They go so do you speak Swedish or like
oh so like you're pretty up north right like it must be very cold? Or like oh yeah
yeah I've been to Norway, I love it - it's next to Switzerland right? Like we're not Sweden we're not.
We are cold which is not true. I mean yes we are a bit distant at the beginning but I
always say if you make a German friend you have a friend for life. Like you have the warmest and
most trusted person. That we are all tall, blond , and beautiful and that we all dress the same. That
dressing the same part is very true. I don't know about the other ones. I mean I think everyone kind
of thinks my accent should be different. We're all like Super Mario. We sound like Super Mario.
Super Mario is an Italian character but American made by Japanese. It's like "it's a me, Mario"
About weed. Not everybody smokes weed. Not everybody tried weed - because of Amsterdam is the image.
I used to do yeah. When I was 19 and 20, not anymore. They always assume that I dance flamenco
and that's not true. I would say the only dancing is la Ferria de Abril in Andalucia. So that this
controversial situation between Walloon and Flemish. They'll say how you hate each other. I was like
honestly no. I hate nobody. You should go in Brussels or anywhere in Belgium for a festival and
you can see that just Belgium love each other because they love party, they love music they love
dancing. It's all about that. I think a stereotype that we get a lot that is that we're neutral
like all the time or otherwise from other french-speaking countries that we speak very
slow. I think it's true. That we're obsessed with soccer. I hear that a lot and we get intense. party
when it's soccer games but not too intense I think with respect, for most part. French people smell,
stink, and don't shower. People putting deodorant around on them because it's too lazy saying it's a
French shower which I thought that was really really bad. We shower we definitely shower. We have great
fragrance, we got great perfumes. For sure great brands. I hate the stereotypes because people go to
subway in Paris and then assume it stinks because of the French people and not because it's a subway.
Indeed it is flat. We have this famous singer Jacques Brel who sing a song about Belgium
and he said "le plat paye" it means the flat country and it's totally white.
It's raining most of the time but you know with the global warming, I can say that
Belgium is maybe the new Ibiza. About the boring part but so i just said it is the new Ibiza so you
know it's not boring at all! I think Belgian people are pretty amazing and funny and they love to party.
That's not true obviously. I don't know why everyone always says that. I think
we are really funny. Actually I had my best laughs in Germany maybe the sense of humor?
The kind of humor is different we like very sarcastic jokes like smart jokes. So don't give
me any kind of [ __ ] joke like we won't laugh. No simple humor, no superficial humor like it has
to be like a good joke. It has to go like under the skin and again it has to be smart somehow.
Yes we're expressive and we use a lot of our hands. This is the classic what do you want?
what what is it? You know what what the hell? and you'll see on the soccer games when uh we
do a foul and we go like this - no it wasn't me - you know it's like protecting
myself like pretending it's not. It's like if you cheat on your girlfriend
Everyone says that. That's what we're known for probably because we build everything I don't
know I think we built half of Canada Do you know any Portuguese construction workers? My dad
my cousins. A lot of my friends. So is that stereotype true? A little bit!
Cheap is not the right way. It's more equal. If we hang out with the girls and one person
buys a lot of wine cheese and all snacks. At the end of the evening or the next morning
the person who organizes it will say okay I will send you tikkie the next
day. So a tikkie is a money transfer it will split equally the bill and everybody pays
the correct amount. If you go on a date with that guy who pays the bill? We split.
Definitely not. Not all the Swiss people are rich.
Like I think this is the biggest misconception like about Switzerland. I mean I wish it was
true but it's not. I think it's because of the banks, the watches um I don't know. Everything
that's portrayed in media and movies and whatnot so maybe it gives that impression.
There's truth to that but it also has to do a lot with the climate
of Greece. We have siestas especially in the summer where everything kind of like shuts down between
you know 11 and 4 p.m but that really has to do with the weather, because it is really hot
at this time. It really drains your energy. Another perception about the laziness is the fact that we
like to enjoy life a little more perhaps than other cultures, meaning like going out more
spending time with friends having fun but I do have to say that you
know Greeks do actually work you know quite hard. What's missing is efficiency.
