African. Think about that for a second. What popped into your mind? I can bet you that 99.99% won't think of a white person. Its true, try it yourself with your friends.

I am African, not European, not American. The "weird" thing is that I'm white. I'm a mix of British and Boer. My family is African, and we consider ourselves African, its our home. My dad's side has been in Africa since the 1680s.

However, many don't see me as African. Most assume that I'm American, until I mutter a sentence, then, because of my accent, I'm suddenly English. It annoys me so much, especially when I say I'm African and they don't believe me.

How about you? Is there any stereotypes that affect you and hate?

Are you by chance from South Africa? I've met at least two people from South Africa that were both white.

Kinda, my dad's ancestors fled in the Boer Migration after the British took over. Once the British took over the Free states, they fled to Zimbabwe, where they remained until Mugabe began his anti-white regime, so we're in Kenya now, well, I'm in America, my family is in Kenya.

Plenty of stereotypes to do with women I suppose. It's stopped affecting me now though - now I just think less of the ignorant person saying them instead of getting personally offended.

Being of Hispanic descent and living in America, there's quite a few.

Why aren't you in the kitchen?

Oh let's see this will not be easy.
1: Everyone assuming all American's are overwieght war loving so-n-so's.
2: Everyone thnking Christians are push-overs with bibles in hand waiting for the end of days and always forgiving (I'm sure as hell not, there's plenty of time to be with my creator when I'm dead. While alive I got other things to take care of and as for being forgiving and following the good book----I don't follow all of it's teachings specially the "Turn the other cheek" crap. Hit me once and see where it leads...here's a hint---it won't end well).
I'm sorry if this raises a stink but these are the stereotypes that affect me.

I only look like a hippie, but I'm really a long haired red neck....and I'm not bothered with any stereotype that goes along with it.
In addition, I try really hard not to play on other stereotypes. [edit] Racial ones anyway.

As a white male loner I've been suspected of being a serial killer [in training] or among other things a psychopath at times. On one hand it does mean that many people leave me alone which suits me just fine but does become on occasion a source of inconvenience at times or even annoyance. Still it could be worse I suppose given how much worse others have it with their particular stigma whatever that might be given that mine at least offers me some solitude.

Well when I hear african I think of the race. Your african nationaly but racially, nope.


Im Welsh, which just results in sheep jokes with no actual link aside from, we have lots of sheep here.

I've never been terribly affected by stereotypes. The only thing I can think of is recieving a few insults online for speaking the King's English, I didn't really feel insulted. Like I said it doesn't affect me much.

I'd just like to point out that as far as I'm concerned you're all white, you're all male and you all speak with the same 21 year old American accent. Because I have absolutely no way of distinguishing you otherwise. How's that for a stereotype?

Stereotypes?

White male - tends to classify me as the majority / power-holder (at least in the U.S.)
Bisixual - oh this one is fun... lots of stereotypes here, depending on who you ask.
Furry (and a fox at that) - pretty much the same as the stereotypes for bisixuals, except more fuzzy. Weird and possibly mentally unsound.
Wears glasses (and has a visual impairment) - smart / brainy (not all stereotypes are negative, remember).

Huh..I thought I was the only person who did this..

I'm a ginger. I think the only stereotype that goes along with that is anger issues. But nope, I control my anger quite well. Especially at high levels. That's where I prefer it.

Stereotypes- Norwegian/Scandinavian
=Rubbish most of it
Gay = Well... Needs no explaination.

Aside from my mental eccentricity, I'm really nothing 'stereotypable' I'm a boring white American male. You could say there's plenty of American stereotype jokes, but I just play along with those. But it does get a little hurtful when a foreigner actually assumes of me that 'American=/=Culturally ignorant'

Dark skinned - People think I'm either an Arab, Indian, Hispanic, native American, and in one case south Italian (I don't know either...) Truth is I'm from LA. Though I'm of Kurdish, Persian, and Turkish descent (mainly that is, there are quite a few nations mixed in my genes.)

Gamer - People assume I'm a nerd, whereas I know for a fact that I'm far from intelligent. (This one only goes for people on the internet though.)

Gym goer - People think I'm a tool that picks fights and is mean in general. I haven't been in a fight for months (and even then, I wasn't the one who started it) and I'm normally pretty friendly.

You'd be surprised how many people actually know about the large white population in South Africa. I always get "oh you're South African?" when I mention that I was born in Afirca. My parents were missionaries however, and I was infact born in Kenya (some coincidence eh?). Lived in Kenya and Uganda for about 10 years before coming stateside for schooling.

I don't suppose you've ever heard of Matapato, have you? Probably not, it's a little place and kind of far from Nairobi. Just like Karamoja in Uganda.

Nobody has ever really questioned it though. I mean how bad could it be? Do they call you an outright liar when you mention it?

every place i've been i've been accused of smoking pot, or looking like a "pot head" know idea why. i don't smoke pot, and i wear jeans and plain t-shirts, the only thing i've got is ear rings, and thats pretty common anymore i think

Um, i'm white, and american, so i can't really think of any stereotypes that really effect me when i live in Missouri and never see anyone who isn't from america to make american stereotypical jokes

Actually being really pale i do get the occasional hitler youth jokes, apparently the guy had a thing for blondes with blue eyes

Eh, well... it's not something that really affects me, but most people don't expect a person of full middle-eastern descent to be white, but I'm completely Lebanese and, well, white. My skin is light and apparently, middle-easterners are classified as caucasian, as well... so I'm a white person with a background in Arabian culture.

Many people know about the population true, but that doesn't save me from the stereotype of being non-African or worse, European. I've never heard of Matapato, I was raised (not born) in the Great Rift Valley, nice place. My family has been a farming family since they came to Africa.

Im not really afected by all the "gingers are angry" stuff, I've been a little bit afected by the fact that I don't have a soul, but that's not really a stereotype, it's the truth.
There are some stereotypical norwegian stuff, like eating whales, wrestling polar bears, fighting sea monsters and raiding England, but these are also facts.

Living in the south east of England as I did for a number of years, having a regional accent made the locals think it was acceptable to be unbelievably rude to me on a daily basis. It was kind of weird to see the pretension of any sort of manners and social graces fall away from even middle-class, middle-aged social climbers who revealed themselves as obnoxious troglodytes given half an excuse. The relevance is that lazy stereotypes drove most of the unoriginal comments that poured forth from these ignorant halfwits. I shouldn't have really let it bother me but it kind of gets to you after a while. I'm not sure it really helped that I saw the pack mentality turned on anybody else with an accent that marked them out as "not from here", even if "not from here" was just the next county.

I'm a Southerner of the United States. So... yeeeeah.