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Do other countries have this?

Aspergers_Aspie

Aspergers_Aspie

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Do other countries have this about posh and non posh people?
A Glasgow barman asked a customer would you like a glass with that, the customer answered glasses are for posh people. On another occasion in Dunfermline I heard a customer say to another customer that Edinburgh people are posh. Do other countries have similar things?
 
Yes. In the US, they call them "red neck" bars, where the tooth-to-tatoo ratio is a bit low. ;) We don't use the word "posh", but insert your local derogatory slang for "wealthy elite".
 
Yeah if you want to see posh people in Norway, just go to the west side of Oslo. The further west you go, the posher it gets.
 
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The city I grew up in, Adelaide, isn't so bad these days but there was a real class distinction thing going on here many years ago. People were judged by the way they dressed and the way they spoke.

If you looked a little rough shopkeepers and government departments would bend over backwards to make sure that they didn't even help you by accident.
 
While we obviously have classes (as no country is without them), I wouldn't really say it's close to being as ingrained in our culture as most other places, so I would honestly say no. It's more that poorer people are completely ignored rather than being complained about. We have some stuff about "center town rats", but that's just taken directly from other country's discourse and isn't particularly big here.

We have a lot of farmers who definitely have different opinions on a lot of proposals and tend to have a different culture, but I wouldn't say it's a "posh/non posh" distinction, more rural/city. We have some stereotypes about people whom live in different places, certainly, but they tend not to revolve around poshness. You wouldn't see the bar example happen here, though our drinking culture is also different than the one in Scotland.

I'm talking about Iceland for those not in the know.
 
Stuttermabolur said:
While we obviously have classes (as no country is without them), I wouldn't really say it's close to being as ingrained in our culture as most other places, so I would honestly say no. It's more that poorer people are completely ignored rather than being complained about. We have some stuff about "center town rats", but that's just taken directly from other country's discourse and isn't particularly big here.

We have a lot of farmers who definitely have different opinions on a lot of proposals and tend to have a different culture, but I wouldn't say it's a "posh/non posh" distinction, more rural/city. We have some stereotypes about people whom live in different places, certainly, but they tend not to revolve around poshness. You wouldn't see the bar example happen here, though our drinking culture is also different than the one in Scotland.

I'm talking about Iceland for those not in the know.
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Iceland is different, can't be compared to anything. No one understands what you guys are doing over there. ;) :)
 
Stuttermabolur said:
We have a lot of farmers who definitely have different opinions on a lot of proposals and tend to have a different culture, but I wouldn't say it's a "posh/non posh" distinction, more rural/city.
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We definitely have a lot of this in Australia, mostly because city people have little knowledge and little respect for what is common knowledge in rural areas.

People not closing gates behind them when they pass through large properties. Or closing gates when they should have been left open. Leave it how you found it.

People using animal's drinking troughs to wash, using soap. If there's even the slightest scent of soap in the water then the animals won't drink it, they will die instead of drinking it.

People letting their untrained dogs loose in properties and thinking it's funny watching their dog chase the sheep. Alsations are the worst for this and most farmers will shoot them on sight, they are most definitely not "shepherds".

People camping and just leaving their rubbish behind for someone else to clean up. People lighting camp fires with absolutely no forethought about clearing an area to make sure the fire doesn't spread. The list goes on and on.

Country people hate Townies.
 
Forest Cat said:
Iceland is different, can't be compared to anything. No one understands what you guys are doing over there. ;) :)
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Islands tend to be like that, no? Distinct and distant from mainland folks.

America is so big we have everything. It all depends where you go. But there is unfortunately a derogatory term for all kinds here. If you are it, there is an insult for you in America.

This is slightly off topic, but when I spent a year at university in Australia my American brethren and I were called Seppos. We embraced the term, but learned quickly that it was short for Septic Tank Yanks. Most of us had a poor view of our own country then, so we still accepted it with a laugh.
 
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I'm glad you didn't take that too much to heart, we probably have more racist terms than any other nation. A different term for every nation.
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Yes, the tough skin you develop in Oz is not just from all of that desert sunshine.
 
Many years ago I had a neighbour that was an American Negro, he came out to Australia playing professional basketball. He said he got really lonely and homesick and he missed his people, then one day he saw an aboriginal man in Hindley Street and walked up to him. He said "Hi Bro."

The aboriginal man looked him up and down, then stuck his hand out and said "Gimme dollar!". Anton said "No man, I just want to talk to someone my own skin colour.". The old aboriginal man looked him up and down again and said "!!!! off Yank!".

Anton said that broke his heart, in Australia he wasn't even black any more, he was just a Yank.
 
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I'm glad you didn't take that too much to heart, we probably have more racist terms than any other nation. A different term for every nation.
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I wonder what Australians call Norwegians? I hope they have a raunchy and funny name for us. It's difficult to insult Norwegians, we tend to laugh about it if someone calls us names. The rougher it is, the better. :D
 
Forest Cat said:
I wonder what Australians call Norwegians? I hope they have a raunchy and funny name for us. It's difficult to insult Norwegians, we tend to laugh about it if someone calls us names. The rougher it is, the better. :D
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We sort of bunch the nordic countries together, and they tend to have unpronounceable surnames - Heurgen Fleurgens.
 
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