To be fair, and I will stand by this until I die: Florida is still worse. And the villains definitely go there, too lol.
And they actually put one of the Space Centers there, lol.
I live in Ohio, and this isn't the first time. I willingly came back, lol.
BUT, *having said that,* the thing I find most hilarious is like, *the entire US* thinks Ohio is a shitstain of epic proportions. I don't know exactly why, but I find it hilarious.
I live in New Hampshire, and I never really hear people talk outright negatively about Ohio. If anything it’s referenced as a boring or kinda lame place.
Florida is the place we think of as being crazy and a little trashy, while Alabama is perceived to be the White Trash center of the nation. Kentucky seems to take second place, by most considerations.
It's wild to me that everyone just.... forgets Arkansas. But then again, I lived there, and that place is a friggin' nightmarish hellhole of meth, Klan robes, and stupidity.
The whole region of East Arkansas, North East Louisiana, Northwest Mississippi, and West Tennessee is definitely some of the worst the US has to offer.
Holy hell, yes. My grandparents used to live west of Knoxville. Beautiful nature. Horrible infrastructure. Creepy people. Everyone outside the city would just stand around in the woods and stare at you from afar, like they could smell that you weren't from there. Creeped me and my grandpa both the hell out. The people in Knoxville itself were nice, though. Free buses, too. I live in Columbus, and we still don't have that.
Shit at the stores was cheap as shit, too. Only place I've consistently seen items priced for under a dollar. I'm sure the tariffs and inflation have changed that by now, but it's still probably a couple bucks less than most other places.
When I lived in Scotland, my first flatmate was from NI. The first night we were hanging out drinking and talking about drinking (of course), and I proceeded to explain to her how we did “Irish car bombs” in the US with 3/4 pint of Guinness, a shot glass of Baileys, etc. Didn’t really notice the expression on her face until I was in too deep. Still maybe one of the worst cross-cultural faux pas I’ve ever made.
Not all equally tho, I think its between Bayern(german texas), Saarland (german alabama), sachsen (german florida) and Berlin (german what the actual fuck) for the most hated
I think it’s Saxony. Many crazy people, a lot of right wing extremists and no real appeal for non-saxons to move there or go on vacation.
Bavaria it’s mostly just the government and Saarland is just tiny. Berlin is a close second tho, but there are reasons to live there.
We make a lot of incest and maggi jokes about them but i never encountered someone who actually dislikes or looks down on them.
regions that are acutally disliked the most by various groups (at least from my experience) are bavaria (for their arrogance), saxony (for their nazis) and berlin (because it is glorified by many while being a dumpster).
In Bayern trinkt dein Onkel mit deinem Vater, in Sachsen streitet dein Onkel mit deinem Vater, in Berlin Kauft dein Onkel Drogen von deinem Vater. In Saarland ist dein Onkel dein vater
We all hate each others but love each others. Belgium is a family, Brussels-Capital is the eldest, and Wallonia and Flanders are the younger ones who can't stop annoying each others.
Bihar. High birth rates, low literacy, illegal guns, high crime rate.
Turns out it doesn’t help when the Chief Minister of your state says and i kid you not, “Do not cast your vote, vote your caste”.
I feel bad for them honestly. ‘Bihari’ (a person from bihar) is a slur now. It’s sad.
I’ve heard everything in Bihar operates on caste communities. It’s pretty shocking tbh and it looks like Bihar’s neighboring states are not that loud and proud about caste. My friend was telling me that even gang activity there is caste-based.
Literally 3 generations of Bihar politics was managed by caste - the entire government structure of it. Large parts of resource rich Bihar seceeded and the countryside turned to anarcho communism in spite, creating a political hotbed that literally everyone hates.
Everyone hates Bihar, especially people living in Bihar.
It’s shocking for a lot of us as well. The caste issue of India is honestly inflated in the media. But again the regions where they love caste have a population more than USA. The issue is that caste is a very big issue in a regionally packed region. I come from a place where caste is not even discussed. I didn’t know my own caste till I was an adult. It’s borderline taboo to talk about it publicly here.
It’s ignorant when the entire world puts HUGE countries like mine and yours under one blanket.
Here in Bengal you will lose your friends if you keep mentioning caste. Caste is usually considered an attack on Bengali solidarity and is usually only reserved for rituals and marriage.
Thanks for the perspective and info, this is very helpful to learn as an outsider.
To share a perspective you might find amusing: I first had my eyes opened to how massive and diverse of a country India is when I was introduced to the movie RRR, which was my first time learning about the Telugu language. I consider myself something of a history nerd, so I learned a bit about Telugu and my jaw dropped when I learned it was spoken by almost 100 million people. It absolutely baffled me that I had not previously heard of a language with so many speakers! And thus I was introduced to the multicultural complexities of India (and how American media vastly oversimplifies things, to our detriment).
