Bratwurst Boy
19 Jan 2009
History / Question about Post WW2 Polish Jews etc [42]
Nope...stereotypes developed over long periods of times between many peoples. Of course they generalize percieved differences. But all have them. There is nothing wrong with it...
Was the aim to exclude and to ridicule? Not always...there are positive and negative stereotypes but all have a core of truth to them!
Who would have be the one telling the "lie" often enough? That might be true in today's globalized internet world that someone might be successfull with a slandering or PR campaign but the stereotypes we speak about developed over centuries...
I for example know the stereotypes about Germans, we have positive and negative ones and both are not that far off the truth!
I disagree. Sterotypes and prejudices derive from the ways in which perceived cultural differences are socially constructed in an exaggerated and simplistic form with the aim of exclusion and ridicule.....a self defence mechansim for those with inferiority complex whether as individuals or as a nation
Nope...stereotypes developed over long periods of times between many peoples. Of course they generalize percieved differences. But all have them. There is nothing wrong with it...
Was the aim to exclude and to ridicule? Not always...there are positive and negative stereotypes but all have a core of truth to them!
Who was it that said something along the lines if you tell a lie often enough it becomes a truth?
That is how stereotypes work!
That is how stereotypes work!
Who would have be the one telling the "lie" often enough? That might be true in today's globalized internet world that someone might be successfull with a slandering or PR campaign but the stereotypes we speak about developed over centuries...
I for example know the stereotypes about Germans, we have positive and negative ones and both are not that far off the truth!