don’t stereotypes come about for a reason?
if i was to say that germans are abrupt, miserable, rude and generally think they know better than others based on stereotypes of germans i have seen or heard, would i be right….? based on my experience of living in germnay, for the most part yes.
australians are fun loving, lager swilling and culturally inadequate group? after having been in australia for one year, yes.
black youths are drug dealing, knife wielding nutters happy to stab anyone for 10 quid? some are prehaps but, many are not. much like white kids. infact i know more ‘white’ kinfe wielding, drug dealing people then black. doesn’t mean to say then that white or black people are drug dealers or knife wielders but a section are so.
white british people are middle class, have 2.4 children, have a three-bed home, off raod parking and play golf for the social aspect? some do, some don’t. my dad would have fitted perfectly with that stereotype (the GF’s idea of being english) but many people wouldn’t.
indian or chinese people are festidious workers, happy to work 25 hours a day behind the counter of a corner shop or local take-away? obviously not but, it has been said in the past as that was what most of the general population saw of them.
stereotypes are not neccessarily wrong but, they can be mis-leading if believed or taken to be the norm.
but there will always be cultural differences.