This can include social stereotypes and racial stereotypes, and pretty much anything else you can think of.
What are the common stereotypes? What can we do to reduce stereotypes in our societies?
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This can include social stereotypes and racial stereotypes, and pretty much anything else you can think of.
What are the common stereotypes? What can we do to reduce stereotypes in our societies?
Emo is a big stereotype. Wearing black and eye liner seems like the minimum needed to be called emo.
All stereotypes are the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by DestFinis
Common ones that I can think of:
Jews are cheap
Blacks eat friend chicken, watermelon, and enjoy malt liquor
Whites have no butts and can't dance
Asians can't drive and replace the l sound with an r sound
Women can't drive
Muslims are terrorists
Arabs are muslims
Anyone darker than white, but not black is Mexican
Mexicans are lazy
Gays like the musical theatre and have the best style
Lesbians wear flannel shirts and drive pickup trucks
Christians hate homosexuals and believe in creationism
The french are stuckup
Americans are rednecks
Asians all know kung fu
Asians have small penises
Blacks have large penises
Blacks are always looking for a mugging victim
Southerners are gun nuts
The way to get rid of these stereotypes is for people to stop being so damn sensitive to them. Learning to laugh at yourself and realize that people make racist jokes that are just jokes is good for society. No one gets offended when Lisa Lamponelli makes some of the most racist jokes I've ever heard because everyone knows that they are just jokes.
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Originally Posted by Universal Mind
But seriously... I can't see 'list the stereotypes' going well.
This is no more a stereotype than me saying every blade of grass is a shade of green.Quote:
Originally Posted by ninja9578
I live in Mississippi and I'm glad you cited this as a stereotype because I'm tired of people thinking Southerners (especially Mississippian's) are gun-slinging drunkards. If anyone else says any differently they can argue that "stereotype" with the barrel of my rifle...or challenge me to a beer drinking competition.Quote:
Originally Posted by ninja9578
I agree with ninja, they are simply just stereotypes and are meant as a simple joke. I don't ever understand why people are always so sensitive to them.
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Is it true that Mississippians also beat their wives/sisters? Or is that just another southern stereotype :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff777
Only when they got it coming to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by ninja9578
No that's horrible...lol.
Sex with your sister is best after a good fight.Quote:
Originally Posted by ninja9578
Apparently white people smell like wet dog. :whyme:
Lmfao. Were you watching Comedy Central last night? If so, that stand-up comic was pretty damn funny. :chuckle:Quote:
Originally Posted by DuB
Puerto Ricans can dangle from steel bars for hours on end
Peruvians always swoop in and save the day, and shoot laser beams from their eyes
(the onion movie)
What are you getting at with Christians?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff777
Musicians are junkies :(
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Originally Posted by guitarboy
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Originally Posted by ninja9578
Actually no, although I do love to watch stand-up. I first heard this one a couple years ago from my social psych professor, believe it or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oneironaut
Oh and another stereotype that you hear a lot here in OK is that all Indians (Native Americans) are alcoholics and/or addicted to meth.
How about Indians owning Casinos.
When you get old you're legally obligated to watch the news, move to Florida, vote republican, and wear pants that come up to at least your naval. :P
I don't get this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jhony
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She is very skiny, wearing tight clothes, a redneck, and a blondie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grod
She's a whore, stereotype made.
You guys aren't really helping with the pictures. I guess I pretty much made a pointless topic. Let's redeem this.
Have you guys ever been the victim of stereotypes?
Obviously, somebody has to go through with one in their lives. :?
Thanks to those who contributed. :bowdown:
I'm Asian.Quote:
Originally Posted by DestFinis
And yes I've been through them. And you know what, here's a stereotype I'm proud of:
Asians are super smart.
And living in a poor state in a poor educated school, I feel quite good for myself.
Only one Ive been a victim of is white boys cant dance. Love proving that one wrong, lol. Incedentally I was called black at my school, yes, by the black people :lol:
But what do blacks wash down all that fried chicken with? GRAPE DRINK OF COURSE!Quote:
Originally Posted by ninja9578
Apparently I hate Homosexuals and believe in Creationism(I can see this though,depends on how you believe God made the universe though).Quote:
Originally Posted by DestFinis
At first I wrote down a whole bunch of hate speech about black people, gay people, the Irish, and athiests.
But then I was like
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I thought it was orange soda? :? ...Oneironaut!? :PQuote:
Originally Posted by grasshoppa
I'm sticking with the malt liquor, myself. :wino:Quote:
Originally Posted by ninja9578
Lol.
