悦游杂志访谈- 各国最常见的刻板印象有哪些

世界总爱给每个国家贴标签~全球人民对各个国家的刻板印象是什么呢？是真有其事还是误会一场？一起来看看各国人是怎么说的。

Dracula, Dracula's Castle, Transylvania.

德古拉，德古拉的城堡，特兰西瓦尼亚。（*德古拉是吸血鬼形象）

Everybody's kind of a vampire apparently.

别人觉得我们每个人都有点像吸血鬼。

Tall, blonde Vikings that drink a lot of vodka.

喝很多伏特加的高个子金发维京人。

Everyone drinks vodka.

每个人都爱喝伏特加。

That we drink a lot of vodka.

我们喝很多伏特加。

That we walk with bears and drink vodka.

我们和熊一起散步，还喝伏特加。

We love rice.

我们爱吃米饭。

Cheese and chocolate.

有很多奶酪和巧克力。

Cocoa and gold.

还有可可和黄金。

Pad Thai.

泰式炒河粉。

Tea.

茶。

Potatoes.

土豆。

Sushi.

寿司。

Of course I love sushi.

我当然爱吃寿司。

It is true.

这是真的。

We do love rice.

我们确实爱吃米饭。

That we all wear kilts and are very angry all the time.

我们都穿苏格兰短裙，而且总是一副怒气冲冲的样子。

And eat haggis.

还吃哈吉斯（苏格兰羊杂）。

That we eat Pho all the time, but we don't.

别人以为我们一直在吃越南河粉，但其实并不是。

We eat it for breakfast.

我们早餐会吃河粉。

We don't even eat it for dinner.

晚餐不会吃。

Oh, do you eat turkey in Turkey?

噢，你们在土耳其吃火鸡吗？

Pizza!

披萨！

You want some plate of pasta?

你想要盘意大利面吗？

Everyone thinks that everyone from Norway is tall and blonde, but I'm the wrong person to tell you that we're not.

大家都觉得挪威人个个又高又金发，但要说我们并非如此，我可没说服力 —— 因为我就符合这个印象。

Oh, you're from Chile, so it's so hot in Chile, right, all the time.

哦，你来自智利？那智利是不是一直都很热啊？

It's like, no, we're not the end of the world.

才不是呢，我们这儿也不是世界尽头啊。

It's automatically been good weather, but pretty...we have like tough winters.

大家一直觉得我们这儿天气不错，但冬天其实挺冷的。

It's a desert, we don't even have a desert.

以为我们生活在沙漠，但我们根本没有沙漠。

They probably think we're African.

他们可能觉得我们是非洲人。

That we have all darker skin, but actually we're all different.

以为我们都肤色很深，但其实我们各不相同。

Some people don't think that Malaysia's a country.

有些人甚至不觉得马来西亚是个国家。

They think we're an island or, yeah.

他们以为我们是个小岛，嗯。

Georgian people always wear black and always smoke.

说格鲁吉亚人总是穿黑衣、一直在抽烟。

That we all wear sombreros all the time.

说我们老戴墨西哥大草帽。

That we all live in the mountains and wear lederhosen all day long.

说我们都住山里，整天穿皮短裤。

We don't have internet.

说我们没有网络。

We're on the beach all day.

我们整天泡在海滩上。

Always like to take selfies.

认为我们喜欢自拍。

That the wild animals walk on the streets, like, around with us.

野生动物在街上乱走，跟我们走在一起。

Like, we, like, ride an elephant to school.

觉得我们骑大象上学。

That we ride kangaroos everywhere.

说我们到处骑袋鼠。

Go to school or work, buy camels.

上学或上班都骑骆驼。

That India's full of snake charmers.

说印度满街都是耍蛇人。

That the people are not as clean.

认为我们这儿的人不太讲卫生。

You get hung if you chew gum, which is not true.

嚼口香糖会被吊起来，这根本不是真的。

You just don't sell it.

只是不能卖而已。

The most popular cliche about Germans is that they sound very harsh, which is not always true.

关于德国人最常见的刻板印象是他们说话很凶，其实不总是这样。

A lot of people think that Israelis are very blunt.

很多人觉得以色列人说话很直接。

They kind of keep to themselves, which is definitely true.

