New Jersey ?!?!

[jonyca]

Hi everybody I am from Croatia in Europe and I have one question about New Jersey!
I never been in US and I don't know nobady from there so I will ask you folks here!
I would like to know this....when I look movies here on TV and in that movie someone is from New Jersey and every time that person say that everybody make yokes with that person like :...hahaha he is from New Jersey so he is stupid.........or something like that!!! Why?
Can someone tell me what is about that everybody makes fun of people who is from N Jersey?
Tnx
Kiss

[OmegaNYC]

It is something that is called "Stereotype (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype)". It just that people think that everyone from NJ is either stupid, in the mob, or some kind of tough guy with a NYC accent. It just like when people think that everyone from Texas, owns a gun, and talk in a southern drawl. Everyone from the South is a redneck who is backwards in their thinking. Or that people from California is an airhead who only cares about cars, fashion, and plastic surgery. It is just sterotypical thinking. That's all. No truth behind it.