I’m an Asian man in my 20s who wears glasses and very much resembles the “Asian nerd/geek” stereotype. I don’t know much about math or science and didn’t study engineering in college, but somehow happen to know enough trivia facts about STEM, aerospace, medicine, etc. that I could probably pass for a scientist-type of person at first glance. I tend to wear slacks and polo shirts, and there have been times when people asked if I was an engineer.
What about you guys - are there any stereotypes which you intentionally or unintentionally resemble/match?
First tell me what the stereotypes are for E. Indian women in the States. Genuinely. I don’t have much idea.
I do wear a lot of yellow (read: 22K) gold, if that’s anything.
Apparently Navarrese, and specially people from Pamplona, and PTV (a specific group within Pamplona) more so, have a reputation for… depending on who you ask, being “people of our word” or “being such stubborn gits that they do exactly whatever they’ve said they’ll do, even if and when others were sure it was impossible”.
There are worse stereotypes to match (mind you, we also do not agree to do anything that we don’t see as doable - it’s only that some of us have notions of “doable” which apparently differ from those of people with lesser imaginations)
We are also totally not full of ourselves or anything. At all.
I resemble a middle age white guy who should belong to the Tea Party even though I half Mexican. Sometime I feel like Eddie Murphy in the skit where he becomes a white guy. You just wouldn’t believe the things people say to me sometimes; I’ve even been told that I could join the Klan. :eek:
I look like the hoopie that I am. I favor sleeveless t-shirts. I shave my head but generally have a day or two worth of stubble on my face. I have tattoos. I have a hoopie twang that I must actively suppress when I talk. I ride a motorcycle that is nicer than my house. The only places I drift from type is that I don’t use smokeless tobacco or wear gimme caps.
Except for maybe my hair, I am a fine specimen of a butch lesbian. However, I am not a lesbian.
Aging hip lesbian. Former bartender in West Coast gay dance scene. Still wear a lot of black. Salt-and-pepper hair that stands up. I have a son, borne late in life, via AI. Lots of ex’s, no partner. Marginally employed. Medicated. Have dog.
Do you drive a Subaru?
No, but I *do *drive an SUV. With a Subaru, I’d be perfect.
You know those old pictures of the red-cheeked, blonde-braided, buxom Bavarian bier garten wenches? Well that’s me.
I am multiracial (African-American, Argentine, Dutch, French, and a couple of other things that rear their heads the further back you go) and don’t believe I fit into any stereotypes. I have a very fair complexion and have been mistaken for Middle-Eastern (especially at airports), Puerto Rican, and Dominican). I also have weird hair, always have, although it has become a little more uniform and easier to manage since my two hair transplant surgeries.
I am a partner and co-founder of a company that provides scientific and medical content, compliance services, and digital delivery systems for the pharmaceutical industry.
Is there a stereotype for multiracial people?
Mutts.
That is a description, not a stereotype.
I’m a geologist that prefers casual, comfortable clothing, earth tones mainly. Suits me. I can open any kind of bottle with a rock hammer and don’t drive close behind me because I brake for roadcuts.
Software engineer, here; socially incompetent and bad taste in music.
Klutzy Polack with no sense of direction
The middle aged guy who’s emotionally inhibited and drinks too much? Yeah, that one.
The son of a working class father, who studied liberal arts and eventually got a job earning a salary way higher than dad ever dreamed, doing a job dad would never understand, and who really wishes his dad would have known how much he wanted to be like him, but now dad is gone and son is broken up about it? Yeah, that one too.
Me, too. I dressed up as a “beer wench” one year for Halloween, and it looked natural. I think next year I’ll wear one of those horned Viking helmets and go as an opera singer.
We should start a club!
The only black person stereotype I fit is the fried chicken one. But most people like fried chicken, so I don’t think that counts.
LOL!! Indeed we should. I quite often do the Brunhilde/Wagnerian soprano viking costume myself. I alternate with my Killer Tomato costume, but that’s another story altogether.