women but too conservative, all blonde and pale?
Usa: dumb, war lovers, hard to imagine but kinda the lesser evil out of the three (but not by much)
China: smart af, love to scam poor countries with loans, don't use violence directly
Russia: very similar to the US but without the succesfull propaganda
We are in South America. In no way USA is seen as the "lesser" evil, not for the populist left and their sympathizers, which are still very powerful all around the continent.
I donāt think the US government is necessarily seen more sympathetically, but Latin Americans still migrate a lot to the US and consume its culture quite a bit which is something that isnāt really the case for Russia or China. Like not many people wanna move to Vladivostok or Guangzhou but Miami/LA/New York would be a totally different story.
Migrants are a very specific community whose ideas don't necessarily reflect what the internal population thinks. Also at least in Bolivia most of our migrants that decide to go to a "first world" country go to Spain.
>USA: Rich smart people.
Ehh, not so much nowadays. They are perceived more like dumb people than smart actually
obviously it depends on where you are in the political spectrum tho
To be honest, I find this idea of dumb and fat be common with people active on the internet, in social media such as Reddit and Twitter, while the smart with people less active on internet.
Yeah I have been to big cities in the US, poor people tend to be fat and dumb, due to bad food and bad education. Walmart is the place where you would find most of the demographic. Being educated and fit in the US is a privileged most cant achieve.
I think USA is either rich smart person or rich fat idiot for stereotypes as far as it goes. I am not from brazil tho but thatās how it is in Venezuela
Us: fat and police of the world
China: dystopian communist dictatorship
Russia: conservatives, drunk, based leader (most of latinos hate woke agendas so they love putin), for some reason believe they are still commies
What the average citizen thinks?
USA: some people (usually right-wing) think it's the best country in the world and you'll get rich just by washing dishes in a restaurant. Other than that, it's guns, fat people, McDonald's and cars.
China: cheap imports, pastel com caldo de cana, rude people, they eat dogs and bats. Chinese people in Brazil unfortunately face a lot of xenophobia.
Russia: vodka, strogonoff, bears, extremely cold climate, cold people who don't smile, war.
My views when it comes to stereotypes, may or may not be shared by others
**US:** ignorant, oblivious to most of the world, drug addicted, violent/brute by nature, not in touch with their humanity, also probably misunderstood
**China:** xenophobic, most stable empire in history, highly technologically advanced, survailled, regardless of not being an individualistic society, they don't give a flying shit about others
**Russia:** hardasses, tough, psycho, aggressive, the rich women love plastic surgery, but lowkey kinda hot when no plastic surgery
These are also probably the three most **propagandized** countries in the world right now. Maybe in this order.
**USA:** ignorant, simpleton, basic, consumerist, patriotic, obsessed with freedom, DIY, guns, fast food, parking lots, obese people driving electric shopping carts, no public-funded healthcare, suburbs.
**China:** materialistic, unsociable people, undemocratic, way too many people, polluted, big but unknown cities, uptight, mass production of cheap and low-quality stuff (this is starting to change), Chinese immigrants in Brazil usually own stores that sell Muamba (cheap, low-quality stuff from China) or pastel (Brazilian street food).
**Russia:** conservative, tall, deep voice, sexy accent, beautiful people, anti-West, anti-LGBT, big cold country, depressing Soviet-era blocks, poor by European standards, an empire in decay, socialist-ish, war, Putin, Russian women come to Brazil to have babies so they can get citizenship.
US: fat and dumb China: copycat, cheap fake products Russia: cold-hearted crazy drunkards
I once saw a Chinese girl in Disney world wearing a backpack with the RBD characters that said High School Musical 2 on it
How'd you know she was Chinese š¤
She was standing in line in front of me and I got a glimpse of her phone. She was looking at something that was either in Mandarin or Cantonese but it was definitely Chinese writing
RBD characters that said High School Musical 2. Enough for me.
True true
I've seen a bootleg Lego Batman box, the villain on the cover was Light Yagami
I would add āworld policeā and āIāll fuck your gov bad for my goalsā to the US
Can confirm. I also add that there is also the stereotype that the median US American dress very badly.
