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American Stereotypes

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Are the British (specifically, the English) aware that Americans stereotype them as very as intelligent, well-spoken, logical, classy people?

Whenever the British are portrayed in US media by American actors, they're always shown as refined, distinguished, Sherlock-Holmesian individuals. Are people from Britain aware that this is how Americans see them?

Americans stereotype Australians as tough guys. Hence, characters like "Crocodile Dundee", or Kano from the latest
"Mortal Kombat" (yes, that's how it's spelled) movie. Are there any Australians here, and do know this is how Americans see you as?

Americans view the Chinese as studious academics. with a strong sense of honor.

I already know that the UK (and the whole world) see Americans as bloody idiots, and as fat, arrogant, jingoistic people. Apart from those, are there any other types you guys have about Americans?


Americans wear cowboy hats, drink gravy by the cup and shoot guns for amusement.
English have different classes. The Hello types and 'ello guvnor kind.
Australians don't play hockey because the puck doesn't explode.

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@vivify said
Apart from those, are there any other types you guys have about Americans?
I would not go as far as to say that it's a stereotype, per se, but it's happened enough times to me make me think I have encountered at least one of the American templates; I'll give one illustrative example which might also encapsulate one of the British character templates when it interacts with an American template of this kind...

I had a beer or three in a cafe with a U.S. airforce trainer of some kind who was on secondment to a nearby academy here in Indonesia.

We had a long, lively chat about this and that, at the end of which I knew seemingly everything about him, how long he'd been at the academy and what his job was, all the U.S. states and cities he had lived in, what countries he'd been to, what he thought of Canadians, what he thought of British people and the RAF, what he liked and disliked, what he thought and didn't think; I got to know who he had voted for in the previous however-many elections he had been old enough to vote in, and EVEN who his parents had voted for stretching back to the 1950s. I don't think I'd specifically asked for any of this information.

I eventually went home and we parted in a friendly way.

If someone had then sidled up to him and asked about that rather handsomely hirsute Brit he'd been talking to, this loquacious American airman would have realized that he knew virtually nothing about me. He didn't know my name; he didn't know if I had a family; he didn't know how I earned a living; he didn't know how long I'd been in Indonesia; he didn't know what countries I'd lived in; he didn't really know my opinion about anything substantial.

I'd have told him any of these things: if he'd asked.

It's not the only time this kind of thing has happened and I'll make of it what I will.


@FMF

You're not handsome 😐


Before there were stereotypes were there monotypes, then hifitypes
Are there quadrophonictypes?

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@gambrel said
Before there were stereotypes were there monotypes, then hifitypes
Are there quadrophonictypes?
Actually the term is now 100 years old and has been introduced by Walter Lippmann in his book "Public Opinion".

So much earlier than the stereophony, which came up in the 50's.



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You do not know me.

At all.

And that is only a good thing. Because if you did know me, I'm sure you'd think of something derogatory, closer to my core, and your slings and arrows would land closer, and that might actually hurt my feelings. As it is, your most loathsome attacks are mostly laughable.


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Yes, I know you're full of anecdotes.

Too bad more of them aren't true.


How long, I wonder, before FMF rolls up in here to defend his conjoined twin?

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@suzianne said
Yes, I know you're full of anecdotes.Too bad more of them aren't true.
Did the American "template" I talked about - the U.S. airforce trainer I met here in Indonesia - resonate with you at all?



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You clearly don't know me.

As I said, the best you have is laughable.


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Interesting. Maybe Americans don't notice it when they do it to each other. I would not describe him as an "ass hole". He was a personable chap. I've met a fair few like him. The Americans who pass through my neck of the woods are for the most part nice folks.