Saturday, 20 November 2010

WORD OF THE WEEK: Stereotype

Noun [countable] /steriətaip/

1. A very firm and simple idea about what a particular type of person or thing is like
stereotype of: He certainly doesn’t fit the stereotype of the emotional Italian.

2. Someone who is exactly what many people expect a person of their particular class, nationality, profession etc to be like

3 comments:

  1. María Pilar Más Pesquero21 November 2010 at 20:33

    In some cases,in my opinion not all the stereotypes are certainly true but in some ocassions there is something true.For example : All mediterranean people are similar or all chinese people are similar.There are something as The weather and the countries fit with the estereotipeof person .

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  2. I agree whit Mª Pilar. In my opinion sometimes the stereotypes are true.

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  3. From my point of view if one stereotype is negative can do this group harm and not all are true.

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