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A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing: “sexual and racial stereotypes”.
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View or represent as a stereotype: “the film is weakened by its stereotyped characters”.
A I S T D E E M “London Calling” Do young males in the UK feel like they are constantly being stereotyped in a demeaning way in print and broadcast media? One young man offers an interest- Jamal, 19, who is also a college student, says of U.K. ing take; that some Black males end up fulfilling the media: “They portray us in a malicious manner and media’s stereotypical depictions. make out as if we carry out crime for the sake of it. I strongly believe that 90 percent of crime is to be rich “Of course, young Black males are being stereotyped because the media and the rest of society hold us back because the media always say what we are not,” an 18 in other areas.” year old college student, Gerson, who provides only his first name, says. “If you keep saying someone is Music producer Sean, aged 22, says the problem is something; eventually they become it and believe that “black male” is automatically linked with crime it. For example, the media are always talking about in this country. “If someone is murdered on the us wearing hoodies so that’s only going to encour- streets, the first suspect is a Black man or a gang of age us to keep wearing them.” Another student, 18 Black men,” Sean says. “People always assume that a year old Chris, who studies sociology, agrees with Black man wearing a hoodie is a criminal; it frustrates Gerson and adds that so long as White males con- me because for all you know, my hood could be up trol major media, the stereotypes won’t diminish. because I’m cold and I left my winter coat at home or maybe I could be having a bad hair day, you see my point?”
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My hood could be up because I’m cold or maybe I’m having a bad hair day, you see my point?
Ryan Daniels, 20, a graphic designer, believes at the end of the day, only Black males can turn things around by taking matters into their hands.
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“I believe education starts at home. If you respect your parents and they teach you the correct way to live your life, then you’re off to a good start,” Daniels says. “It’s almost impossible to change the perception of white people.
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Nowadays, through the increasing power of mass media, it is a fact that images have a strong effect in the promotion of certain gender roles. These hidden forces shape us and our world view, often without us being aware that they are doing so. Gender stereotypes occur when generic roles have been applied toward either gender and the results are apparent everywhere in our society. The process of subtle gender shaping is all too present, even in children’s TV programmes. 213 males and females participated in a questionnaire which gave the following results. Males are stronger. Females like pink. Males like blue. Females are nurses. Males are doctors. Females belong in the kitchen. Males should work. Females should be the housewife. Males hare reading. Females are sensitive. Males are agressive.
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STEREOTYPE STATISTICS. Statistical reasearch was done to find out the views of many people around the UK. A questionnaire was sent out to 500 random people where 213 people replied and gave the following answers.
76% say they exist. 85% say they effect society. 70.2% say they're negative. 60% say they do not stereotype others. 91.2% say they have been stereotyped. 90% say they know the definition. but 70% got the definition wrong. 64% have been effected by stereotypes. 80% think stereotypes will still exist in 10 years. 48% say they have a negative effect on life. 70% say they would rather there were none.
T S U J L L A N E A W W Would you wear something that hurts you? I mean, literally causes you physical pain … Day in and day out? Over and over? Would you recognize it’s because of peer pressure and curse all your colleagues and friends who suffer in silence, but still carry on? Are they just worn because it’s a general stereotype that all woman wear heels? Would you heave a sigh of relief at the end of the day, but then with a stifled groan and false smile plastered across your face slip your feet into those darned heels again the next morning? Would you? Do you? She knows the long-term ramifications of wearing heels, too, yet she powers on. One of my friends had said to me sometime last summer, “You must be thrilled that flats are in vogue this season!” It was a comment geared at my £19.99 Payless shoes — the same pair (in brown and black) that I’ve been wearing the past two years. I’m not one to follow trends, but I’m a big fan of common sense. A male friend had once reacted to my disgust at a woman hobbling across the street, in obvious pain th thanks to her stilettos, “What’s wrong with you? Don’t you realize that women look more appealing in heels? Their whole swagger changes. Men find it really appealing.”