And to the question of :
Almost daily. A majority of my closest friends are white and, since I feel at home hanging out anywhere and with anyone, I'm often perceived as "that black guy," especially by those that haven't had all that much exposure to black people. It never seems to fail that simply my presence is enough to provoke a racial joke or stereotype or two. It's not always something overtly mean-spirited, but often something that can be interpreted as such. I'll usually just laugh it off because, really, what point is there in getting defensive over it? It gets old after a while, though.Quote:
Have you guys ever been the victim of stereotypes?
Obviously, somebody has to go through with one in their lives.
On the other hand, I hear stereotypes about white people, coming from black friends and family, all the time. Again, not always something obviously malicious - but ignorant, nonetheless.
I try not to stereotype because I'm conscious enough to know that there are exceptions to every stereotype. To just assume someone is not an exception is (the way I see it) to disrespect that person, without even knowing anything about them. Often being one of those exceptions, myself, I just find it really ignorant when people undermine that fact simply to dish out some of what I would consider "tasteless humor."
Laughter is the best way to cure the world's problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oneironaut
scottish people just eat haggis, they only wear kilts, they all have ginger hair, and noone can understand them. thats a big stereotypical view of scottish people.
and im scottish and i dont like haggis, ive only worn a kilt like 3 times for weddings etc. i dont have ginger hair, and i have a perfectly understandable accent.
Dude, what?
My friends would always make fun of my native ancestry, but I'd just go along with it because it never really bothered me too much.
Generally I find stereo types funny, because when people use them it is usually because assuming bad things about other people makes you feel better about yourself.
At least when they are serious about the stereo types. I like stereo types because they are so ridiculous. When I see things depicting say, a black person liking watermelons, or a Jewish person hoarding money, it makes me laugh at the silliness.
The jews have all the money and the whites have all the power.
Does that mean I'm black because I loooooves my mufuckin watermelon?
No, haven't you taken logical algebra? p=>q isn't the same as q=>p :P
I love watermelon and fried chicken, grape drink is really good too. Seriously, if I had a plate of that, that would be like the best food ever.
The stereotype isn't true, but you can assume it as black people having good taste.
My friends always ask me if I will mow their lawn for five pesos because I;m Hispanic.lol. I;m not even Mexican. :s
ANd then one always aks me how it was to cross the border, and i;m like wtf because I;m American and he is an immigrant from Albania. xD
If you're hispanic and live in:
the southwest or the south, then you're mexican
new york, then you're puerto rican
florida, then you're cuban
alaska, then you're inuit
^Mencia or did he steal it from someone else?
Germans are nazis
Americans are dumb
French are fruity
British are hooligans
Russians live off of vodka
Eh, wotcher you got dat lil bugger right there? I reckon my woife in the yahd knows what am talkin' aboot!Quote:
Originally Posted by dajo
I'd lock my car door if I saw you coming because I have a stereotype against people with swords.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oneironaut
How is that a stereotype? I mean, I certainly never assumed all of them were descendant from Mexico, but...Quote:
Originally Posted by ninja9578
I lived in Texas, and all the Mexicans I knew were Mexican.
Of course, my stereotype is that I call all of the Hispanic people "Mexican."
It was a joke, lol.
That sounded like something straight from Archie Bunker's mouth. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sandform
But you get what I was saying right? I just called all Hispanic people Mexican, it wasn't that I thought they were actually from Mexico.Quote:
Originally Posted by Universal Mind
However, all of the Hispanic people I knew usually were either from, or descendant from people who were from, Mexico. I knew a few who were like...from portugal, but not many.
Yeah, I understand why you said it, but it is hilarious. Some hispanics might get offended by things like that, though. If you call a Puerto Rican a Mexican, he might think that you care so little about the differences among hispanics that you just throw one big don't give a shit label on all of them. I don't think you were doing that, but it could be perceived that way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sandform
This conversation reminds me of an incident I watched at a Chinese restaurant last year. An Asian couple was eating there, and some guy with a country accent asked them what a certain Chinese word meant. He assumed that any Asian in a Chinese restaurant would be Chinese. The people he asked might have heard nothing but, "All Asians are the same." I just thought it meant he didn't think long enough for it to dawn on him that Koreans and Japanese might like Chinese food too. (Or Americans of Korean or Japanese (etc.) ancestry. I might need to put myself on Archie Bunker alert.)
Stereotypers are stereotyped to stereotype individuals into narrow-minded classifications.
Man has built a society where stereotypes will exist. Turn on the news. The only thing you'll ever hear politicians and the media talk about is the differences between people. The things that seperate us. Race, skin colour, religion, money, job, social class, education, beliefs, etc. Thats all you ever hear about on the news. You never hear about the things that everyone shares. The things that unite us as a species.
