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Lavinia Bogojel
FR-ENG
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What is a cliché/stereotype? A cliché or stereotype is a thought that
may be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doingthings, but that belief may or may notaccurately reflect reality.
Stereotype content refers to theattributes that people think characterize
a group. Studies of stereotype contentexamine what people think of othersrather than the reasons and mechanismsinvolved in stereotyping.
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The effects of the process of
stereotyping
One example of the negative effects of stereotyping would besimply laws and rules created where some people benefit andothers do not based on negative stereotypes. For example, theJim Crow laws of the south would be an example of theconsequences of negative stereotyping. Blacks were looked uponas inferior beings. Now, the stereotype that effects that kind of thinking is enough, but the results of that were devastating.
Another effect of stereotyping is that it stops us from learning realfacts about real people. For example, if a person believes all Arab Americans are terrorists, that person won’t learn anything moreabout Arab culture or people. Or for Native Americans, much of what people know about American Indians is a stereotype.People tend to see Indians as people who wear feathers, makewhooping sounds, or other stereotypes.
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Stereotypes also exist about cultures ancountries as a whole. Some examples of
cultural stereotypes:~All white Americans are obese, lazy, and dim-witted. Homer
Simpson of the TV series The Simpsons is the personification of
this stereotype.
~Mexican stereotypes suggest that all Mexicans are lazy and cameinto America illegally.
~All Arabs and Muslims are terrorists.
~All people who live in England have bad teeth.
~Italian or French people are the best lovers.
~All African Americans outside of the United States are poor.~All Jews are greedy.
~All Asians are good at math.
~All Asians like to eat rice and drive slow.
~All Irish people are drunks and eat potatoes.
~All Americans are generally considered to be friendly, generous,
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~Italians Always Eat Pasta- It is true that Italians love
pasta and miss it when they are abroad, but foreigners
should know and understand that Italians do not always
eat pasta.~Every Chinese knows Kung fu or other Chinese martial
arts.
~All Germans are blonde, have no sense of humor, and
love beer.
~All Russians are cold and emotionless.
~All French hate Americans .
~All British people love soccer and have the same accent.
~All Cubans roll cigars.
~All Italians are in the Mafia.
~All Columbians are drug dealers.
~Russians are violent.~
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“Remember wheneveryone thought thatus English wentaround sipping teaand talking in a poshaccent?
We used to be likethat.Not anymore.”
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Police officers buying donuts and coffee, an example
of perceived stereotypical behavior in NorthAmerica.
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