stereotype?

Question

what is that mean in american slang

Answer 1

Stereotype has many shades of meanings & usages.

What is 'Stereotype in simple terms?

It is a commonly-held view about a particular group of people e.g. a nation, social group, religion etc... Often incorrect and/or offensive.General biased classification to gain false-superiority

Some of the Common Stereotypes: (as per Urban Dictionary)

+ Americans are all loud, fat and obnoxious.

+ British people are all snobs and have bad teeth.

+ French people are all frog-eating, onion-lovers called Pierre.

+ Jews are all money-grabbing masterminds trying to take over the world.

1.) That all white women have flat booties.
2.) That all Jews are greedy.
3.) That all blacks are lazy, on welfare, and don't believe in marriage before child bearing.
4.) That all Asians are good at math.
5.) That all Arabs are angry people that like to blow shi*t up.
6.) That ALL black men are hung like elephants.
7.) ALL white men are hung like squirrels.

Source: Urban Dictionary

Answer 2

It just means that you are prejudging a person based on some outward appearance or trait without knowing if it's true or if they fit the category. I don't think it's slang, I think it's a word used by all americans. Like don't assume that every guy white guy wearing a trenchcoat with a shaved head is a member of the trenchcoat mafia or don't assume that every black guy in the elevator is going to snatch your purse. Don't assume that every chinese person eats rice and noodles, every black person does not eat watermelon and love chicken. Every white girl that has cornrows does not want to be black..... that's stereotyping........

Answer 3

Stereotyping is inevitable. notwithstanding that's as a lot because the guy about about no matter if or not they choose the human beings off of the stereotype or no matter if or not they get to entice close the guy before they choose them. i imagine about the stereotype of human beings each and each of the time (that child is emo, that one is punk and so on.) yet I attempt now to not ascertain that for the period of my head until eventually i extremely get to no them. human beings imagine those issues, then proceed to act and choose on the stereotypes. So Stereotypes are good for sorting out about the guy's outdoors visual attraction and how they carry themselves, yet they don't carry the actual personality, for you want to dig deeper.

Answer 4

Stereotype means sterotype, and it doesn't mean racist. However, stereotyping someone can sometimes be racist. But, stereotypes can be about more than race, that's why it's not always racist.

There is no slang word for it.

Answer 5

for Americans it is not slang... it is a way of placing people of certain, it not all ethnic backgrounds into groups based on fallacies.

examples :

all black people are ghetto

Asian women can't drive

Jewish people are tight w/ their money

... i hope this this helped you.. i am not a good source for stereotypes because i try to avoid them @ all times. to me we are all human and that is all that matters.. treat one another w/ respect.

Answer 6

it's shared characteristics of a group of people that is common to a group, like the cowboys in Brokeback Mtn were not your stereotype cowboys.

Answer 7

To automatically characterizing someone with a trait based on discrimination.

Eg. I'm Canadian, so I must like hockey.

It's not true, but people assume I do because I am Canadian

Answer 8

It's saying something about a whole group of people that does not apply to everyone in that group.

Answer 9

oversimplified conception: an oversimplified standardized image of a person or group

Answer 10

WHAT PEOPLE MAKE UP ABOUT A GROUP OF PEOPLE TO DESCRIBE SOME THING THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO REGARDLESS IF IT'S TRUE OR NOT.