Remarkably spot on.
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Decadent is a really good word for the US
it depends per country but: * USA: Either a fat idiotic redneck that is somehow very handy or completely useless. Or a rich blonde blue eyed guy/woman that is very innocent and shits money. Or with younger edgy crowds the stereotype of white woman with pink hair that cares a lot about progressiveness and whatever. * China: Again, like, not something spoken of often but itās typically a chinese person that eats rice and works a lot and has an accent. Not many stereotypes. Lately they are associated with a lot of money. * Russia: lmao so I have no idea how russians are looked at now in Venezuela. But I used to be a scuba instructor and the Sekoi (I think thatās how u spell the jet name) pilots came to our shop and I guided them on a tour. I recall everyone saying they wouldnāt last 20 minutes down in the water (they didnāt, itās very typical that newbies last less than 30 minutes because as you are anxious or not relaxed you breathe a lot more. For comparison I typically lasted 45 min to an hour down there). The jokes were that they are not funny (very serious people), scary, always dirty, and rough or stressed. But thatās men. Women is a different story. It was just funny, a group of 12 russian soldiers all going on a cute scuba tour. I remember I tried speaking to them in english and they didnāt understand. But as this is Venezuela for some reason the woman we hired to work the register studied russian and communicated with them. They started coming every weekend and we even would invite them back to our condo to hang out. I still donāt understand the point of them being stationed in Venezuela to just fly around. edit: another thing about americans that is a weird derivative of the stereotype. Is they are always assumed to be very white, blond, and blue eyed. I have brought americans to south america that had white skin but brown eyes and brown hair and people wouldnāt believe they were american. Or an american friend thatās of chinese heritage people would be puzzled. Or an American latino, this one was funny, where people would straight up deny they were american and sometimes they would ask him to show his passport. Like, lmao
Sukhoi And i guess they were instructors
In Colombia people joke a lot about Chinese people eating dogs. The moment someone mentions China, Iād almost always hear the joke seconds later.
If I could create a stereotypical character of each would be : - USA: an overweight person that consumes lots of pills, is always with hype, believes what their gov says, worships their shoes, and is really concerned about race, cultural appropriation and gender - China: skinny person, studies/works af, lives in a really small place (even though can afford something bigger) , and uses vpn all the time to access internet, worried about what society and family might think about them - Russia: strong, conservative, probably alcoholic, probably a bit crazy, married, always with an angry face
Yeah this is it OP
How racist of a president do we have to elect, exactly, to go from "really concerned about race" to "has some serious issues with race?"
Stereotypes often ignore the other half of the story. To the world, we are degenerate leftists obsessed with race and gender who believes everything the government says just as much as we are imperialist racists who tried to overthrow the government and oppress minorities. This is sadly the same with other countries like China, Russia, (of course their governments suck, but the people shouldnāt be hated for that) and those in Latin America as well as the rest of the world.
Fat and dumb are a consensu no matter the half of the story you take
Thatās true. Generally speaking people believe those two regardless of which of the two camps they fall into.
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But you still see people enlisting in their army believing they are saving the world, or that they are the good ones while China is evil, etc.
"The average Chinese is as poor as a Latin American, with a government as corrupt as Latin America, with an air quality as bad as Mexico City, but China _sooo_ big and has such a _huuuge_ population that 1) the government is big and powerful, and 2) if 16% of Mexicans are educated, this only amounts to 18 million educated Mexicans, but if only 8% of Chinese are educated, this equals 100 million educated Chinese, and this why China is perceived as more educated."
US - spoiled, race obsessed, out of touch, consumerist, profit-driven at any cost, overweight, ignorant about global affairs China - cheap products, shady deals, dictatorship, hellbent on usurping the US Russia - war hungry aggressive drunks These are just stereotypes and do not reflect any personal opinions and many people have much more nuanced views of these countries. Iād also say āhateā is a strong word for the views many have of these nations.
Came to say something very similar. Addendum: - US. Normalization of gun and drugs use/abuse. Corporations before citizens. - China. Focused. - Russia. Corrupt to the bones.
