Could people share with me racial stereotypes they’ve heard, pretty please!!! (I’m coming up blank) Both negative and positive…need examples for my speech.
Thank-you
Oh, and if people know reasons for them, that might be useful too…
EDIT: Thank-you to all who have provided me with fodder. It is very much appreciated, specially on such an ugly topic. The speech writing continues…
Bigotry R Us
Whingeing poms. Those Chinese live 20 to a room but they work hard. Jews and Scots are tight with money. The Japanese are brainy, obsessed with gadgets and a bunch of perverts. All Arabs are terrorists. French and Italian men are great lovers.
That do to be going on with?
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Oh … and there’s no such thing as a positive stereotype. Even if it sounds good, it’s still a discriminatory statement.
oh jeez
I’m not saying any of these are true, they’re just stereotypes!
Let’s see, there’s always the penis size myth? (ie blacks are big, asians are small?)
Jewish mothers nag a lot, Jewish people are stingy and money obsessed (this dates back to the middle ages when Jews were the only people who could do do money lending because it went against christian morals or something)
Asians are smart/quiet/obedient/sneaky/good at math/science
I dont even want to go into American stereotypes about Blacks/Hispanics/Middle Easterners because they are too horrible…
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Yeah, that’s part of my point – that even if they think it’s a positive assumption, it’s still discrimination and still violating the right to be treated equally. Which is why I wanted positive as well…like the great lovers one.
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Does it have to be racial? ‘Coz if you just want stuff that sounds good, then remember that gay men are soooo creative 🙂
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And lesbians are going to come onto every female friend they’ve ever had!
Yeah, just going with the racial today!
Gwai-lo are all big, graceless, loud and stupid. Abos are all petrol sniffing mongrels. Gooks are all involved in the heroin gangs. Negroes all have giant dicks. Chinks all know martial arts.
i always liked (and by “liked,” i mean “loathe”) racial stereotypes…. let’s see about some that haven’t already been said, sans the ones that might not be “horrible” (re: african americans, hispanics, and m.e.’erners)
~native americans are either poor, dirty alcoholics that sell turqouise jewelry by the road, or they are mystical shamans that wear blue jeans, plaid shirts, braid their hair, use “peace-pipes,” and speak in the third person, or own casinos in phoenix.
~indians/pakistani speak with the same stupid accent, and either own convenient stores, and wear turbins and/or red bindi dots, or are outrageously rich surgeons/doctors. their children are incredibly smart at spelling bees.
besides the aforementioned chinese/general east asian sterotypes, many people have a legitimate fear of what they call the “yellow peril,” which is basicaly the idea that the chinese are bent on world domination and control at any human cost.
maybe these aren’t races, but:
the british are snobby and blue blooded. or all are femme metrosexuals with bad teeth.
the french stink, are snobby and hate americans
the germans are still nazis underneath
americans are fat and stupid and have bad entertainment
russians are burly, ugly, vodka-drinkers who couldn’t possibly fuck up there country any more.
if i think of anymore…. i’ll letcha know.
does anyone else feel wierd about writing all these down…. like you’ve done something wrong by putting these hateful things into your own words?
in the first sentence…. i said “might not be horrible”… i meant to say “might be too horrible.” that deserves correction.
Australians are beer-guzzling sports fanatics that ride kangaroos to work.
Wow…ten comments and not a single Pollock crack. Everybody knows they’re all weak, stupid wankers that are always drunk on cheap booze and will screw their moms, daughters, livestock or a hole in the wall, just so that they pop out enough of their retarded dirt-children to get conquered during the next European war.
There’s also stuff like the sheep-fucking Scot, the whiskey- or Guinness-drunk Irish-terrier who’s looking for a fight when he’s not guardin’ his pot o’ gold or choking on a potato, and the snail-eating Frog who chain smokes, wears a beret, a striped shirt and a greasy curled mustache who hasn’t bathed since birth.
Don’t forget terminology like “Jungle Bunny” and “Coon” when referring to people of African descent. It’s really just a leftover envy at the size of their penises, how good they are at sports, and how they can all play the bass guitar. That’s okay, we’ve got them contained to the ghettos now where they can kill each other in gang wars, fry their brains on crack cocaine, and leave seven babies by seven different women on welfare.
And let’s not forget the dirty Mexicans. They’re all drunk, lazy wetback, cockroaches who oogle white girls and stink like refried beans. There’s a reason that their Olympic team never wins–all the ones who can run, jump or swim are in the US. But there’s one sure way to get rid of ’em if you really want to–starve the bastards by hiding their food stamps under their work boots.
Yeah, I’m from the south. I took in racism with my mother’s milk. Thankfully I had the sense to puke it back up on her…
She said stereotypes, cobber, not facts.
Ooh! And don’t forget that the Germans are also lederhosen beer-swilling porn fiends who dig scheize-videos and write screaming operas…
Germans have no sense of humour and have to have things run on time
French are arrogant esp to the English and all the women are really skinny despite eating chocolate eclaires and coissants for every meal
Austrians are like Germans but with a sense of humour
Columbians are all involved in smuggling weather it be drugs emeralds or especially fine coffee
Americans are so arrogant that they believe the cultural beliefs of other countries are not to be respected.
Aussies are surfing beach bums
New Zealanders get very cosy with sheep
Islanders are are really large and really strong and all have really violent tempers
Hows that for a little list….
hey, i fully empathise with the feeling icky about putting it down..but it is a HUGE help to me. i am freaking out something huge about this friggin speech. Would like to say I’ll post it so people can see what they’ve helped with, but a lot of what I’m saying, I provide no support for – in my mind it’s fluffy bad writing, but it’s gotta be translated into japanese, and japanese speeches seem to be full of fluff. Maybe I’ll post it….I just know so many of my friends would find 101 things wrong with it and then I may feel complete shame that I did such a bodgy job.
and all have koalas as pets.
oh, and the beer du jour is Fosters *chuckles* I love that one!
Shhh.. I’d been doing a great job here convincing everyone that was just a myth. Damn!
Impressive
Wow – I think you got my quota of stereotypes as well (I’d been wondering where it went an why I couldn’t think of any)
Would love to see you talking with people who actually believe this shit, them thinking you’re all down with it and you totally turning their arguements inside out and twisting them around their small narrow minds. Twould be a sight to behold.
I think you have enough, so I just wanted to comment.
The only discrimination that has ever affected me, I think, has been over religion, from the social group I spend most of my time in.
That’s right, I am a Christian – which seems to be a dirty word in the vocabulary of most roleplayers.
🙂
Dude, does that mean I get to ride a kangaroo when I go to Sydney in December? I am looking forward to a shower of koalas raining down on my head!
Yeha, you gotta be careful of the drop bears!
I’m having guilt about the fact that one used to be ‘all asians are bad drivers’ and coming back from beijing I see nothing to counter that theory… except for maybe thorfy