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East European stereotype

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pdanev

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This is awesome! :lol:

Got it from a friend via email. Most apply to former soviet block people, but I think most east europen guys will find it funny as well. There are some polish, serbian and hungarian ppl around here, so I thought I'd post it. :D

1.You had to share a room until you were 21.
2.Everything you eat is savored in garlic and onions.
3.You are standing next to the two largest suitcases at the airport.
4.You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think its normal.
5.All your children have nick names, which sound nowhere close to their
real names.
6.You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
7.Your mom tells you you're too skinny even though your 30 pounds
overweight. .
8.Your house is full of medicine from your old country and it's probably
all illegal here.
9.You and your friends have ever been kicked out of a restaurant or
recreational park for being too loud or rowdy.
10.You dont know how to use a dishwasher b/c u are the dishwasher.
11.You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
12.You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
13.Your dad ever butchered a pig or lamb.
14.You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
15.If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've
eaten, even if it's midnight.
16.Your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign countries have
improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of their
lungs when making foreign calls.
17. It's "normal" if your wedding has 600 people.
18.Your 15 year old sister can out-drink any American guy.
19.You drive a nicer car than your parents.
20.Your dad carries around enough money to buy a car.
21.You have all brand new appliances in your kitchen but your mom cooks in
the basement with the stove from your old house.
22.Your parents have gone on vacation ONCE and it was to your home country.
23.You base your whole life on the fortune in your coffee cup
24.Your parents still prefer to buy cassettes instead of CDs.

25.You're actually nodding and laughing at most of these things
26.You 're a proud Eastern European and pass this on to your European
friends..
27. your non-english speaking grandmother gives a shocked looked when you
say 'pizza'
28. you wear french connection and other designer clothing when going to
work out
29. you carry liquor back here from your country in plastic sprite bottles
under tons of clothing in the suitcase
30. You have 17 consonants and 2 vowels in your last name
 
4.You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think its normal.
5.All your children have nick names, which sound nowhere close to their
real names.
6.You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
20.Your dad carries around enough money to buy a car.
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I dont get these :|
 
4 - That's not typciall, but some people tend to arrive late, or simply arrive without appointments etc.
5 - It's very common in our countries to have nicknames, most are formed based on either some work you do, or on something stupid that you did at uni, or if you like some weird stuff (e.g. techz - the fireman, carrot jensked etc, so really no relation to names, can't really explain it)
6 - Meetings, dinners, etc, are always very long in eastern europe. It's not like the modern western socity, "hi, we arrived, lets eat, goodbye". Simple dinner could start at 6-7pm, and you end up going home usually around 2-3-4am. And that's not even special occassion. And its just some weird thing, that whenever we leave, we end up talking at the door for hours in extreme cases, just because there is always a lot to talk about etc, also eastern habit. :)
20 - We never use credit/debit cards, everything in our countries is cash, lots of cash (especially for new rich guys, and show offs). 1, infrastructure wise, cards arent that easy to use everywhere 2, people dont have them 3, people dont trust them 4, people never use them, even if they have credit/debit cards. Everything is handled on spot, with cash, as simple as that. And also, since usually the head of the family, especially in money related issues is the father => "Your dad carries around enough money to buy a car". ;)
 
^ For people that are from East Europe, or have been there etc, yes. :)
 
I think it's too long since I've been there :|
 
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha :lol:
omg, great find, I find that almost all the stuff applies to myself and my family ... proudly Romanian and eastern European .... living in Canada rihgt now though, and becoming canadian citizen this year too ...

:cheers: cheers man

PS: yes, I can outdrink you all and I'm not even drinking legal. :unsure:
 
A lot of these things can apply to anyone from any background. I'm Filipino and nicknames are hugely popular among Filipinos and it's not considered offensive in the slightest sense to be late for a party.

I've seen a list like this for Asians, but it's a lot more accurate and hilarious.
 
Re: East European stereotype

pdanev said:
6.You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
11.You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
12.You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
16.Your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign countries have
improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of their
lungs when making foreign calls.
17. It's "normal" if your wedding has 600 people.
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Whoa, those all apply, and I'm not even from eastern Europe! :lol:

# 16 is something only my dad does, but he does it for every phone call, not just the overseas ones! :p
 
Re: East European stereotype

pdanev said:
6.You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
11.You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
12.You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
16.Your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign countries have
improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of their
lungs when making foreign calls.
17. It's "normal" if your wedding has 600 people.
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Also very Irish things to do !!! :lol:
 
bwahahaha :lol:

love this one if I am right about the connection to pizda? :thumbsup: which for non-slavic members translates roughly to c%nt

27. your non-english speaking grandmother gives a shocked looked when you
say 'pizza'
 
vladmitu said:
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha :lol:
omg, great find, I find that almost all the stuff applies to myself and my family ... proudly Romanian and eastern European .... living in Canada rihgt now though, and becoming canadian citizen this year too ...

:cheers: cheers man

PS: yes, I can outdrink you all and I'm not even drinking legal. :unsure:
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You would be no match for me... :beer:
 
Damn, I don't know any Eastern Europeans so I didn't find it funny either. :(
 
Pretty much all of these apply to me as well... me being Persian. It's weird, but you can pretty much divide the world into two pieces: east and west.
 
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