Mix thick armour and high speed together and you get a fuel hungry battleship. And it doesn't help if you are Mussolini (and no, he didn't managed to make the trains run on time, it was just fascist propaganda).
Except the fact that she's Italian... and, while it's a typical food in some determined areas, Italians very seldomly eat pasta with meatballs.
If you want to stereotype, do it good. Don't use false stereotypes to boot.
Pretty sure there is no such thing as "false" stereotypes, as stereotypes are either exaggerated or just plain wrong. Besides, I also once thought pasta with meatballs is standard meal for Italian until a friend who went to Italy told me about it.
Pretty sure there is no such thing as "false" stereotypes, as stereotypes are either exaggerated or just plain wrong. Besides, I also once thought pasta with meatballs is standard meal for Italian until a friend who went to Italy told me about it.
That's precisely what I was talking about; lots of people think that in Italy pasta with meatballs is eaten really often, while it's typical of only some regions, and it's not eaten that much.
But it's not use; most of the times there's an Italian with pasta, that pasta will be with meatballs.
It may not be "false", strictly speaking, but it sure is misleading.
That's precisely what I was talking about; lots of people think that in Italy pasta with meatballs is eaten really often, while it's typical of only some regions, and it's not eaten that much.
But it's not use; most of the times there's an Italian with pasta, that pasta will be with meatballs.
It may not be "false", strictly speaking, but it sure is misleading.
Oh you are assuming the artist actually knows about it. But, ya, sometimes its quite frustrating that people are using misleading stereotypes.
Historynerd said: That's precisely what I was talking about; lots of people think that in Italy pasta with meatballs is eaten really often, while it's typical of only some regions, and it's not eaten that much.
But it's not use; most of the times there's an Italian with pasta, that pasta will be with meatballs.
It may not be "false", strictly speaking, but it sure is misleading.
But that's just what stereotypes are. I don't really get what you're getting so worked up about. If I had a quarter every time someone assumed I couldn't drive or was good at math for being asian, or assumed I ate Rice all the time, I wouldn't be working.
But that's just what stereotypes are. I don't really get what you're getting so worked up about. If I had a quarter every time someone assumed I couldn't drive or was good at math for being asian, or assumed I ate Rice all the time, I wouldn't be working.
I'm not getting worked up; I'm just shaking my head sadly, that's it.
But that's just what stereotypes are. I don't really get what you're getting so worked up about. If I had a quarter every time someone assumed I couldn't drive or was good at math for being asian, or assumed I ate Rice all the time, I wouldn't be working.
To be honest, I'm not getting worked up, as I'm not mad or something; I'm just... disappointed? These king od things make me more sad than angry. It's just ignorance respawning continuously.
To be honest, I'm not getting worked up, as I'm not mad or something; I'm just... disappointed? These king od things make me more sad than angry. It's just ignorance respawning continuously.
I think you're just looking too hard into this. Sometimes stereotypes aren't always used with malice, usually it just come from honest ignorance. Of course I'm not saying every Italians are pasta loving and pizza eating people but when the majority you see in media or even in real life, everywhere you go you see people using real italian pizza, pasta and all that junk, you tend to associate the group with it.
It's hard to make someone of a certain group distinguishable if you don't use somesort of generalization. For example, how do the Japanese tell if someone is from the west? Give them blonde hair, despite the fact that majority of the people have black and brown. How do you tell the person is of chinese culture? Give them a china dress.
It's nothing negative. It's just ways to tell certain groups apart.
I think you're just looking too hard into this. Sometimes stereotypes aren't always used with malice, usually it just come from honest ignorance. Of course I'm not saying every Italians are pasta loving and pizza eating people but when the majority you see in media or even in real life, everywhere you go you see people using real italian pizza, pasta and all that junk, you tend to associate the group with it.
