Tuesday, 19 January 2016

Regional Identity Stereotypes

Northerners
  • Fondness for gravy
  • More adapted to cold weather
  • Prefer more rural surroundings 
  • Typically part of the Working and Middle classes 
  • Chavy
  • Tracksuits 
  • Uneducated
Southerners
  • More upper class
  • Posh 
  • Expensive
  • Touristic
  • Teen mums
  • Drugs and sex
  • Orange makeup
  • Glamourous but cheap
  • Either presented as posh and wealthy or poor and criminalistic
English
  • Drink a lot of tea
  • Polite
  • Complain about the weather
  • Posh accents
  • Fish and chips
  • Like queueing 
Irish
  • Drink 
  • Swear
  • Gossip
  • Loud
  • Confrontational
  • Able to dance and sing
  • Nice but unintelligent
Scottish
  • Angry
  • Drunk 
  • Red hair
  • Racist
  • Don't like the British 
Devon/Somerset
  • Contryside
  • Slow
  • Behind the times 
Liverpool
  • Women wear rollers
  • Over drawn eyebrows

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