stereotypes

This Tumblr thread employs an American Gothic style of writing to highlight stereotypes --- imagined and potentially accurate --- for different places in American. The resulting descriptions are vivid and unsettling and might just chill you to the bone. It's almost like the whole place is cursed. 

Ahead of the big Super Bowl matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers, Mohawk Writer Vincent Schilling, seeks to explain the impact of the KC Chiefs on offensive stereotypes concerning Native Americans and Indigenous people. Schilling's thoughts are definitely making a wave across Twitter.

Someone on AskReddit asked for people to share the most noticeable, dead giveaways that someone is definitely Australian. If you take a solid look at these and note them for future reference, you might be able to pick an Aussie out of a crowd in the future with no trouble at all. 

Someone on AskReddit asked for people to step up and share what kinds of stereotypes/historical facts their countries had a knack for getting roasted over. Sucks to have someone label you based off of where you're from, before you've even had a chance to open your mouth. 

We're as surprised as you are. You wouldn't think a topic as dry as typesetting and fonts would actually be interesting, but since using some sort of a keyboard is something almost all of us do every single day, the history and language behind it is actually really interesting. The internet is host to many intriguing discussions on language, like this tumblr post about figures of speech, or this thread on translation. Or for some straight up language wins and fails, here are some uses and misuses of the english language.

If you didn't grow up with garbage disposals and cheez wiz, you might also think that they aren't real. Also paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for education. Here are some things people were dumbfounded to discover actually do exist in the US of A. For the other way around, here are some culture shocked Americans describing sharing things they didn't realize were so American.

This is f**king glorious. 

THIS. A war veteran's awesome post went viral for it's brutal effectiveness at calling out all the negative behavior that is stereotyping people. 

Holy crap, a facebook comments section that approaches the topic of race with tact, humor, and good vibes? It's a modern day unicorn! In a similarly constructive vein, here's a war veteran's insightful post about negative stereotyping.

This war veteran's social media post calls people out for negative stereotyping in the best way possible. A heroic move on his part indeed. And of course, thank you for your service, Sir. 

It's not just the students that are busy driving teachers crazy again this time of year. You very likely encountered one of these parenting styles while out in the wild, yourself. 

Too far, or hilariously on point? You be the judge. 

What drink you order might say a lot about you. Or it might not. Either way, this is what bartenders think of you.

This guy is DEFINITELY not a cop. We suggest some hardcore beer to smoke.