What is cultural stereotyping?
What is cultural stereotyping?
Generalizations become stereotypes when all members of a group are categorized as having the same characteristics. Stereotypes can be linked to any type of cultural membership, such as nationality, religion, gender, race, or age. Also, stereotypes may be positive or negative. For example, a positive stereotype would be “Participants from Country Y are good students” or “Host families in Country Z are great hosts to participants.”
Stereotypes, however, tend to be more negative than generalizations. Also, they are typically inflexible and resistant to new information. They can, and often do, lead to prejudice and intentional or unintentional discrimination. A negative stereotype may be “People from Country A are superficial.” Whereas cultural generalizations give us a starting point from which to continue learning about others, cultural stereotypes do not allow for individual difference and interfere with efforts to understand others
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