Have you ever thought about the politicians/people that have been assassinated? It's always people that tell us to care for one another and live in harmony. Help each other.
The reason we always hear about our differences - the things that seperate us is because that is the way any upper class in a society divides the rest of the people. They keep the middle and lower class fighting with each other so they, the rich, can run off with all the money. Happens to be extremely efficient.
Stereotype: All british have bad teeth (don't know if this was said or not)
How many times have you caught a blurry out of focus snapshot of the lochness monster?Quote:
Originally Posted by slash112
Classic All in the Family: A short clip that illustrates the nature of stereotypes very artfully...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dKpHtc9F9M
excuse me, not to perpetrate the black steretype, but... who the hell doesnt love fried chicken??? i mean really come on people! and yeah, kinda like oneironaut it goes for both sides. i got to a mostly white school and they all make jokes about me getting an afro and fried chiken and all that stuff... it was funny the first couple times but it got annoying. and then because i dont sag my pants and use excessive slang and play basketball they say I'm "white". thats the thing that really pisses me off! haha all the pasty pale kids callin me white.
I know, who the hell doesn't love fried chicken. It tastes damn good.
I get sick of it after about 2 drumsticks, then I don't want to eat it again until I forget it even exists.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grod
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Originally Posted by Sandform
I used to get pretty annoyed at my friends for calling me "White" or metro because I come off as an erudite and eloquent person. I suppose I'm just a savvy articulator but I don't know...I am pretty judgmental about people who can't form a decent sentence together. I want to throw a book at them sometimes. Since I don't sag, wear the FUBU or Rocawear clothes my peers do, speak slang, walk with a limp, and swear incessantly...I'm considered white amongst my black friends (this is what they said). As if doing the exact opposite in some way defines your "true" level of blackness. That's the kind of shit that really grinds my gears. And contrary to popular belief, black people do NOT have an additional DNA strand called N-B-A. :P
I was a very white, very TINY girl in school and the black kids used to call me a "Cracker" :D I have fond memories of that because I never hear it any more.
Stereotypes I get annoyed with:
All West Virginian's have sex with their relatives, are uneducated, and have no teeth. :shock:
Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe in Jesus. :bang:
That was harsh :? I hope you didn't verbally resort to their level of ignorance. You should have knocked their assess out though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zhaylin
Not at all. For the most part, it was affectionately said (much how now-a-days black people call each other the "N" word.
I am very sensitive to racism because I was tormented in school- physically and emotionally bullied to an extreme (I was pushed down the stairs once). For the most part, it was the white kids who were dishing it out. After awhile, a couple huge black boys started protecting me by just walking beside me in the hall. I never even knew their names. I was painfully shy back then and very mousey.
Wow. That's some story you've got there :shock:. Why were the white kids so mean to you back then?? You come off as a really sweet person. :whyme:Quote:
Originally Posted by Zhaylin
OMG I found this site a few weeks back and had to share it. The more I read it...the funnier it is to me lol. Prepare to shit your pants.
no it wasn't they were saying she was superior!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff777
They was thinking back to those old days of slavery and she was one of the ones cracking the whip, so really...they wants a good kinky whip from da lil white girl.:P:banana::banana:
oh and Jeff your friends don't call you a coconut do they?
" you dark on da outside, but you a white man in the inside u coconut!", lmao
exactly jeff, thats what happens to me. its annoying cause theres a couple black kids at school who do that too. I think its ridiculous! Someone is finally getting good grades and actually speaking the language properly just like all the great black leaders have dreamed for years and they decide to just put them down! And i really think some white people get their impression of black people from movies and music videos...
Says the asshole who puts entire races of people into misinformed generalizations.Quote:
Originally Posted by DreamViewzer
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Hey! Sup? So, I'm very honored to have you post in my thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by DreamViewzer
So what's it like being sane?
Why are black people so good at basketball?
Because it involves shootin', stealin', and runnin'.
LOL STERYOTYPES
here are some stereotypes from canada.
people from B.C province are all potheaded hippies.
All albertans are cowboys who eat prarie oysters.
All the people from Saskatchewan are hutterite (they are like the amish.)
Winnipeg is filled with crack heads.
french people are good at hanging gyproc but they can't tape worth shit.
All native people drink lysol while blasting AC/DC.
all people in the northern territories huff glue and live in igloos.
just to name a few.
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Originally Posted by ranma187
WAy to go cross country...West to east lol. the one about the natives is hilarious because I live i wth a native that loves heavy metal and alcohol...lmao.
Everyone from the maratimes (PEI, NB, NFL, NS) are like the trailer park boys.
Natives don't buy gas for their cars, they buy it to get high.
Natives are easy drunks.
HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE
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Originally Posted by Jeff777
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awesome