I would say mostly in the south of Spain people tend to be a little bit more lazy so then they
tend to like do more siesta. We really like to go clubbing
so we need to rest before we just go out the whole night until the next morning.
We don't. We like to think we do but when you only have four days of sunshine a year.
It's kind of hard to build the base. I don't know if you can see it on camera but it's actually fake
straight from a bottle. We're all going around with this nice kind of like cheetos kind of look
to us. Just layers, and layers, and layers of just like slimy fake tan just plowing it on. You know
that thing where jesus's face was on the cloth or whatever like that's literally like everyone's bed
sheets so yeah like especially when you kind of rock up like to someone's house and you're
kind of drunk and you wake up the next morning and you kind of peel yourself off the bed and
you're trying to sneak away and just like pretend that the night didn't happen and then you're like
okay i'm just leaving them a bit of a souvenir okay just look away.
We suppress a lot of our feelings. We're calm and collected, so we don't express that much feelings -
until we get drunk. We let go of something we let go of the calmness and the collected-ness.
And then that's why we love to travel we love to go abroad because then we can be
ourselves and we can let ourselves go. When they say that we're not friendly it means that we
have a hard time taking the first interaction. We do it while we're drunk or we have to get
to know you but then it's up to you to get to us first. We won't make the first move.
That's partly true. I think all generations don't speak English - my parents, my grandparents
like probably don't. Actually they don't. A lot of French people consider that like French is enough
and also it depends like how you learn it usually for movies and stuff we have
all the we don't use subtitles because everything's translated in French.
Sometimes from Quebec or from France so we're not used to
watch shows or movies with subtitles but like younger generation usually I think
what shows in original version with subtitles. So like they're getting better at languages
So we speak Spanish - we don't speak Spanish. We speak Portuguese.
I have never worn a Lederhosen or dindl and I've never been to the Oktoberfest.
so no. Whenever I meet someone and I'm like telling them I'm from Switzerland, they often say oh so
do you speak Swedish? or like you're pretty up north right? Like it must be very cold or like
oh yeah - yeah I've been to Norway. I love it it's next to Switzerland right? Like
we're not Sweden we're not! Nudity. We Swedes have been known for nudity for a long time, that
nudity is a big part of the society. It was during the 60s and 70s but it is not anymore.
There's not that many nude beaches. People don't undress that easy if they're not drunk. Only when
they hear Spanish for them, Spanish is like South America and we are all Latin and we all like
reggaeton and they don't care if we are Colombian, Peru, Spain like everything is the same for them.
Even once I heard someone saying that Spain was South Mexico so yeah. So one stereotype that is
not true is actually the "Oppa" stereotype. "Oppa" is like an exclamation that we basically use or
you know when something is happening when we're surprised or we want to sit down after like a long
time. They say "Oppa". The way it's been commercialized here in North America is like you know we go out
we dance and we stay up all the time we break plates - and in the Greek restaurants when they
bring you this dish it's called saganaki. They light it up on fire and then the waiter goes Oppa!
If they do that in Greece they'll probably laugh at them. French people used to have a lot of
jokes about Belgian people saying that we were stupid. We're a little bit the blonde girl it's
something nice to say oh I have a Belgian friend and he's so cool so funny so I think now version
starts to be pretty cool you know in the French cinema. We're painted as playboys. We want to look
like playboys. I think a lot of italians are not playboys. My brother he paints himself as
a playboy but always had two girlfriends all his life loyal I never remember him
single but you know he's he's loyal - well a lot of us are loyal. I think the stereotype is like
we all sound like oh top of the morning to ya! How's it going? and sweet Jesus would you look!
When you know there's obviously different dialects and different ways of speaking in most places but
yeah that's kind of a big one people tell me I don't sound irish, and I'm like that's
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