most ppl outside of texas think texans are freaky ppl who have like farms and everything and laugh at us (texans) when we go 2 like another state cause of our ""texan accent""? im from houston and barely any1 has farms....maybe like horses...but definitly no pigs or chickens or stuff like that....unless ur in high skool and u r in FFA....but otherwise barely any of us (texans) have farms...but i have to admit that we do say yall ALOT...but thats a normal texan!!!
2006-08-02 20:16:51 · 10 answers · asked by Blair 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
most ppl outside egypt think we ride on camels, live in tents and wear patches of bright colors and slippers all the time. its normal, people stereotype! its all because of hollywood!
ps. i wear normal clothes, jeans, tanks, gstrings even! and i'm an egyptian, i have a normal house with an elevator a tv a computer a laptop an ipod! it really is just movies.lol
2006-08-02 20:23:04 · answer #1 · answered by Sue 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow, I'm here in Harris County myself...
I said once in Orlando that I thought it was cool that when one Texan says to another Texan "over yonder" that it seems almost like telepathy that the other Texan knows exactly what the other one is talking about!!! Then this uptight priss said "You really say that???" And I said, well informally, to our friends and stuff, yes of course, it's like a joke most of the time. She looked disgusted, but heck she is from Florida, at least we in Texas have figured out how to count votes!!! (J/K to all non-bigoted Floridians!)
Here in Clear Lake we have cattle grazing near a retention pond behind Home Depot so there are some cliches. But we aren't backward and we don't ride horses to work or any of that BS, if we did the rest of the country would be totally jealous of us missing out on the high gas prices. There is so much money and political power and largesse in Texas that if someone wants to trash us then they can just wait til our next (hopefully sane) Texan president is elected because it WILL happen. They can patronize our corporations every day they spend any money. They envy our beautiful beaches and wilderness.
I went to NYC and everything I was asked had to do with NASA or the Galveston hurricane. When I talked about how I live on a full fifth of an acre in an average neighborhood people were thunderstruck by the fact that my husband mows the lawn for over an hour...Houston rules!!!! Not being able to walk down a street without choking on diesel, living in a shoebox apartment smaller than my dorm room in college, why would I worry about what these people think if they are worried about the very farms that feed them? They live in their own forms of craziness I'd say are about equal to our own.
They aren't trashing us as the rednecks anyway, not that I can tell. They save that for Arkansas and stuff where they can make disgusting inbred jokes. While I am proud of my state, I would never really hate on any group of people based on where they live unless they made derisive comments about my state's culture.
2006-08-03 03:56:08 · answer #2 · answered by Flowergirrl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you get outside of Houston you will see that we are huge in the farming and ranching business. The King Ranch is larger than the state of Rhode Island.
We don't have accents. Only people from Minnesota and Michigan have accents. And Cajuns, when they're really angry.
2006-08-03 05:51:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love it! I am from San Antonio, well a small town called Bandera, and yes they all think I had cows and a horse and thought i was gunna have to sell them before moving to california, go figure, ya'll have a good night!
2006-08-03 03:22:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As well as the other answers, yes it's all because of movies.
But we say y'all, other states say, you guys. That is even when there are girls around. Ex.- Do you guys want to go to the mall?
I sure would rather say y'all .
2006-08-03 03:33:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does everyone talk like Paul Wall?
2006-08-03 03:21:58 · answer #6 · answered by juju 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why people have same conception about people in India and crib Call Centre jobs being outsourced.
Simple people are people and they will remain people. :D
2006-08-03 03:23:06 · answer #7 · answered by strange_raga 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a stereotype that is portrayed in western movies.
2006-08-03 03:22:00 · answer #8 · answered by T4Toyin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
unfortunately, media and movies contribute a lot to this kind of stereotyping and then u see people becoming what they see on tv..
2006-08-03 03:22:11 · answer #9 · answered by Lady D 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm from nashville so people alway baffle that i don't have a cowboy hat on or wear boots or...GASP...don't like country music...
2006-08-03 03:23:53 · answer #10 · answered by lighting goddess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