Saying something nice about foreigners
July 26th, 2007Those who are new to this site may not get my humor and may mistake me for a xenophobe. I’m actually quite the opposite. I just like to push the boundaries of humor, because with today’s political correctness, we’re not allowed to laugh at shit in public. It has come to the point of ridiculousness.
People are so oversensitive today that anything offends them. They’re offended by jokes, and they’re offending by generalizations, which often contain general truths. Heck, I was accepted to a Masters program in Sociology, which I ended up not taking up because I took up Computer Science instead. As a sociologist, all you do is deal in generalizations.
Anyways, here are some things I like about various people in other countries.
1 - Thais are the world’s nicest people. Their niceness is genuine too, with no ulterior motives.
2 - Japanese are some of the world’s most polite people. I was confused about the whole business card exchange thing, but now I understand that and keep lots of business cards on me when dealing with Japanese. Plus Sushi rules. Sushi or a good steak are tied for my favorite food (with Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in a close 3rd).
3 - I love French film. Badman only drinks French wine (from a specific region too, I forgot which one), but I’m a beer guy, so I can’t tell you one way or another. France has some brilliant directors and some seriously hot actresses too.
4 - I love Guiness and Corned Beef and Cabbage. Plus, Irish are great to drink with. Wonderful conversations.
5 - I loved every time we crossed the border into Canada. Canadians are exceptionally friendly and surprisingly good-looking.
6 - And I loved every time we crossed the border into Mexico. Mrs. Z and I had a blast in Cozumel, the last time we went there. Mexico has two of my favorite directors, some excellent musicians, and beautiful silver jewelry. I had a great time haggling for silver there.
7 - Pakistanis are a blast to party with. Funny that I’ve rarely met one who didn’t drink, even though they’re not supposed to. Whoops, I don’t think I was supposed to tell. Ok, forget I said that.
8 - Italian women are gorgeous. And their food rules. It’s definitely an underrated cuisine because too many Americans think Olive Garden is Italian food.
9 - Israelis are funny. I think Jews and American blacks are the funniest people in the world.
10 - New Zealand is gorgeous and her people are friendly. Imagine California with only four million people and you have New Zealand. Wide open space for days, good fishing, and very helpful people. One day we were on the side of the road taking pictures and several people stopped to ask if everything was ok. Imagine that.
And Spain has awesome castles.
“Canadians are exceptionally friendly and surprisingly good-looking.”
Thx. I think…
Hi These are great reviews on different cultures. We have so many of them here in WI its hard to tell sometimes. But the ones I have come across are mostly interesting.
trinidad has some of the most beautiful women on the planet and i think it has something to do with the way so many ethnicities have intermarried…east indian, chinese, african, portuguese mix is not at all uncommon.
and when trini’s tell jokes they are about grenadians…they way we tell blonde jokes.
Awww, he cares what we may think…
That’s a very cool post; I’ll steal the idea from you for one of those ‘nothing to say’ blog weeks.
For the record, we know you’re not a xenophobe and you’re funny.
Jean - Coming from Seattle, where people’s looks leave something to be desired, it’s a surprise to see such good-looking people once we crossed the border. That’s what I meant.
Tweety - I haven’t been to Wisconsin in too long. I don’t even remember much of it, other than rooting for the Packers. As you probably know, I’m a die-hard Packer fan from childhood.
Lime - Please post some pics! There’s nothing I like more than beautiful women, as I’ve probably mentioned a million times.
Would love to hear some Grenadian jokes.
La Cremiere - Thanks. Sometimes, my humor goes overboard and I’m not sure if it’s taken as an insult or if people realize I’m trying to be funny. The people I’ve stolen the most from are probably Mel Brooks, Chris Rock, Dave Chapelle, and Rodney Dangerfield. Most people don’t remember this but a lot of folks were offended by the original The Producers.
I tried to find an article I read recently about different world regions making fun of each other, but couldn’t. Ugh.
I agree P.C. can be worse that what it’s trying to correct and many are too sensitive. We’re training a whole generation to place more value on feelings than reality.
We’re training a whole generation to place more value on feelings than reality.
You hit the nail on the head there, my friend.
The world would be a barren place without humor! Hell, we make Tourette’s and OCD jokes at our house.
Tshsmom - Awesome. OCD is such a German thing. Practically everyone I know with 50% of more of German blood has at least a slight case of OCD, or at the very least, perfectionism.
No shit?!
That explains a LOT. L is almost 100% German, and I’m half.
Nice post, ZS! Lol at #5, you must be talking about Montreal….we don’t agree re Guiness (man that stuff is hard to take)….
Wow, you have been a busy blogging boy haven’t you? I missed all that, geez I’m sorry.
We are so overly politcally correct it’s obscene sometimes. I wonder how much further we can go with that before imploding on our sensitivity? lol
Good points, I totally agree with #9 ;D
I flew up to Maine several years ago right after my wife and I were married to see some of her old college friends. We went to some comedy house and as chance would have it the comedian started joking on Southerners. The guy was cracking pretty hard on us folks from the South about how we talk and whom we marry and at some point I happen to notice that my wife’s friends at our table were not laughing and watching me. I was able to find out despite the noise that they were expecting me to exploded or something over the what was being joked about. I guess given what they thought about Southerners they were surprised when I told them it was not an issue and I was laughing because to a great extent some of it was true.
Beach - I used to live in Texas, not too far from where they dragged that one guy. Nice people, but yeah, they had their idiosyncrasies. As does every region.
One of these days, I’ll have to post some Southern jokes for ya.
Funny thing about Maine, knew a chick from Vermont who used to make Maine jokes. Guess what they sounded like? Redneck jokes.
Moni - So I’m not the only person who noticed that.
Yeah, I could see someone having a cow so much their head implodes one of these days because of political correctness. Geez, the university I went to definitely had enough of those people. I had people get offended for me while I wasn’t even offended.
Bridget - If Montreal also has babes, I need to go there immediately. I’ve only been to Vancouver, and here I am judging Canadians by Vancouver. How shallow of me.
The only Guiness I like is the one that’s not that Extra Stout. That stuff is too harsh for me.
I love Guinness. It’s always been thought that we (the family) were about 50% Irish and 50% German, but the brother did some research recently and found we’re mostly German, and I certainly don’t suffer from OCD. I also prefer to think I’m mostly Irish, as my 100% German grandfather was not a poster child for the German people.