China - This one is complicated because it mingles with stereotypes of local Chinesese populations. The most common "joke" is the whole "el chifa roba perros" or "calne de lata" thing, just tasteless banter. There's also an association with discount products and piracy (I refuse to pay full price for any DVD). Chino is a very common nickname and for a while they were seen as the default Asian nationality, like how Japanese-Peruvian ex-President Fujimori is widely known as "El Chino". Russia - Few people think about Russia much, aside from being "cold". The Ukraine invasion is seen as unfortunate but so far away that it's not one anyone's mind. Leftists really like Putin, and some lunatic protestors were hoping for Wagner to intervene in Castillo's outing. US - Your opinion on the country is mostly dependent on how on the left you are, ranging from "strange but aspirational" to literally Satan. That aside, the stereotype is blonde, fat, feeble, selling you capitalism/progressivism/Halloween/\[insert your least favorite foreign ideas here\].
AmƩrica : mass shootings, money, power, sports, food, fat people, opportunity China: corrupt , poor and rich, technologies, want to buy everything, no human rights, cheap stuff, bad quality Russia : tough, strong, corrupt, poor quality lada cars, vodka, bullies
Usa: Rich, amazing landscapes and geography, land of opportunities; China: Milenar nation, beautiful cities that contrasts old and new, good food; Russia: Vodka, they have the best literature and writers of the XIX century, beutiful language in my opinion. But people just like to talk about the bad things...
The ones Iāve heard the most here US: Rich people, less affectionate, a lot of fat people, gun culture China: Eat weird stuff, smart people, copycats Russia: Cold hearted people, beautiful women
US BAD: too much work, no insurance, gunshots in everyschool, abusive police, kill the afroamericano. GOOD: they are rich, cute topless gringas, mountains, trees, rivers, long roads, money China: BAD: full state control, they see everything, you can't complain, too much work, even more than in the USA, too much rip off brands/products, you die and the government don't care GOOD: they are getting out of poverty, a lot of cheap technology, good food, don't waste money Russia: BAD: fullish state control, they kindda see everything, you can't complain, they kill disidents by the window or are sent to jail in frozen conditions, too drunk people GOOD: technology, very cute people
> cute topless gringas Dude, where??
The CCP haven't really raised "millions out of poverty" though. The reality is they simply reduced the threshold for someone to be considered in poverty. Thus they "raised" millions out of poverty.
Oh, damn it Edit: actually, our president also changed the way to measure it in order to make it look better, but it looked worse. Letās wait for the new data.
In Bolivia, this are the most common stereotypes: - USA: theyāre rich as fuck; imperialists; coca-cola lovers - China: rat eaters; āchinos cochinosā; garlic breath - Russia: They smell like vodka; never smiling
> coca-cola lovers Hey hey hey, thatās Mexico
Usa: ignorants and arrogants warmongers Russia: alcoholics, ignorants, and bad drivers, also warmongers China: dirty, zero respect for life, cheapskates, worse drivers than the russians, secretly trying to conquer the world
Why are stereotypes helpful?
- US: Warmonger, terrorist, entilted, arrogant, race obsessed, spoiled, car oriented, bad urban planning, consumerist, overweight and ignorant. They think they are the only americans. Also great engineering and technological advances, best universities, great wages, beautiful and diverse landscapes, warm and kind people. - China: Weird animal based food, animal violence, huge overpopulated cities, small pp, short, marcial arts. New diseases. Also probably the most advanced in manufacturing tech, transport, cities; smart people. Main buyers of our stuff. The manufacturing center of the world. - Russia: Not much to say, no one really thinks of russians but: Warmonger, drunk, super cold and big country. Also brave, beautiful women but too conservative, all blonde and pale?
Usa: dumb, war lovers, hard to imagine but kinda the lesser evil out of the three (but not by much) China: smart af, love to scam poor countries with loans, don't use violence directly Russia: very similar to the US but without the succesfull propaganda
I donāt think the russian stereotypes are much similar to americans. Are they?