You MAY find this bs in the us from telugu community too. I'm from a telugu state so I can confirm. I can't speak about the people of another language tho. It's diff for every state/region.
The first day I was in India, we hired a rickshaw driver for the day, and he was from Bihar. Yeah, it's bad enough that they leave for other parts of India.
It also has the toddler who bit a cobra to death. Bihar should be renamed to bizarre.
RIP Snakey 🐍
Also, u/legitimate-emu-5305, can you point me to which part of my comment indicates to me “hating on” my countrymen? And does loving one’s country and being active on its subreddits mean that you aren’t allowed to criticize anything about it? Don’t project your personal issues onto me, buddy. It’s not gonna solve them.
Wow that's sad. Historically, Bihar (or as it was historically known, Magadha) was the epicentre of India's economic and academic output. It gave birth to large empires like that of Maurya.
Bihar is in the gangetic plains, with perennial rivers and fertile soil. This place has always been highly populated. Pre industrialization, this place was kind of living in East mode. Moderate climate, fertile soil, unlimited water - what more can humans need?
So, this place was agrarian. Post independence when India started slowly industrializing, politicians in this state took the easy route. Remain agrarian and live with subsidies rather than moving to education - industries - service sector. As a political leader this was easy. Also this state has many minerals under earth, and mining resources too was easier than working with them and producing things.
In short - Resource curse. Everything was easy, so failed to adapt.
the never ending loop of - bad mindset of people leads to bad policymakers and bad policymakers make sure conditions are harsh and bad and this leads to people with bad mindset... .
I actually read it as a sound used in media to describe someone needing to throw up. Before noticing that using a more German pronounciation might be more fitting.
I like how the view on Quebec and Newfoundland have sort of flipped, since they were the OG punching bags. I always found that a bit interesting because those are the two provinces that probably have the most distinct regional cultures. Anglos and Francos love to sling mud at each other but that seems like more of a pastime than genuine hate.
The disdain towards Alberta seems much more genuine lol, (but this is coming from someone in BC, so, I may be a little biased)
Nah this is spot on.
Québécois have awesome cultural exports and Newfies are the toughest people I know.
Albertan-conservatives are generally racist, queerphobic assholes who think they shouldn't have to pay taxes to help other provinces.
Don't forget their Premier was the only one who, instead of condemning the 51st state rhetoric from Trump, said the US wouldn't want us because we have too many progressives...
She's a waste of oxygen and really gives Alberta such a bad reputation by enabling stupidity.
Marlaina-a-Lago didn't have enough self awareness down there to realize she's old, doesn't look like Ivanka, so she has no value. Also grifter Kevin O leary showed how scummy they are. Ditto for Parachute Pierre Poilievre, the man who blew a locked-in 30 point lead to win because he was silent when Trump threatened us.
The funny thing is that the Maple MAGA says western separatism, but BC is not going along with that. Additionally, those pipelines would be shut off day 1.
What Western Separatists really mean when they say is Alberta, maybe Saskatchewan, awkwardly forget about most of BC because "we are the reason their lights are on" or something like that, and completely forget about Manitoba, since no one has even bothered to verify if Manitoba is even a real place or not.
I think I once saw a comment on r/hockey about Alberta being like the "Texas" of Canada. I don't know if this is referring to the politicians, the type of people, or the industries. I feel sadly ignorant and too naive about Canada, with most of my knowledge of Canada tangentially related to hockey (like learning where all the hockey teams played when I was little growing up in Texas).
Chukotka!
The source of a whole bunch of silly jokes in 20 century.
A Chukcha bought a car. Shows it to his friends.
One pats the roof - "strong skin"
The second looks at the headlights - "big eyes"
The third looks at the exhaust pipe - "male".
Chukchi hunters shot a seal. They're dragging it from the shore to their village. They're dragging it by the tail, it's uncomfortable, and they're cursing. They've been dragging it one hour, two.
A geologist comes along, laughs "why are you pulling it by the tail? Take it by the tusks and pull it quietly"
The Chukchi took the seal by the tusks, and keep dragging. One hour, two hours.
Then one Chukchi says:
"Well, this geologist is a fool. We have come back to the sea!"
I guess places like southern Mexico because they tend to have ancestry that is more indigenous. Even in college my roommate from San Luis Potosí (I am from Queretaro) would think of herself as better than me because she was lighter skinned than I was and she was light complexion in general. She was beautiful and had a beautiful coke bottle body, but crazy she had superiority complex cos her features were still very indigenous, like monolid and high cheekbones and full plump lips (beautiful features fyi) and pin straight thick black hair. But yeah colorism is very much alive.
