Fighting Stereotypes
A lot of people from different countries have national, race, religious prejudices. Some of them are deep-rooted, deep-seated, ingrained, some are rather funny, but most of them are ridiculous. There is a list of them:
The Chinese don’t value life - the Japanese even less. (
Mexicans are lazy bast..ds. (
All Brazilian escorts have financial problems. (
All Italian women have moustaches. (
All Kuwaiti men screw Filipino escorts. (
Arab men don’t like young baby girls. (
Fransen zijn chauvinisten. The French are chauvinists. (the
Alle Duitsers hebben dikke bierbuiken. All Germans have fat beer bellies. (the
Turks are dirty. (
Amerikanen hebben geen cultuur. Americans have no culture. (the
Amerikanen zijn materialisten. American people are materialistic. (the
Las Haitianas tienen en la vagina musculos que aprietan el pene. Haitian escorts have vaginal muscles that have a tight grip on the penis. (Dominican Rep.)
Hollandse eskortze zijn lelijk. Dutch escorts are ugly. (
All Latin females and males are non-citizens sending their money back to another country. (
Las Puertorrique as son lesbianas. All Portorican escorts are lesbian. (Dominican Rep.)
Duitsers hebben geen gevoel voor humor. Germans have no sense of humour. (the
Olanda: terra die mulini, tulipi, droga e zoccoli.
Turkse en Marokaanse jongens gaan om met Nederlandse meisjes alleen voor de sex, trouwen doen ze met Turkse meisjes. Turkish and Moroccan boys only date Dutch escorts for sex, they marry girls from their own country. (the
Italian escorts are good lovers. (
American (US) female escorts are sexually boring. (
Asian escorts are passive and submissive. (
Greek men are all gay and sleep with young boys instead of high-class escorts so the women are gay too. All gay people came from the Phonecians and Etruscans. (
English females are feminist. (
All Australians have kangaroos in their backyards and crocodiles roaming around their streets. (
Americans only visit the
Some people are applying stereotypes when they categorise group, and assume they are all the same because they belong to a particular set of people for example all women are caring, all men are brave. Clearly these statements are false because people can all be very different from each other regardless of the “categories” they fall into.
Stereotypes are not only harmful on their own, but they also do damage by encouraging prejudices and discrimination. For example people may hold negative stereotypes about people from particular countries, or particular religions. We can get rid of stereotyped images we have through education and familiarisation. By finding out more about a particular set of people, or getting to know different individuals from a group, we will usually find out that our stereotypes are false. We may even find that we have more in common with someone from a particular group than we have with other members of our own group. So, think twice before using stereotypes.