You should look at all the SJW in Tumblr talking about things like cultural appropriation :D
I stopped being offended by stereotypes myself since I was a already a kid. If anything I actually became jealous of the more known races out there. I'm freaking Thai, do you know how many people I met (that aren't Thai themselves obviously) that know a blasted thing about my country? My country barely has any stereotypes and isn't really shown in mass media for people to even come up with jokes in the first place.
I normally only get asked if I'm chinese or Japanese(sometimes Korean). At this point, I fully welcome if some Hollywood movie were to give my people some weird stereotype (All stereotypes have a sense of truth to them) that would actually make other races remember my people. Throw me a freaking bone here.
Let's take G-gundam for example, that anime was ENTIRELY based on stereotypes and was funny as hell. But then I was like "Where the fuck is my Thai gundam and pilot!? Represent my country yo!". Even Canada and Mexico got their own Pilot and Gundam and got half an episode dedicated to them.
I stopped being offended by stereotypes myself since I was a already a kid. If anything I actually became jealous of the more known races out there. I'm freaking Thai, do you know how many people I met (that aren't Thai themselves obviously) that know a blasted thing about my country? My country barely has any stereotypes and isn't really shown in mass media for people to even come up with jokes in the first place.
I normally only get asked if I'm chinese or Japanese(sometimes Korean). At this point, I fully welcome if some Hollywood movie were to give my people some weird stereotype (All stereotypes have a sense of truth to them) that would actually make other races remember my people. Throw me a freaking bone here.
Let's take G-gundam for example, that anime was ENTIRELY based on stereotypes and was funny as hell. But then I was like "Where the fuck is my Thai gundam and pilot!? Represent my country yo!". Even Canada and Mexico got their own Pilot and Gundam and got half an episode dedicated to them.
You're right, that anime was really plenty of stereotypes, but I enjoyed it too; it didn't disturb me the fact that the Italian pilot was a crazed Mafioso.
Anyway, perhaps you're all right, and I'm overreacting. It's just... the details that kinda bother me.
For example, I used to watch Hetalia (then I kind of lost track), and I liked it; I laughed at Italy's portrayal, and it didn't bother me in the least when the pasta began to be thrown around pretty much always. One of the reasons that it didn't was that the pasta was without meatballs.
Perhaps I'm just mounting a wild goose chase, but it's those little things that get me... piqued. I don't know how to explain myself better.
I stopped being offended by stereotypes myself since I was a already a kid. If anything I actually became jealous of the more known races out there. I'm freaking Thai, do you know how many people I met (that aren't Thai themselves obviously) that know a blasted thing about my country? My country barely has any stereotypes and isn't really shown in mass media for people to even come up with jokes in the first place.
I normally only get asked if I'm chinese or Japanese(sometimes Korean). At this point, I fully welcome if some Hollywood movie were to give my people some weird stereotype (All stereotypes have a sense of truth to them) that would actually make other races remember my people. Throw me a freaking bone here.
Let's take G-gundam for example, that anime was ENTIRELY based on stereotypes and was funny as hell. But then I was like "Where the fuck is my Thai gundam and pilot!? Represent my country yo!". Even Canada and Mexico got their own Pilot and Gundam and got half an episode dedicated to them.
I stopped being offended by stereotypes myself since I was a already a kid. If anything I actually became jealous of the more known races out there. I'm freaking Thai, do you know how many people I met (that aren't Thai themselves obviously) that know a blasted thing about my country? My country barely has any stereotypes and isn't really shown in mass media for people to even come up with jokes in the first place.
I normally only get asked if I'm chinese or Japanese(sometimes Korean). At this point, I fully welcome if some Hollywood movie were to give my people some weird stereotype (All stereotypes have a sense of truth to them) that would actually make other races remember my people. Throw me a freaking bone here.
Let's take G-gundam for example, that anime was ENTIRELY based on stereotypes and was funny as hell. But then I was like "Where the fuck is my Thai gundam and pilot!? Represent my country yo!". Even Canada and Mexico got their own Pilot and Gundam and got half an episode dedicated to them.
You mean no one talks about how your country is the land of traps?