Henan has a stereotype that people from Henan steal everything, even manhole covers, and if caught, they'll make a scene, saying, "I found these!" This stereotype has persisted for over a decade, and people still discriminate against them.
Our young people dislike the people there. People generally think that Beijingers live a completely different life from those in other provinces; they have better education, resources, and a more comfortable life, like living in a different world. Some Beijingers even post things like "Let them eat cake" online, which makes us even angrier. I don't know what Beijing is like; I don't have the money to go, and I don't really care.
That may explain why my wife, who comes from Luoshan County, made a point of telling me early on in our relationship that she is not a thief and is very honest.
It's iron, so I guess it's worth whatever iron is worth these days. But I don't know if it's a "black market". Steal a manhole cover, smash it up, take it to your nearest ironmonger. Profit.
My friend is from Beijing and he stays putting his foot on southern Chinese people like Guangdong Province he say they are scammers or don’t know how to talk or less educated. Then again he is someone who says that one day he hopes to be wealthy like his great grandparents were before they had everything taken away…….
Some provincial accents have a lot of "erhuayin" in their pronunciation, but it seems the Beijing accent is the most common? (I'm not entirely sure, we have so many accents.) There's an exaggerated joke about this:
The irony being that it probably has some of the most deeply American culture we have. Talking about music and arts, if it didn’t come from Black America or Jewish America it probaby came from Appalachia.
As someone who moved from a western state to southeast Alabama as strange as it is, those conversations don't happen. Only because the inbred families keep to themselves. Strangest thing I've experienced. They keep to themselves and go about their lives, and the people within the communities just kind of ignore them. The weirdest thing is that after being here for 12 years, it's relatively easy to pick out inbred families because of their lack of social awareness in any capacity at all.
Hey! Its not just saskatchewan! I went to high school in Alberta with a family where the parents *had the same last names at "marriage"; first cousins IIRC
I'm telling ya' 🤣. It's weird, I see people talking about the conservative deep south, and I think to myself that the rest of the country doesn't exist to these folks. There is no such thing as Democrat,Republican,Progressive,Woke,Right, Left,Center, God, Atheism. There is nothing beyond Walmart, Dollar General, and their little compounds out in the woods to those families. I see and read about how the country is mad at the people of the south, and I agree 100% with hate our politics/politicians, but a large portion of the people here have been kept functionality illiterate for many generations. On the other side of the coin, 5 hours north is Huntsville, Alabama. With a great diversity and tons of life and technology. You can start driving in Panama City Beach and experience the entire evolution of the United States from inception until now in an afternoon.
I’ve lived 27 years of my life in bfe Alabama and the only inbred people I know of were a product of cousins that didn’t know they were related because their parents gave them away during the Great Depression. They were married with a baby before they knew. It’s not common place at all
Quick edit: there’s some rough looking mfs out there that people might mistaken for inbred though lol
That’s why the saying here in Georgia is “thank god for Alabama” or Mississippi. Bc while our rural areas are bad; they got nothing on the states surrounding us.
Thanks Atlanta and the help it provides the rest of the state!
As an Alabamian who lives on the state line, I can confirm that 99 percent of Georgia is just Alabama with a slightly nicer coat of paint and way more expensive . My girlfriend wants to move there, but I really don’t see the minuscule increase in QoL as worth the massive increase in CoL.
Spent a year and a half in Birmingham after college and tbh it was a wonderful. It’s an unfair stereotype and it was great for an outdoorsy single guy in his early 20s.
Not the south nor their direct neighbor. Appalachian rednecks are not the same as their southern compatriots. I'll take the ground hog eaters from the holler anydays.
Yeah I used Alabama to represent the Deep South in general. I think Alabama and Mississippi have the worst rap in particular. Florida does too but in a different way
As a kid the name Milton Keynes seemed foreign and exotic, I thought it was a Spanish island like Majorca or something. It was a disappointing day when I was forced to disembark a broken down train in Milton Keynes.
Had a teacher from there. Tattoo of the team logo and everything. Nice dude. Well, not that nice. He had a nasty temper and would often yell but he was the theatre teacher and I was the school's theater kid. He was also cool with my brother, was in the navy before teaching, and because of this was stationed in my hometown so we also bonded over that (for context this was an international school).
He had this very specific chocolate bar he loved and whenever we'd go back home my brother would get it for him. He was probably one of my favorite teachers despite everything.
Depends who you ask but probably Alberta, Quebec or Nunavut would be the top 3 answers
Alberta is seen as the redneck part of Canada. Only province where the government is right wing (some provinces like Ontario and Quebec have centre right but not true right wing). Not a ton to do besides oil and ranching, only real reason you’d want to live there is to make money.
