Whats the worst/best stereotype you've ever heard?

Question

And have you any new ones you'd like to add?

I won't tell you any of mine, I want unbiased answers.

Answer 1

Favorite Stereo Types:

Red heads have more fun (true)
Blonds are dumber than a box of rocks
Blacks are well endowed
Germans are Drunks
Irish are Drunks
Germans Like to fight
Irish like to fight.
Geeks Live in their mothers basements and watchi star trek all day and have never seen a bare piece of female skin.
all muslims are terrorists.
all terrorists are muslim

Answer 2

Some racial stereotypes are more or less correct. Others are malicious propaganda lies. You tell the truth from the lies by the available evidence.

Nowadays, political correctness is held in more favor than truth, so, to find that evidence, you might have to go to some trouble, peering into dark corners inside very dusty libraries after persuading a reluctant librarian to let you borrow the key to the locked "archives" room in back. But usually if you persevere, you can still learn the truth about racial differences and discover what is known about their causes.

What the "racial equality" propagandists make of (true) stereotypes is not what those who use them mean by them. Those propagandists make a strawman argument against "stereotypes" that's easy for them to refute, but which evades the real nature of racial stereotyping.

Unless he's joking, a racist won't say (for example) that all Blacks are stupid. Instead, he'll say that the average IQ for Blacks (resident in the US) is 15 points lower than the average IQ for White Americans. The statement that the racists really do make is a true statement. The statement that the leftist racial egalitarians attribute to racists ("all Blacks are stupid") is a false statement.

Let's suppose that you're a contestant on a TV game show, and your challenge is to correctly guess the number of dots that will appear "face up" after a pair of dice are tossed. Now, there are dice having six, eight, ten, twelve, or 20 sides. Would it be of some interest to you what sort of dice they were? Yes! Why?

Because different sorts of dice will have a different probabity distributions for the numbers of face-up dots. Usually one or two possible totals of face-up dots will have the highest probability, with a trailing off in the probability for the totals that are higher or lower than the most probable total(s).

If you were allowed to ask one question about the dice tossing game before the toss was thrown, you'd be smart to ask "Bob Barker" (or whoever the host was) what sort of dice they were, specifically: how many sides each of the dice had. The answer to that question would be the most useful bit of information that you could have in making your guess about the number of face-up dots resulting from the throw.

What you'd be doing is "stereotyping" the dice. Knowing the number of faces on them, you'd be able to calculate the "average" result. And, if you're quick about such things, you could also estimate the "standard deviation" associated with the results of tossing those dice. You would not be guaranteed to win, of course. But by stereotyping the dice, you could maximize your chance of winning and thus make the wisest choice possible.

The same thing is true with racial stereotyping. It's not unfair to safeguard yourself as much as possible, and, since the races are different in their behavior, it would be well for you to know the statistics pertaining to racial differences and then make your wisest possible choices about whom to associate with and how to live your life.

Let's suppose, however, that you aren't very good at math, so you can't figure out from the statistical evidence what the true stereotype for a particular pair of dice is. Some joker in the audience, who wants to see you lose, might shout out a suggestion he knows is misleading. That's what a false stereotype is: a lie.

But not all stereotypes are false. Some racial stereotypes, the ones supported by the record of the behavior of different races, are true. Other racial stereotypes are pure malicious propaganda. To tell the truth from the lies, learn the evidence.

Answer 3

That we are cheats. no longer all Geminis are like this, human beings. We in simple terms must be with somebody which will carry our interest. it is attainable and devoid of bending over backwards and pulling out each and all the stops. I surely have never cheated on a guy and not in any respect had to. And the back-stabber one bugs me too. I in simple terms think of the vindictiveness lies interior the guy, no longer the sign.

Answer 4

My favorite stereotype is that Native Americans are all spiritual, vision-seeking, wisdom-making, nature loving earth bunnies, when, believe me, they are no more spiritual than anyone else. My family trashes the earth the same as everybody else. Nobody I know goes around carrying a feather and talking to spirits. That one cracks me up

Answer 5

My 84 year old Grandma once told my sister, she didn't like her hair (she had it cut really short to the scalp) and that she should grow it as everyone would think she had turned Lesbian - To top it off she said and not the pretty one the one that thinks she's the man. We all laughed and she has grown it slightly but not cause of Grandma well maybe!

Answer 6

There was a doctor surgery somewhere in bradford area, a Pakistani man walked into the surgery. The waiting area was crowded with patients, and the man made a bee-line for the doctors office when he was stopped by an irate woman. She said, in an unashamed manner-

" You wait", and pointed downwards, "Doctor come out, see you, you understand?"

Unphased the man replied- " Me doctor, that my office- You understand?!"

Answer 7

The worst is the old chestnut about us Scots being tight-fisted. We're one of the most generous nations on earth and it makes my blood boil to hear it repeated again and again

Answer 8

the worst stereotype is that America is a free country
the best stereotype is that white trash families have no class

Answer 9

This has hap penned to me a few times, I am Mexican/American, I meet some person, and after a while I hear the comment
"Hey, you speak pretty good English", so I must explain that I have been in the U.S. all my life, I think they want to hear
"Oh, senior, I am much please to meet you" .you know with that
funky Mexican accent.

Answer 10

worst stereotype i know of is one i get treated to, that all women are over emotional,i admit i have emotions and am not afraid of expressing them, but i don't think that its over the top,and the people that except me don't think so.i refuse to be cold hearted.as for best i like that people see my red hair and think i am going to get mad easy, it really surprises them when i don't.