Nationality Stereotypes

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A stereotype is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person related to their race, nationality and sexual orientation…

Stereotype: a fixed idea or image that many people have of a particular type of person or thing, but which is often not true in reality.

The world is so different! There are so many nationalities; each has its own history, customs and traditions. Certainly people from diverse countries have dissimilar behavior, breeding, trait and characteristics. That is why we understand a word “stereotype” as the fixed conception that is generally characterize a person of some nationality. In my opinion we should not judge about a people or a group of people by stereotypes but nevertheless a certain stereotype does exist. There are many ways of investigating stereotypes. One of the most obvious is to ask people what trades characterizethe British, the Russians, the Americans and other nations.

The process of building stereotypes and prejudices is clear enough. In accordance with some historical events, mass media, folklore and the opinions of surrounding people we hang up the label on one or another nation. Thus we think about whole nation like one organism which behaves in one and the same way. To see the fallaciousness of that phenomenon is easy, you should turn around and assess people of your own nationality, and realize that they are all different, they react, feel, think and do everything in various ways. It demonstrates that stereotypes and prejudices are at most common, strained and frequently misrepresented.

A nation is a group of people who share common history and usually a language and usually, not always live at the same area. Culture can be described as our everyday life: how we communicate, our language, religion, traditions, behavior, way of life — in other words, what we do each day.

People that belong to various nations may differ and they always differ from one another. For example, the Germans are regarded as scientifically-minded and industrious, they’re always considered solid, intelligent, mathematical, extremely nationalistic, arrogant and even aggressive. And, for instance, Jews are believed to be mercenary, industrious, shrewd, loyal to family, religious. There is a big amount of examples we can list about national character of different people.

Proving the difference of the national stereotypes I want to compare Russian and English nations. There are a lot of features that vary. The Russians are industrious, tough, brave, progressive and suspicious. They are always considered to be nationalistic, patriotic, we are willing to respect opinion of other people.

Speaking about Englishmen I may note that they’re reserved, tradition-loving, courteous, honest, extremely nationalistic and etc. To my mind, they have a specific sense of humor. They say that they can’t understand our jokes and anecdotes not only because of the different meanings of the words, but because of their humor is more delicate.

Looking at these features of the Russians and the Englishmen it is not hard to mark out the differences. The Englishmen are reserved, but the Russians are open-hearted and communicative. The Englishmen are tradition-loving and the Russians, to my mind, don’t keep their traditions in such a degree.

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