You're generalizing for the most part. The South just gets a very bad rap because of the loud radicals that live there. Most of the people are actually very nice, it's just people won't notice them on a wide scale because they don't make a scene while the more lunatic people will get worldwide publicity.
Ugh, the south. They talk funny, they drive in the wrong side of the road, and their animals are really funky-looking. I mean, what's up with koalas, man? Not like here up north. Scandinavia master race!
I have lots of good online friends in South America. Any generalisations/stereotypes are usually poking light fun at a situation and therefore shouldn't be taken to heart. It would be like ME getting offended for people jokingly calling me a Satanic, Antichrist worshipping heathen for wearing an upside down cross and sticking an upside down Jesus on a cross on the wall above my bed. (Which is an inside joke.) People should all learn the relief of being able to joke about themselves in the same way others joke about them. It is rewarding and you find that you'll enjoy it once you get a few entertaining insults to work with. In conclusion. PLZ NO BUTTHURT. - - Auto Merge - - ZEPHIE Plz no hurt me. Pls no moar war. I hope you see pic of my sorry in Phobia forum. No hurt me, I just sell pixiedust for a living I have babies pls my babies need me they die without their suga mumma pls.
Because of the high ratio of religious nutcases, racists, and bigots. People are generally pretty nice. Just don't bring up any hot button issues, politics, or religion, or they can turn ugly quick. Speaking from the experience of dealing with my family. Sent from my DROID3 using Tapatalk 2
That's a lie, and you know it. You claim to be from the South, and you've never heard the phrase "Damn Yankee?!" I call bullcrap.
"Australia is a terrible place that leaves none but the strongest alive. Why else would the British have designated the entire continent as a PRISON COLONY for the worst scum of the earth Britain had to offer? " - Australia on Badass of the Week. Believe it or not, there is some level of truth in these statements ! We have the most concentrated amount of aggressive, evil AND poisonous animals in the world, we have Box Jellyfish which can kill you 4 minutes after you have been stung, the saltwater crocodile which is THE LARGEST REPTILE ON EARTH, the blue ringed octopus where the LD-50 of its venom (as in, the amount of the substance that will kill 50% of the test subjects) is so high that a single dose is enough to kill 20 grown men. The plants are dangerous as well as there is a plant only known as "The Stinging Tree" which has been known to have killed people and then there's the platypus. Even through it doesnt kill you straight away, you will be begging for death. All human victims of Platypus stings suffer immediate hyperalgesia (clinical hypersensitivity to any sensation of pain) for weeks or even months after the sting! It's the countrys way of politely saying "Dont F*** with me." And since Australia has earned it's reputation as such a dangerous place in the world due to it's enviroment and animals, authors have stood to reason that anyone who can survive there must be quite a bit tougher than your ordinary human. "Australians (specifically, Anglo-Australian males) in fiction are often portrayed as über-masculine rough-and-tumble supermen, champion outdoorsmen who tear up the outback in their Jeeps and have never met a crocodile they couldn't wrestle" (From TV tropes listed under Awesome Aussie.). And besides, i never liked the cold in the north. I'd rather go surfing anyday.
And I'm part of that little quiet nation living next to the partying obnoxious loud people Naaaa, NZ and aussie are broskies.
The only difference is most of the local Critters in Australia such as the Redback and the Funnelweb Spider live in suburban homes as opposed to America where Grizzlies are mostly contained in National Wildlife Parks. But that's mostly in the inland cities, I don't think you find to many of the bigger snakes and things in the Major cities such as Sydney Perth or Canberra I'm probably wrong though. That said, America has it's fair share of Dangerous spiders and snakes like all countries. (Except New Zealand, the most dangerous thing there is Xan...Love ya Xan )
You'll always have that one guy who isn't affected by anything. South Africa has it's fair share of those people. I'm not being racist at all here, in fact I have a great respect for these people. But I've seen tsotsi's or Gangsters try to attack a fairly large Xhosa Woman here before only to be sent flying with a good fat backhand, I kid you not, those women are strong.
I notice there are two kinds of replies here. People who think South means the Southern hemisphere of the world, and people who think South means Southern USA. Taking a wild guess based off 'Murican narcissism, I'm guessing he meant The South to mean Southern USA. And to answer your question: because rednecks, yeehaw, catfish, jesus, Jeff Foxworthy and Baptists. Which is roughly about as equivalent (and sane) as saying you hate the northeast because Jersey Shore. People generalize, also the whole "crazy minorities being the loudest" thing Zeph was goin' on about.
I dislike the south as much as the West and the east coast. I have no issues with the north though. They seem pretty cool.
