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zukowashere ONLINE (11/29/2012) [-] Except if you think about it, stereotypes are half true.
The Germans have always been a tough, stubborn and industrially organized. Just so happened to make them a great country for conducting wars throughout history.
The French are a much more artistic and natural people. They own the language of romance and thus aren't as fierce as some other countries. Just compare the French and German languages. Which one is more guttural and tough? Which one is smoother and loose?
Arabic countries tend to be all Islamic. They take their religion very true to heart and are willing to defend it. It doesn't make them any different from the rest of the world, some of them might just be more susceptible to extreme measures due to their already extreme practices. Christian groups were much the same way around the time of the Crusades. They used the whole "slaughter the non believers" it didn't mean all Christian groups believed that, but the situation brought out extremists in their groups.
The USA has been a very wealthy and powerful country through history. It's been considered a superpower and thus its caused its people to have to worry less. When you can relax and not have to worry, you can enjoy the luxuries of life. Some might call it "living off the fat of life."
TL;DR I like stereotypical humor as it humbles us as people and makes us think about our possible faults. As long as its all in good taste.
The Germans have always been a tough, stubborn and industrially organized. Just so happened to make them a great country for conducting wars throughout history.
The French are a much more artistic and natural people. They own the language of romance and thus aren't as fierce as some other countries. Just compare the French and German languages. Which one is more guttural and tough? Which one is smoother and loose?
Arabic countries tend to be all Islamic. They take their religion very true to heart and are willing to defend it. It doesn't make them any different from the rest of the world, some of them might just be more susceptible to extreme measures due to their already extreme practices. Christian groups were much the same way around the time of the Crusades. They used the whole "slaughter the non believers" it didn't mean all Christian groups believed that, but the situation brought out extremists in their groups.
The USA has been a very wealthy and powerful country through history. It's been considered a superpower and thus its caused its people to have to worry less. When you can relax and not have to worry, you can enjoy the luxuries of life. Some might call it "living off the fat of life."
TL;DR I like stereotypical humor as it humbles us as people and makes us think about our possible faults. As long as its all in good taste.
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N. Korean citizen (11/29/2012) [-]
fucking sigh.. the redneck retard stereotype of the USA is from the fact that theres a fuckton of religious extremists or as sane people see them, retards.. people who vote for the fucking republican party! THE FUCKING REPUBLICAN PARTY! DING DING DING! RETARD ALERT RETARD ALERT! Fox News, people who think fox news is news or balanced... holy fuck theres a shitton of reasons people believe USA is full of redneck retards
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TheAnonymousRebel **User deleted account** (11/29/2012) [-] some scholars see americans being overwieght as a sign of prosperity and ease of life. we can afford to eat and eat and eat, while not having to be in shape per say to do our day to day activities, (kinda stereotyping here) like walking 5 miles to get water for the village every day, or hunting
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cringeage (11/29/2012) [-] I disagree.
Just taking all those stereotypes and making them positive doesn't change anything. The stereotypes were nonsense to begin with, and they're nonsense now, positive or negative.
Yes countries have different cultures and different heritages and different pervasive ways of thinking, but to say "all German people are calculating and efficient" or "all French people are Romantic artists" is just as implausible as saying "all British people drink tea and have posh accents" or "all Americans are fat".
And what if you don't want to be perceived as anything? What if you want to be a really butch, masculine French bodybuilder and yet everybody you meet prejudges you as a soft romantic?
Tl;Dr: Whether positive or negative, stereotypes are damaging because they inform our prejudices and prevent us from judging individuals based upon their characters and own actions.
Just taking all those stereotypes and making them positive doesn't change anything. The stereotypes were nonsense to begin with, and they're nonsense now, positive or negative.
Yes countries have different cultures and different heritages and different pervasive ways of thinking, but to say "all German people are calculating and efficient" or "all French people are Romantic artists" is just as implausible as saying "all British people drink tea and have posh accents" or "all Americans are fat".
And what if you don't want to be perceived as anything? What if you want to be a really butch, masculine French bodybuilder and yet everybody you meet prejudges you as a soft romantic?
Tl;Dr: Whether positive or negative, stereotypes are damaging because they inform our prejudices and prevent us from judging individuals based upon their characters and own actions.
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zukowashere ONLINE (11/30/2012) [-] Dear lord, I'm going to have to thumb this up. I don't care if you disagreed with me, you're comment was respectfully written and was phrased in a non-aggressive way. Glad there's more good people on FJ than I thought.
Good day to you, sir.
Good day to you, sir.
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ratiller (11/29/2012) [-]
Stereotypes are nonsense because they're supposed to be, part of social categorization is picking out or projecting qualities on an outgroup and then using them to create a social distinction " The US are a bunch of fat greedy fucks which makes us better because we're liberal and 10% less of our population is obese"
They'll never go away because it's an essential part of who people are to make themselves feel better by making their group seem better than another even if it's arbitrary and not quite true
They'll never go away because it's an essential part of who people are to make themselves feel better by making their group seem better than another even if it's arbitrary and not quite true
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cringeage (11/29/2012) [-] I know they're part of human nature. It makes life easier to lump people into groups to make society make more sense. And to some degree, the statistics of this can be helpful in fighting society's evils. However, when stereotypes get too much credence then they create prejudice like thinking all Chinese people are good at maths, or all Americans are fat. Which is not helpful at all, and its there that we need to overcome our natural instinct to categorise and make sense of the world in such a simple way.
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maxiummining (11/29/2012) [-]
You would be correct sir/ma'am/other. It doesn't really have anything to do with 'romance' as in love, just because in early history, everyone in Rome spoke Latin. French is derived from Latin. Some other Romance languages are Spanish and Italian.
