Where are you from and what is a stereotypical characteristic of people from your area?

Question

What country, state, city, region are you from and what do people generally think of people from your area? Are people's beliefs true or just misconceptions?

Answer 1

I am from Mississippi. Everyone thinks we're uneducated and backwards. I've heard everything from "Do you have indoor plumbing?" to "I didn't know there were any black people left in Mississippi." There's also the racist stereotype. Some people believe there is a klansman on every corner and a crossburning every night.

These are all bogus. I consider myself well educated. However with only a master's degree, I am not in the top 10 of my graduating class (vs. the PhD's, MD's, & JD's). I have never seen a crossburning in person, only on the history channel. Finally, if I had a nickel for everytime some said, "you don't sound like you're from Mississippi", I would be a rich man.

Answer 2

I am from Southern California... people in other states think I must be a surfer and I must live next door to a movie star. Neither of those things are true.

Answer 3

Panama.
Loud, messy.
I don't think stereotyoes are true, but you can still find a few individuasl that well make stereotypes a true fact.

Answer 4

Nashville

Rednecks and Country Music fans

I am neither but I cannot deny that Tennessee and Nashville are not filled with them

Answer 5

What are true beliefs? The biggest misconception is religion. God is not what church makes "Him" out to be. God is not emotional, not revengeful. God is not like a human being that He punishes others, especially His children. God is not like some humans that He needs to be loved and believed first in order for Him to protect and save us when we are in trouble. If God is so divine, He will protect and be there for us NO MATTER WHAT! We have human parents, friends, husbands, and wives who unconditionally love and be there for their children, friends, wives, and husbands despite the fact that their counterparts do not believe or love them. God must be more loving than these humans. Churches want us to believe the God they have created or we won't be saved so that they control and have power over us. Pay close attention to the descriptions of God by the churches and one will realize how ungodly, unholy, and undivine humans have made Him to be. God should be divine and not humanlike that He gets mad and murders millions of His own children.

Humans have all these supposely messages and predictions from God. But if God is all so mighty and able to see into the eternity, wouldn't He have foreseen and predicted all that is currently happening in the world? So He expected and wanted all the events which happened, are happening, and will happen to happen. Then, the churches should not be stating anything is against God's will because nothing is against God's will. He had already forsaw and predicted and expected the world to progress like it has today. He expected that humans will make scientific and technological progresses and breakthroughs. In addition, do churches know for certain that God does not want humans to be more independent and be more like Him? Why are the churches insisting that God wants us to be weaklings and remain naive and lack of knowledge? I think churches want to have and control all the knowledges and powers. They desire control and power over every details of our lives. They are simply being humans. When churches state that the scientific community is playing God, do they ever think that maybe God wants us to play God. Maybe He wants us to grow up and be as knowledgeable and capable just like Him. Maybe He wishes that humans can become more independent and not always have to ask Him to perform miracles. But that we ourselves have the ability to perform miracles. If God is so divine, why would He have anything against humans becoming more independent and knowledgeable? He has nothing to lose. The only ones with something to lose are the churches.

Churches have long stated that they are messengers of God. However, it seems that all the messages they have brought since the earliest day have been wrong. They did not believe that different races, ethnicities, religions and sexes should be given equal status on this planet, they did not know the Earth revolves around the Sun, they did not know the Earth is round. Wouldn't God have told them all these already? Ideologies and beliefs from churches are fabricated by men. Examine closely the beliefs of the churches and one will realize how narrow minded they are. No tolerance what so ever. Is this our divine God? So intolerant and unforgiven? Is the almighty and divine God suppose to be a cross handing on a wall? Why do churches create all these icons to symbolize God? And why do people believe in them so much? If there is a powerful Creator of this infinitely enormous Universe, I strongly think that he is very open minded and desires us to think, experiment, and explore freely the vast potentials that exist in this world. He would not see progress in this world as a threat or is against His will.

If God created humans to be like Him, then He must have expected and wanted us to act like Him. I believe God wants us to make all of the scientific and technological progresses and breakthroughs. I mean when the Know-It-All Almighty God created us, He must have known what we are going to be like. Nothing we do should be surprising to Him if He is God. He sees into the eternity, right? Or does He have no idea how humans will behave when He created us? Is God just like some of us that He creates and does things without planning and without knowing the consequences? Does He make mistakes too? Does He have regrets and wishes He can turn back time to erase His mistakes? Does the Creator Himself do things by trial and error too? Thinking about all these questions, make me wonder if humans created God. Maybe God is really a positive force within ourselves. He is the unlimited potential within all human beings. We call upon Him especially when we are in desperate situations, when we are sad, when we are in a crisis, when we have a need or a wish, and when we feel like dying and hopeless. We use God to understand and describe all the struggles both around us and within ourselves. God is a powerful energy within ourselves. We should not need icons created by religions to discover this force. This force is not just within us, but it also exists aound us as a balance. It balances good against evil, hope against hopeless. It is mother nature with cycles of fortunes and misfortunes. We turn to churches and religions to understand these cycles and forces. We let religions become the authority and handed our own innate powers to the churches. We became followers and puppets. And churches have created stories to reinforce the idea that we need to be their followers; otherwise, we will be condemned. I believe people will not be condemned because they are not religious and don't believe in churches. As a matter of fact, I believe people will become free. They will have freedom and more control over their own lives. Humans condemn humans, the divine "God" does not condemn His own children because It is a POSITIVE force.

Answer 6

tri-state area. the stereo type is that everythings ghettos and crazy and dirty. not completly true......

Answer 7

the South..."how can you be from Arkansas-you are wearing shoes?!"