vogue this season!” It was a comment geared at my £19.99 Payless shoes — the same pair (in brown and black) that I’ve been wearing the past two years. I’m not one to follow trends, but I’m a big fan of common sense. A male friend had once reacted to my disgust at a woman hobbling across the street, in obvious pain th thanks to her stilettos, “What’s wrong with you? Don’t you realize that women look more appealing in heels? Their whole swagger changes. Men find it really appealing.” So, on behalf of the entire male community he had pronounced that women prized men’s attention over their own comfort. He might have been right, but I had responded with a big, “Whatever!” since I’d rather have a man fall for my wit than for the way my hips move on a stilted piece of footwear. A study by the Telegraph released on Tuesday, however, suggests that “men cannot even tell if a woman is wearing high heels when they walk.” So much for im-pressing men Sidenote: I’m not a big fan of wasteful studies either, but this one happened to present itself at an opportune time. Coming back to the topic at hand, I continue to be flummoxed by women’s capacity to endure pain just so their female form can appear more … ummm… attractive. But if men, supposedly, don’t even notice, who are you trying to be attractive for? Other women? But other women would surely empathize and then none of you would ever have to wear high heels again.
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SCHOOL stereotypes. Any stereotype cannot continue to persist if it does not have at least some truth in it. Two things contribute to school stereotypes - school culture and image. Both are inseparable. The influence of one’s school culture and image can be seen even years after one has left school. The English school stereotype can be very different to the American ones. Below highlights some of the main English Secondary school stereotypes and the effects they have on an individual.
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A stereotype of a group of young people, that are usually good looking and have expensive clothes. Females in this group are usually very concerned with their appearance and their fashions.
Chav...
A working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived “common” taste in clothing and lifestyle. One who wears tracksuits, Fred Perry, Berghaus, and excessive amounts of faux Burberry.
Nerd ...
A stereotypical label used to describe a person that is socially inadequate. A four letter word, but a six figure income. A person who gains pleasure from amassing large quantities of knowledge about subjects often too detailed or complicated for most other people to be bothered with. Often are the teachers pet.
Emo...
Stereotype of people who have a lower tolerance for sad emotions, and feels inadiquet of their own personal worth. They have long dark hair and listen to a lot of loud heavy metal.
europa stereotypes. european As the European crisis ratchets up antagonism between countries, there has been a rise in name-calling and fingerpointing: from lazy southerners to domineering northerners, with plenty in between. And that's before the football starts this summer. The six newspapers in the Europa project were asked to stereotype each other, and then asked cultural commentators in each country to assess how accurate they are.
in first place, followed by Portugal and Austria. But while the French, German, Spanish and Italians are drinking much less than they did in 1980, Britons are drinking 9% more.
part of our national image. One study found that 54% of British 15- and 16-year-olds admit to binge drinking, compared to a European average of 43%. In other words, there is more than a little reality behind the image.
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And, sure enough, drink, class and the second world war all crop up in the thumbnail sketch of the British (Europeans tend to use “British” as a synonym for “English”, rather forgetting the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish)provided by our colleagues across the Channel. It would be nice to say that our neighbours have us all wrong – but, sadly, cliches only become cliches if they are built on a foundation of truth.
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Start with the bottle. Sure, we can cling to the statistics that show we are far from Europe’s heaviest drinkers. In fact, the last round of OECD figures ranked us 11th in Europe for alcohol consumption, far behind France
The French figure may be high, but that’s driven up by a lot of people drinking moderately: the glass or two of red at dinner.. The British disease has even entered the French language: le binge drinking is the preferred phrase for vast, rapid consumption aimed solely at getting hammered. It’s this falling-over, vomiting brand of drunkenness, visible in most city centres on a Friday night, that has become
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Brits are portrayed as class-conscious binge-drinkers utterly obsessed with the war. It’s a thumbnail sketch, not the whole picture, writes Jonathan Freedland.
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Still, it’s not the volume of pints (or litres) consumed that has led What, though, of this descripto our boozy reputation. It’s the tion of us as “awfully class conway we drink that’s the problem. scious”? It’s tempting to say that that’s out of date, that most Britons now belong in the vast, sprawling middle class. But the figures are much less comforting. The OECD put Britain at the bottom of the social mobility league table, finding that children born into poor families here have a lower chance of getting on than they do in Italy, France, Spain or Germany. Even if the figures were not against us, we could hardly complain if our fellow Europeans think we have a hang-up about class. What message do we Brits think we send when our signature cultural export of 2011 was Downton Abbey, a show entirely about the intricacies of class and which apparently longs for a return to Edwardian notions of hierarchy? The smash West End play One Man, Two Guvnors similarly revolves around class. Unfortunately, it’s not just a foreigners’ myth that in Britain how one speaks and what school one attended still counts.
British stereotypes: do mention the war, please!
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