What's your view on stereotypes?
What do you think of people who say the following?:
Americans are fat
Russians are paranoid
etc.
I pesonaly can't stand them but what do you think?
They are hilarious!
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True, a minority of celebrities who happen to live in Britain do not have stellar teeth, but that is the same with all countries. The question is 'What's your View on Stereotypes?' and I fear that we are going off on a [strange] tangent. ...But that's fine with me. Side: There too prejudice
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Unfortunately, everyone has some amount of prejudice no matter who they are, what they do, what they believe. Prejudice is inherent in the human thought process. So, steretypes are simply the first thing people think about when presented with the question "what do you think about...". It just doesn't matter who or what the question refers to, the first thought will always likely be the prejudicial thought, like it or not. I don't think human nature can be changed. Side: There too prejudice
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I would like to say that there are many types of stereotypes. There are certain stereotypes of national character which are well known in Britain. For instance, the Irish are supposed to be great talkers, the Scots have a reputation for being careful with money and etc. In our country we have stereotypes about southern and western population. For example, southerns think that people of western side are more rude, it`s not true. However, westerns think that southerns are more cunning and swift. And these kinds of stereotypes will exist all the time I think. Side: There too prejudice
Obviously certain people just stick to narrow believes refusing to accept the new ways! I can't stand them either. Especially where I stay. The people here have a ''Stereotypical'' Thinking based on colour, race especially region and more so Religion. To categorize a person's character based on their race or region is completely unnecessary... We need to get rid of such thoughts. To believe all Muslims or all Pakistanis are terrorists or all Australians are descendants of convicts giving them a negative background. Or anything like that.... Side: There too prejudice
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