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Lavinia Bogojel

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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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