Clichés and Prejudices

Hey guys!

 

I was reading an article the other day in the magazine Spotlight and it talks about clichés, mostly about the american ones. I thought you might be interested because it's a topic which includes everbody of us. Some clichés or prejudices are true but some are not and I think it's pretty important to know the difference between truth or false.

Basically what it says is that the author, Daniéle Janovsky, was very impressed that everything seemed so different like she expected. When she thought of New England she always thought of the land of the Pilgrim Fathers and the Boston Tea Party. When she arrived she just saw a lot of highways but she kept being optimistic and this turned out to be right thing to do.

It is also said that the Europeans are so arrogant when they talk about the USA. I think that's a cliché which dies hard. As other clichés are mentioned that Germany is seen as a 'barbaric' country and all the French people are pretty arrogant.

What shocked me most was that people think the Americans have no culture. Culture can be seen in many different ways and it doesn't only consists of Latin or Greek and something like this. America has simply its own culture and this doesn't depends on any definitions.

Some clichés are of course true, like

everything is bigger in the USA. For example the shopping malls, the cars and even the women. Maybe they are a little bit prude, because men wear long trousers to the beach and the women would never go topless. But they are very tolerant with all the sexualitys.

In my opinion nobody should judge someone or something if he isn't sure it's the truth or false and even if it's true, it doesn't have to be a bad thing. So simple! So, what do you think about it?

Regards, Katja