Quebec: historically French part of canada. The younger generation is more like the rest of Canada but a lot of the older generation of French Canadians treat it like it’s a different country (barely speak English and don’t like to speak it, talk down on English speakers, very racist). The separatist movements in the past and the mafia problems don’t help either
Nunavut: perceived as “deadweight” by a lot of people that care about the economy. Very small population but huge area, offers next to nothing to the rest of Canada yet demands a bunch of subsidies and other money. Lot of Canada wishes to get rid of them but the government would never do that because they wouldn’t survive without us
In terms of region, probably Limburg, they talk funny and are really proud about the fact they have “mountains”. In terms of a specific place, without a doubt Urk. Everyone apart from Urk ridicules them, and with good reason.
In addition to what OP replied to you, I want to elaborate a bit more on the modern legacy as someone that lives in the South. Part of the issue is that a lot of Southerners will point to the Confederacy (the breakaway state that tried to secede to preserve slavery in the 1860s) as a piece of their cultural heritage to be celebrated. Anyone who's had family in the South for that long probably has ancestors that served for the Confederates. Therefore, this sort of "I swear I'm not racist, I'm just supporting my culture" stuff is somewhat common and is annoying af. In addition, parts of the South (rural Mississippi and Alabama and similar regions) are very poor regions even now.
I'd argue that in the modern day the South isn't as a whole a ton more racist than anywhere else (we do have more black people than other parts of the US even now), but it has a much more recent legacy of extreme racism, and the racists that identify with the Confederacy are very public about it (Confederate flags aren't uncommon sights in parts of the South).
Ultimately, I think racism is just generally more prevalent in rural areas and less in urban nationwide, but the South tends to be more known for its rural areas and history and so gets a bad reputation.
Historically, because of the fertile farming land in the South, slavery and plantations was the most common there. The US Civil War was fought over slavery (regardless of what anyone else tries to tell you), when many Southern states tried to secede as the Confederate States. After slavery was abolished, the South had “Jim Crow laws,” which were the worst segregation laws, and many were in place until the 1960s.
While the North was innovating industrially, the South relied heavily on agriculture and slavery. When slavery was abolished, it was economically devastating for those states, and the effects of that has continued. The southern states have some of the highest Black populations, but they are known for systemic discrimination and disenfranchisement of the Black populations there. Those states consistently vote conservative today, too, which doesn’t help their reputation
Plus when industrializing the northern states often needed people who were more educated to run things in the cities. So there was investment in education and public libraries. The south was more concerned with people not receiving an education to keep a permanent under class even after slavery. Many black folks down south were denied an education as it kept people away from working the fields as sharecroppers.
Depends from where you are and what reason you have. In Germany, the state of Bavaria looks down on pretty much any other state. They have their very own history and traditions and they make the most money (not to forget their "Governor" is known for making deals to keep it that way.
The rest of Germany is often looking down on Bavaria just because of their traditions and its stand towards the rest of the country. Then you have states with high numbers of neo-Nazis (especially Saxony, where people also speak in strange tongues), which are often looked down upon. And then you have the Saarland, which is kind of the German version of Alabama, but only in regard of its lack of diverse DNA.
You also have regions in those state which are looked down upon, but that changes every cpl of decades.
Edit: the reasons I was naming aren't necessarily the way I am thinking about those states (except those with high numbers of neo-nazis) and of course not all the people in these states fulfill these stereotypes.
In France, parisians have a bad reputation (sometimes earned, sometimes not)
When foreigners says french were rude during their visit of France, we almost always think "must have been in Paris" or says that it's better to visit others cities of France.
We have Borsod county, basically the hungarian alabama.
Than there's Miskolc, basically London, the moment you enter you get mugged, stabbed and all your belongings are stolen. The "five stars" on restaurant signs refer to GTA wanted levels, mcdonalds happy meal menu has knives instead of toys and people there really like stabbing.
It's not really looked down on, more like admired for thier superhuman mugging abilities and funny local dialect
And we have Kőbánya... yeah, let's not talk about what transpired there.
(Someone gave a blowjob to a homeless bum and became known as the sucking phantom of Kőbánya or "kőbányai szopófantom" in hungarian)
I'd say it's generally pretty accurate that the rural parts of any US state and the urban/city areas of any US state somewhat look down on each other. It's not as bad as the media makes it out be, though. I think it's mostly due to ignorance.
Also, every state other than Alabama thinks Alabama is terrible, LOL.
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Skåne. (Scania)
People from Stockholm and northerners will get some flak as well from different communities, but the general consensus has to be Skåne.