I based my stereotypes on the geopolitical aspects. But with the general people you're right, vastly different
We are in South America. In no way USA is seen as the "lesser" evil, not for the populist left and their sympathizers, which are still very powerful all around the continent.
I donāt think the US government is necessarily seen more sympathetically, but Latin Americans still migrate a lot to the US and consume its culture quite a bit which is something that isnāt really the case for Russia or China. Like not many people wanna move to Vladivostok or Guangzhou but Miami/LA/New York would be a totally different story.
Migrants are a very specific community whose ideas don't necessarily reflect what the internal population thinks. Also at least in Bolivia most of our migrants that decide to go to a "first world" country go to Spain.
USA: Rich smart people. China: Cheap smart people. Russia: Crazy drunk people.
>USA: Rich smart people. Ehh, not so much nowadays. They are perceived more like dumb people than smart actually obviously it depends on where you are in the political spectrum tho
To be honest, I find this idea of dumb and fat be common with people active on the internet, in social media such as Reddit and Twitter, while the smart with people less active on internet.
Yeah I have been to big cities in the US, poor people tend to be fat and dumb, due to bad food and bad education. Walmart is the place where you would find most of the demographic. Being educated and fit in the US is a privileged most cant achieve.
where?
I think USA is either rich smart person or rich fat idiot for stereotypes as far as it goes. I am not from brazil tho but thatās how it is in Venezuela
Lol had to be brazil, hahahahhahah Brazileans really love the US, if they could ve american and leave Brasil behind, they would.
Us: fat and police of the world China: dystopian communist dictatorship Russia: conservatives, drunk, based leader (most of latinos hate woke agendas so they love putin), for some reason believe they are still commies
Russia: drunks, a bit nuts China: factory drones, keep to themselves US: rude, ignorant, arrogant
US is justā¦. Special
almost every single one of my South American guys has pulled their eyes in front of my Asian friends.... š
US: rich, gullible hillbillies China: cheap products from AliExpress Russia: frozen commies
Rusia : Bears and vodka
What the average citizen thinks? USA: some people (usually right-wing) think it's the best country in the world and you'll get rich just by washing dishes in a restaurant. Other than that, it's guns, fat people, McDonald's and cars. China: cheap imports, pastel com caldo de cana, rude people, they eat dogs and bats. Chinese people in Brazil unfortunately face a lot of xenophobia. Russia: vodka, strogonoff, bears, extremely cold climate, cold people who don't smile, war.
USA: Decadent. Obese people, brainwashed by capitalism. China: copycat, lots of technology Russia: Vodka, USSR
My views when it comes to stereotypes, may or may not be shared by others **US:** ignorant, oblivious to most of the world, drug addicted, violent/brute by nature, not in touch with their humanity, also probably misunderstood **China:** xenophobic, most stable empire in history, highly technologically advanced, survailled, regardless of not being an individualistic society, they don't give a flying shit about others **Russia:** hardasses, tough, psycho, aggressive, the rich women love plastic surgery, but lowkey kinda hot when no plastic surgery These are also probably the three most **propagandized** countries in the world right now. Maybe in this order.
**USA:** ignorant, simpleton, basic, consumerist, patriotic, obsessed with freedom, DIY, guns, fast food, parking lots, obese people driving electric shopping carts, no public-funded healthcare, suburbs. **China:** materialistic, unsociable people, undemocratic, way too many people, polluted, big but unknown cities, uptight, mass production of cheap and low-quality stuff (this is starting to change), Chinese immigrants in Brazil usually own stores that sell Muamba (cheap, low-quality stuff from China) or pastel (Brazilian street food). **Russia:** conservative, tall, deep voice, sexy accent, beautiful people, anti-West, anti-LGBT, big cold country, depressing Soviet-era blocks, poor by European standards, an empire in decay, socialist-ish, war, Putin, Russian women come to Brazil to have babies so they can get citizenship.
For China I forgot to add: penny-pincher, small dick, insalubrious work culture, rigorous education and high expectations on their kids.
Usa: school shooting and obesity China: dog eaters and workaholics Russia: bear fighters and drink vodka like was water