# confirming the sterotype **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 22, 2004, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confirming-the-sterotype/230551 "2004-02-22T22:27:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confirming-the-sterotype/230551/21 "2004-02-25T06:38:16Z")
I live in an apartment complex almost entirely populated by Mexicans. I often hear some of them blasting mariachi music from their cars at an extremely loud volume. I don’t know if it’s different people, or the same guy with the monster car stereo each time. But every time I hear it, I start cracking up because it’s so stereotypical. Well, I guess it’s not even stereotypical, per se, because the music is undeniably Mexican. But it’s kind of surreal, like I’m living in a cartoon where Mexicans wear sombreros, shake maracas and play mariachi music everywhere they go. ---
**Author:** ![Damage\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@Damage\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damage_1)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confirming-the-sterotype/230551/22 "2004-02-25T08:48:17Z")
I didn’t mean to be offensive in my original post. I guess it would have been funny if any women in her twenties didn’t know who Bill Gates was. (And for the record she was a born Canadian) But what was really funny/ironic was that these girls were great at picking out famous people that came into the club. I mean they made there living off the big spenders and here you have a girl that couldn’t recognize the worlds richest man. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confirming-the-sterotype/230551/23 "2004-02-25T09:24:54Z")
> [@Damage!](#): > > these girls were great at picking out famous people that came into the club. I mean they made there living off the big spenders and here you have a girl that couldn’t recognize the worlds richest man. Perhaps an example of how she _didn’t_ fit the stereotype? ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confirming-the-sterotype/230551/24 "2004-02-25T15:03:22Z")
My Dad is a Japanese tourist. So’s all his family. Dad wears loudly clashing clothes, a flat-brimmed net-backed baseball cap, and carries either binoculars or a camera. All my family was born in Canada, but Dad acts as though he doesn’t speak English when he’s on vacation. It’s not deliberate. I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confirming-the-sterotype/230551/25 "2004-02-25T15:41:19Z")
When I saw _Jurassic Park_ in the theater, a friend of mine happened to be there as well. We both work in IT (for different departments), and as we walked out, I asked him if the character of Nedry, the stereotypically geeky computer guy who stole the dinosaur embryos, reminded him of anyone. He looked at me and said: “You’re thinking of XXXXX, right?”, naming an IT guy who works in another department. I said, “You got it in one”, because this guy resembles Nedry to the last detail… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confirming-the-sterotype/230551.md?page=1)