# Are there any stereotypes which you resemble/match? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 9, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-stereotypes-which-you-resemble-match/714612 "2015-03-09T16:50:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-stereotypes-which-you-resemble-match/714612/61 "2015-03-13T18:55:32Z")
I’m from Bangalore and I… _sob_ work in IT. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-stereotypes-which-you-resemble-match/714612/62 "2015-03-14T02:26:33Z")
Ahem? Excuse me, I’m Canadian. Sorry, didn’t mean to interrupt. Also a history prof with beard, glasses, and tweed jackets, one with patches in elbows. It used to be ironic. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-stereotypes-which-you-resemble-match/714612/63 "2015-03-14T02:30:31Z")
I’m sorry, probably it should be patches ON elbows. But I’m not a hockey fan, and do not say “eh.” Nor do I chop down trees any more. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-stereotypes-which-you-resemble-match/714612/64 "2015-03-14T03:51:01Z")
You want to be really edgy, get some tweed patches and sew them onto a leather jacket. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-stereotypes-which-you-resemble-match/714612/65 "2015-03-14T04:01:42Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > 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. From my many years of being accepted in Indian-American communities, I can vouch for that. They will not even look at any gold less than 22 carats. Umm, what to say about me? I’m a Sicilian nonna and I bake my nonna’s old-country pizza recipe. I also share the old-country attitude that a Sicilian should always look her or his best when stepping out of the house, even if only to take out the garbage. (Seriously, after work the other night, I put off changing into more comfortable clothes until I’d taken out the trash, and when I realized the Sicilian ancestral values motivating my decision, I had a good laugh on myself.) ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-stereotypes-which-you-resemble-match/714612/66 "2015-03-14T04:43:16Z")
I’m losing weight, so I’m moving out of the overweight middle aged AA chick stereotype. I’ve lost 50 pounds since I moved back north by quitting most of the stereotypical soul foods. Fried chicken and fish…macaroni and cheese…potato salad…I eat a pre-portioned salad daily for lunch and usually have just yogurt for breakfast and fresh fruit for snacks. I log everything I eat and this works for me. **Watermelon is my favorite fruit.** I have **dreadlocks,** so people assume that I know where to get good weed and that I will smell of shea butter and incense. I stopped puffing when I went to college and realized that I didn’t have to follow the crowd. I’m a **good dancer** and I **keep the beat**. **I speak jive**. Because I’m over 50, many folks are shocked at the new musical artists I love. The last artist for whom I paid an amazing amount of money to see was Ellie Goulding. I had a ball at the show with my 20 something year old coworker. I love SciFi Fantasy over any other genre and I love Dr. Who. I would rather read than do almost anything else. I’m very outgoing and I’ll have a conversation with any stranger (not an angry Black woman) I’m in a long distance relationship with a guy from Wales and I speak a few lines in Welsh. People seem shocked that a White guy really likes me and my locs and that I’ve travelled there to see him twice so far. I don’t go to church and I am a pagan, and many are seriously shocked that I don’t like gospel music. I HATE Madea and those “plays” starring former R&B singers. I always hated Good Times and The Jeffersons. I hate The Browns and whatever else Madea as a man produces and directs. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-stereotypes-which-you-resemble-match/714612/67 "2015-03-15T02:09:03Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > You want to be really edgy, get some tweed patches and sew them onto a leather jacket. Thank you, I shall consider this. (Secretly shouting to self, "yes! I’m gonna put it to the man, man! I’m a rebel! I’ve always heard women go for the bad boys, now I’ll find out! Will I need a license for this?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-stereotypes-which-you-resemble-match/714612.md?page=3)