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spongekoji Member

Member since 29 December 2009

spongekojiMember17 February 2010 06:39:15

Maybe it is human nature to create patterns and association in an attempt to make incoming stimuli into configuration when people meet unfamiliar or unpatented events. But I don聮t know if it can take that far enough to explain the stereotyping people here do.

Allow me to give you a few examples:

a) I am not a martial arts master. I like baseball and soccer just as much as boxing or cage fight. But I am not a mater.

b) I don聮t speak Chinese and I am not a friend of Bruce Lee (I didn聮t even know him much, he聮s been dead for long right?) or Jacky Chan. I only know them as good as everyone does. And I have a brother meaning I don聮t have one kid policy imposed on me.

c) I cannot make sushi. I can try though in the same sense I could try to beat Roger Federor.

d) No I don聮t eat cats. I bet some Asian countries do. but no one I knew did.

I may be just as guilty since I did not know anything about Cape Town, in fact Africa in general, I only vaguely knew about a messed-up system of apartheid and The man 聯Nelson Mandela聰 both of which think I learnt in history class. \

It was annoying a bit only in the beginning. I soon realized that they, mainly kids, are innocent when they call me Jacky Chan. Weather kids or grown-ups, when they ask me lame questions regarding the above, it just could be they are just interested or just trying to be friendly and make a conversation.

So I try and do the best I can. but when it catches me in a not so great mood, I reply by saying 聯yeah I have a gold belt and Bruce lee was my uncle. I can snap your neck just like that.聰

By the way I am not talking about relatively educated plus open-minded with a fresh brain I hang out with. They know better and even if they don聮t they don聮t bother to ask coz they know it is so lame.

I am talking about relatively educated but with a parochial mind. But I am so over it now. I just mentioned some example about my case but it goes for more or less everyone and every country. there are certain type people who don聮t get much information except for from watching trashy tv programs. A lot of people don聮t even have a tv, which by the way is not entirely a bad thing. I don聮t have a tv. But you know what I mean.

My fellow 暗网禁区s! You guys are open-minded. You know better than pigeon holing which only blinds you to other characteristics that are there, even if you don聮t know much about places and people thereof.

Who knows actually! I have never been to Europe but I have met many people from Europe here in Cape Town or when I backpacked in asia and south America. It was a very enriching experience and great fun. but still I do not let them represent their country. It sure helps me have fond feelings those places though!

When I meet someone and they don聮t sound like a local I don聮t bother to ask where they are from. Maybe it is a good topic to kick start a conversation with but I would like it to come out naturally in the flow of conversation. they have been asked the question hundreds times anyway. it would be a lie if I say I have no stereotypical ideas , however mild, towards certain countries and I don聮t want them to get in the way so I don聮t ask, rather try to get to know him or her by listening to what they have to say.

Have you ever got comments, questions or been stereotyped that got your eyes rolling but you managed to smile feebly and politely? What are they?

Jess2010 Active member

Member since 10 April 2010

Jess2010Active member10 April 2010 21:18:51

I think stereotypes are pretty lame, anyway. I refuse to believe that everyone from a particular countries automatically does or doesn't certain things. That's just insane!

Here in the UK, I have - luckily - experienced very little stereotyping. My friends are very open-minded and don't tend to judge people simply because of what's written on my passport. The only instance when I was stereotyped was when my flatmates was saying something like "We MUST clean up after ourselves." He is a very narrow-minded person and doesn't care about anyone but himself. He comes home at four in the morning and starts yelling or talking loudly to his friends when he's drunk. Plus, he's always stealing my food or using my stuff.

So, anyway, he thought that simply because my passport says I'm German, I always want to clean up and can't say a sentence without "must". I hate that! It's just not true. Okay, one of my course mates is giving her flatmates are really hard time because she is trying to force them to clean up. But not everybody is like this. I'm not. I don't eat German food. I don't even know how to make any. I don't shop at Aldi but at Tesco's or Morrisons. I actually LOVE British food.

Miss Maple New member

Member since 20 October 2010

Miss MapleNew member25 November 2010 01:17:14

I experienced it a little bit here in Canada. I'm French and sometimes I feel like my country isn't on planet hearth. Maybe because of Canada being a bilingual country, they don't realise that I come from France when I say that I'm French. They think I am a Canadian who speaks French, or from Quebec, I don't really know what they think actually And then when I explain I'm from France, the automatic question is : 'oh are you from Paris?' ... I don't expect people to know the geography of France by heart (because I even don't know it...) but some Canadians don't know the difference between Paris and France. I experienced hard time trying to explain that Paris is a town and France a country and that I could come from Lyon and being French at the same time..
What is funny as well is when people ask me if I like French vanilla, french toasts and other 'french' things because most of the time we don't have these things in France...

laura92lopez Member

Member since 15 January 2011

laura92lopezMember16 January 2011 10:45:27

I as an American have been stereotyped too many times to count, even my own friends have done it.

My boyfriend's friends always speak to me in English even though I speak Russian and whenever we go out to eat they always suggest McDonald's first.

Its irritating because they think they know Americans just because they see what they are like in movies.

But with time you learn to ignore it...

HaileyinHongKong ViP

Member since 28 December 2010

HaileyinHongKongViP10 March 2011 16:02:34

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I'm from Minnesota.聽 Everybody I meet tries to talk to me like that movie "Fargo".聽 We don't talk like that, by golly.

annawang Active member

Member since 07 November 2008

annawangActive member18 March 2011 12:59:07

I am Filipino living in Vietnam close to three years.On my stay here and on my travels, foreigners I met would ask what I'm doing in Vietnam.They would either tell me I'm a househelp or an underground missionary.Also, this happened when I was in China for three years.