Stereotypes and Prejudices

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English Mind Map on Stereotypes and Prejudices, created by Serafina D on 05/30/2015.
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Stereotypes and Prejudices
  1. Sunglass Analogy
    1. You see your culture wearing a sunglass. If you want to know a knew culture, you have to take of your sunglasses and put on the sunglasses of the new culture.
      1. You can not judge a culture based on your own standards
      2. Iceberg Theory of Cultures
        1. visible tip
          1. You can see just some parts of a culture
            1. Cooking, Games, Fine Art, Music, Dancing, Literatur, Cloth, Ideal of Beauty,architecture
            2. invisible
              1. Parts you can not so on the first view. They lay under the water surface
                1. worldviews, Ideas of Governing, Relationship to Animals, Conception of Justice, Incentives to Work, Theory of Diseas, Conception of Cleanliness, Nature of Friendship, Roles in Relation to Age, Sex, Calss, Occupation, Body Language, Social Interaction, etc.
              2. Stereotypes about British culture
                1. Food and drinking
                  1. Brits only eat fish and chips. Not true, they have a varied and healty diet.
                    1. Brits only eat roast beef. Roast dinners are still very popular, but are restricted to Sundays
                      1. Now: many restaurants in Birtain = reflects the cahnge of eating habits in Britain (Thai, Chines, Indian, Italien)
                        1. British people drink lots of tea: Ture, many british people do this
                        2. Social customs
                          1. Reputation for being very polite: quite true (there are also people qho choose not to bee respectful). Saying "please" ans "thank you" is normal
                            1. British people que up for everything in public: ture!
                              1. all British people speak the Queen's English: not true! People speak with a regional accent and use a dealect
                                1. humour is very important: ture! british people use a specific type of humour, based one sarcasm and irony
                                2. Free time
                                  1. British people go often to pubs: ture! Pubs are still important for the British to socialise and for drinking
                                    1. They love football and cricket: ture, but they also like rugby, tennis, horse racing and Formula 1 motor racing. Sport is very important to them and a basis of conversations
                                  2. Alpine Pride
                                    1. Stereotypes about Autrian: having a talent for improvisation, not following plans, beeing light-footed, showing off, being theatrical, more extroverted, culivated, polyglot
                                      1. Stereotypes about Germans: being more accurate, thorogh, fromal, punctual and dependable, keeping promises, being penny-pinching, inflexible, loud, less polite, more blunt, have little sense of humour
                                        1. Differences: Austrians ignor timetables. Austrian give private matter the highest priority. Austrian like to celebrate achievements. Feedback is important for Austrians. Austrian managers search for harmony and consensus. Personal relationships at work are more important for Austrians. Austrians are less likely to follow rules.
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