说比利时人有点孤僻，这倒是真的。

Beer, which is true.

爱喝啤酒，这个是真的。

We're super nice and very polite.

我们非常友善、也很有礼貌。

It is very true.

确实如此。

People think we have huge weddings.

人们以为我们婚礼都很盛大。

I actually believe that too.

其实我也这么觉得。

We have about 2,000 guests sometimes at the wedding.

有时婚礼上会有两千名客人。

It seems like the stereotype may be that we stink, which I don't really get because we have one of the most advanced perfume industry in the world, so.

似乎有种刻板印象说我们身上有味道，我真的不理解，因为我们有全世界最先进的香水产业之一，所以……

People love scented perfumes, more like incense.

认为我们喜欢有香味的香水，更像是熏香。

And also in the houses, we like to perfume the house with it.

而且我们还喜欢让家里也充满香气。

I would say, when I say Bosnia, people say that's where the war was.

我一说自己来自波黑，人们就说：哦，那是打仗的地方吧。

Well, that was 17 years ago, so kind of over that.

那都十七年前的事了，我们早就不打了。

They don't know the country, and they'll be like, oh, so do you speak Chinese?

他们根本不知道这个国家，还问我“那你会讲中文吗？”

Or like, oh, are you Japanese or Korean?

或者问“你是日本人还是韩国人？”

What language do you speak?

你们说什么语言啊？

We all speak Spanish, and we speak English.

我们都讲西班牙语，也讲英语。

It's our first language.

那是我们的母语。

Hakuna matata.

放下烦恼、享受当下。

Nobody say that.

没人那样说。

People think that we speak Russian and we use Cyrillic, which is completely not true.

人们以为我们讲俄语、用西里尔字母，其实完全不是。

Like, we are an independent country.

我们是独立的国家。

Like, come on.

拜托。

That we are part of Russia.

说我们是俄罗斯的一部分。

That we're still a part of USSR.

说我们还属于苏联。

They think we're, like, totally different place.

别人以为我们是个和其他国家完全不同的地方。

Like, there's no, like, almost like there's no power or something.

好像我们那儿没电一样。

Every single time somebody meets me here, they go like, oh, did you buy these clothes here just for being in state?

每次有人在这里见到我，都会问：“你是不是只有在美国会这么穿？”

And I'm like, no, we all wear like, you know, jeans and stuff.

我说，不啊，我们也都穿牛仔裤什么的。

The men, they are macho.

认为我们那儿的男人很大男子主义。

Very macho.

非常大男子主义。

Short.

矮矮的。

Fat.

胖胖的。

Very loud.

说话声音很大。

Lazy and we sleep a lot.

懒惰，而且老是睡觉。

You know, we have siestas that last like three hours.

说我们午睡要睡三个小时。

I've never seen that.

我从没见过那样的。

People just call us tricky daddians.

人们叫我们“诡计多端的特立尼达人”。

They think we're cunning.

他们觉得我们很狡猾。

People think I'm a nurse.

人们以为我是护士。（*菲律宾有很多女性在国外当护士）

I'm like, OK.

嗯......行吧。

I think they think that everything is always easy going and that life is always a breeze, but it's quite difficult out there.

我觉得他们认为我们所有人都过得轻松自在，生活无忧无虑，但其实生活挺艰难的。

They think that people are poor and everybody is just running around just naked, I guess.

他们觉得人们都很穷，大家都光着身子跑来跑去吧。

It's not just about Ivory Coast, it's mostly about Africa.

不仅仅是科特迪瓦，人们对于整个非洲都是这种印象。

There's many sides to Kenya.

肯尼亚有很多面。

Of course, there's bad sides, but that's like everywhere in the world, there's bad sides, but TV will only show you our bad side.

当然也有不好的一面，但世界上哪儿没有呢？只是电视只会播我们不好的一面。

If you come to Kenya, I think you will enjoy it.

如果你来肯尼亚，我想你会喜欢的。

Everybody thinks it's very dangerous over there.

大家都觉得那儿很危险。

Parts of it are, but where I'm from, it's actually very peaceful there, so go visit.

有些地方确实是，但我来自的地方其实非常和平，欢迎来看看。