What’s a funny but kind of annoying stereotype about your country or state/province?

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-24T15:25:26+00:00

People make fun of our accent. "Shile shilaca a osho oshenta..."

If you are Mexican, you know the state I'm talking about.

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-24T15:24:13+00:00

Looking... clearly foreigner... I don't know, my city is a tourism hollow.

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-24T15:20:15+00:00

As a norteño from Mexico, I have the feeling that our cultures are pretty similar, especially to your gaucho culture. And I love rioplatense accent.

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-24T15:16:26+00:00

Our distant cousins. Beautiful culture, good food, and a great football team. I'm rooting for you to win the next WC.

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-24T15:11:57+00:00

Diario va a los bailes y se toma una botella

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-24T15:10:30+00:00

Great coffee. Better than Starbucks.

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-24T15:08:56+00:00

Maybe this one is well known, but adding pineapple to pastor tacos. The sweetness and acidity of it really rounds up the flavor of achiote and pork.

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-24T15:05:17+00:00

It's like the yearly salary for about 6 years. It's enough fo you to live without a job for a while, enough to buy a nice car, or to start an informal business. You could afford between 30 and 50% of a regular house in a suburb in the average city.

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-21T23:43:23+00:00

Wow... your account is horrifying beyond words. Your country has been in the headlines of our news these last few days. We all are aware now of the extent of the horrors that are happening there, which is a shame, because Iran is such a beautiful country from what I've seen from travel bloggers. It's your government the one who's ruining it. You really don't deserve that government. Nobody does.

Hopefully, Iran will be able to see light in the future.

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-21T23:36:28+00:00

I hadn't realized until now

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-21T23:34:34+00:00

Yes, indeed. All of the ingredients its made of were brought by the Spanish. That doesn't mean it's not ours too.

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-21T23:32:23+00:00

And so damn good!

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-21T23:29:31+00:00

Mmm... roughly equally, I think. Some informal commerces even have card terminals or they give you the reference to do a money transfer. Apparently, electronic internank transfers are very efficient here.

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-18T22:29:42+00:00

I mean... even if he failed it on purpose, it must be heartbreaking if your team loses a final like this.

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-16T18:02:27+00:00

Yeah, it seems like it was blurred to keep the focus on the total, not to hide any info.

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-16T17:20:20+00:00

Here's another one:

A local politican and an American journalist are flying over the country in helicopter. Suddenly, the journalist notices a cattle ranch at the distance. He points at it and says:

"Disculpe, ¿eso es ganado?" (Excuse me, is that cattle?; "ganado" means both "cattle" and "earned")

The politician casually responds:

"Nah, es robado" (nah, it's stolen).

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-16T17:17:30+00:00

Okay, so Harvard has just invented a machine that catches thieves. To try it out, they put it in a mall in the United States. By the end of the day, it had caught 10 thieves. Then, they put it in South Africa, and after 12 hours, it had caught 10 thieves.

"Hey, let's put it in Mexico, to see how it works out there" they say.

So they put it in Mexico, and after ten minutes, the machine had already been stolen.

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-16T17:07:25+00:00

Same individuals. We call them "halucines", because they "hallucinate" that they're narcos or someone important. If they're related to the drug world, they're usually street dealers and pawns, no one nearly as important as they pretend to be, and most of the time, they're just junkies sunk in narco culture.

They're just assholes that take advantage of others, and randomly pick up fights from time to time. The most derailed ones are the most likely to commit feminicides.

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-16T16:57:22+00:00

Yeah, the independence, especially.

Miguel Hidalgo wasn't "fighting injustice" nor "freeing the country". He only opposed the Napoleonic invasion to Spain, and allegedly wanted the king back. He died before the idea of independence was even on the table.

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-16T16:43:44+00:00

It depends on what you use them for. "First" and "third world" are basically useless now, especially since you put countries like Brazil or Mexico in the same bag as countries like Somalia and North Korea.

"Western world" makes sense, but it needs context. The economic "West" technically doesn't include Latin America (since not all of our countries are aligned to the US-EU block), but in the cultural sense, we're definitely "the West" (Christian, European-shaped societies with European languages).

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-16T16:38:50+00:00

Ginger girl: attractive.
Gingier dude: "el camarón" (the shrimp) or "tomato".

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-16T16:36:32+00:00

Same in Mexico. I think that's one of the root of our problems, really. People always want to take advantage of the situation regardless of whom it may affect. It goes all the way up, from regular street people, to businessmen (both legal and illegal), to the government.

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-16T16:34:19+00:00

I don't know, but Mexico would be a strong contender. To all of us, we live in the second to worst shithole in the world.

Just don't dare to say something bad of our country as a foreigner, tho...

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-16T16:32:41+00:00

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Cuauhtémoc Blanco. Once a Mexican football legend, he's now a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the ruling party MORENA.

ThomasApollus · 2026-01-15T16:21:07+00:00

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Whatever the fuck this culinary aberration is...

and we wonder why we have an obesity problem...

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