Now I am not racist in any way against Jewish people it's just I have known a number of Jewish families who match stereotypes. All Jewish people I know find themselves superior to other people. Although this might seem a very controversial question but do some Jewish families try to match stereotypes? Stereotypes meaning a typically smug person who is very self satisfied with themselves and their family on the outside but what goes on inside their home is completely not spoken of and forgotten . I've got a neighbor whose family is Jewish and all that family is hated because of how they act. For one their daughter is an "honor student" who does extra curricular activities while playing on a softball team. Her parents push her and push her not letting her make the decision to what her future is. Not only does this family constantly bring up how they've got a larger TV and an honor student and car that parks it self but they purposely live their life's like they are better.
2007-07-29 18:52:53 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
yes, absolutely they do. it's why it was a stereotype to begin with!
2007-07-29 18:55:58 · answer #1 · answered by (+_+) B 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm not Jewish, and I was an honour student. All my siblings are honour students. We live pretty well. I got the citizenship awards for my city, and a whole bunch of other awards. There are a lot of families where I use to live who are not Jewish and they have expensive cars, smart children, big houses etc... So what you're describing are a typical American, Canadian, European, Chinese etc... family who are well to do in their society.
The fact that they happen to be Jewish is not important.
It's like saying Chinese people are smart in math, Pakistani drives taxis or owns Convenient Stores, Afri-Americans are all gangsters. You can't take a small percentage of the population and then make it true, when in fact, if you take the population as a whole, you will see that many different groups can fit that category.
2007-07-29 19:00:04 · answer #2 · answered by Peekoo 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People like to tease other people. That's not necessarily a good thing but most are just trying to be amusing whether or not they succeed. My husband gets teased about being from Alabama, people here in N. GA get teased about being hillbillies, growing up I was teased for being Irish and having blue eyes and why couldn't I sing if I was Irish? One of my cousins was called shrimp and a friend was called string bean. I would like to tell you people grow out of it but that's not always true. Your choices go 3 ways. If you have a good wit you can make a few jokes yourself - G-d said we would inherit the world but why do we have to take the humans with it? Hey be nice to me. Have you seen this rain and it's my family who got the plans for the ark. something Are you bragging on me or just jealous? Or simply become deaf to the teasing either by choosing to take it as a compliment and replying with a compliment to them for ex some crack about your being an honor student can be answered with Thanks and you know you're really good at (whatever fits, music, sports, some school subject) or you can follow the classic rule that the less you show that you notice or are bothered by teasing the less you will get teased. You could find something they are sensitive about or something stereotypical about them and tease back but that usually only accelerates things.
2016-05-17 09:30:10 · answer #3 · answered by adelia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there are like 600 million people in any one ethnic group, odds are, there is always someone who's gonna fit the stereotype. But that has more to do with human nature than ethnicity. Give me 1000 people of any race and I'll show you someone who's cheap, lazy, well-endowed, short, tall, fat, skinny, loud-mouthed, demure, single mothers, jobless, workaholics---the list goes on... try looking at people as a whole rather than what religion or skin color they are...good luck...
2007-07-29 18:58:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
there is a percentage of any stereotype that has people who meet (or seem to meet) them; that's how stereotypes get going in the first place. The mistake is to assume all (or even most) of such group conform to stereotype, or to pigeonhole someone into that stereotype who doesn't fit, by seeing only the evidence that supports your view and discarding the evidence that does not.
2007-07-29 18:58:31 · answer #5 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can never tell if someones Jewish. Some people can I guess Im not that perceptive.
2007-07-29 19:19:22 · answer #6 · answered by peaches 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of course do. How do you think stereotypes originate. Where there's smoke there's fire.
2007-07-29 18:56:43 · answer #7 · answered by Sloan R 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Obviously **someone** can be found who will fit **every** stereotype. What you've described--******no*******.
2007-07-30 08:33:20 · answer #8 · answered by Mark S, JPAA 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Trust me, its not just Jews who do that...
2007-07-29 18:59:22 · answer #9 · answered by Kate 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is some truth to streotypes i guess.
2007-07-29 19:09:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