Another: Jewish people aren’t good at sports.
It was enough of a stereotype that it was a joke in Airplane (the flight attendant giving a book of Jewish Sports heroes to a passenger, and it being very short).
There are, of course, plenty of professional Jewish athletes, and there always have been. In fact, Jewish people were predominant in boxing in the first 40 years of the 20th century.
think about all the variables a QB has to calculate in just 3 seconds while 300-lb guy is 5 feet away from you trying to hurt you, doesn’t that take a lot of intelligence?
It is very well established that as a general rule, at least physically, girls do enter puberty and mature earlier than boys. Whether that is true from a mental and social aspect is much more complicated and in doubt
Quarterbacks – especially at the pro level – are probably an exception to the rule of having the “dumb jock” stereotype applied to them, at least among people who understand the sport. (People who don’t follow football and/or don’t like sports might well lump QBs in with all other athletes in the stereotype).
Even so, there have been some NFL quarterbacks (some successful, some unsuccessful) who were generally seen (accurately or not) as not necessarily being particularly intelligent: e.g., Brett Favre, JaMarcus Russell, etc.
“Literature professors are obsessed with finding symbolism and hidden meanings.” Most of the ones I’ve met are more interested in narrative, prosody, social/cultural context, reception history, and so on.
And the associated, and incredibly racist, stereotype that Black people don’t make good quarterbacks because that position does require intelligence, not just brawn.
No counterexamples, because anyone who believes that stereotype has even a grain of truth can just go open a pit thread on themselves now.
That one has probably faded quite a bit, thanks to the success of players like Patrick Mahomes, Russell Wilson, Lamar Jackson, etc., though I have no doubt that there are still some troglodyte football fans out there who still believe in that stereotype.
But, when I was a young person in the '70s and '80s, it was absolutely in force, to the point that it seems like it was “conventional wisdom” among both fans and NFL executives. The few black quarterbacks in the NFL back then (such as Doug Williams) were seen as being highly athletic, but their intelligence was overtly questioned. And, many promising black quarterbacks were shunted into other positions, in part for that very reason.
My high school was 60% Jewish when I attended. 90% of my friends were Jewish. Only two came from homes that kept kosher. But West L.A. is kinda known for being quite liberal.
Most Italians are not involved in the Mafia.
“People these days are always staring at their phones while walking down sidewalks.”
MIne will be a mundane one, but I have learned that fruitcake can be good.
What no political stereotypes to bust?
All Republicans watch Fox News.
All Democrats voted for Hillary.
All conservatives are MAGA.
All liberals are socialists.
All politicians #1 goal is reelection.
All business people are MAGA.
All Democrats eat pets and are pedophiles.
I’m a conservative, but definitely not MAGA. I can’t stand Trump.
And not all homosexuals are liberal. A male friend of mine is gay, conservative, and the biggest Trump supporter I’ve ever met.
But you think the rest are true?
Personally, I kind of question how many of those really qualify as established “stereotypes”. They’re sweeping generalizations, sure, but IMHO a “stereotype” needs a certain amount of across-the-board cultural embedding rather than just being an ideological shibboleth of one partisan group.
The closest thing in that list to a recognized cultural stereotype, if you ask me, is the one about all politicians prioritizing reelection. The rest is either just a not-very-drastic statistical exaggeration (for example, something like 90-95% of Democratic voters in 2016 did vote for Hillary), or obvious partisan hyperbole.
Very few people say “all”- the claim, the stereotype is that an overwhelming percentage are whichever. I can say 'trump voters are okay with bigotry". I am sure a few are not. But that is the way to bet.
Many people like fruitcake, that was just a joke that got out of hand. I like fruitcake. Mind you-I dont LOVE fruitcake.
The rest have some validity, but adding the word “all” makes them all false.
Good points.
One stereotype I have always thought to be truer than true is that Asians (in the US) can’t drive for shit. I’m Asian, and while I think I’m a pretty good driver, all too often it seems that my Asian brethren drive like idiots. In fact, however, I think it’s just confirmation bias: I see a crappy driver and I look to see if the driver is Asian. If so, stereotype confirmed. If not, well then, not. Lately I’ve been thinking about it with a more open mind, and I’m concluding that people in general - of ALL ethnicities - are crap drivers.
This may be getting more into more risky race-psychology stuff, but I’ve long felt that one’s upbringing in childhood leads to better or worse development in certain cerebral realms. I’ve known athletic people who were superb at motor skills but lagged behind in intellectual/academic matters, and conversely, many Asians - like you said - excel in academics but were often cooped up at home, discouraged from playing video games, discouraged from playing sports, and as a result, tend to perform worse in things like spatial-speed-movement physical tasks like driving or sports. I’m Asian myself, and almost every Asian I’ve known to be a bad driver, was someone who was very good at academics, and you have to wonder if the brain was forced to prioritize one realm over the other in childhood and adolescence.
In one area i lived, we had a lot of fairly recent Vietnamese immigrants, and yes- many were bad d rivers. But I was talking to one lady, and she pointed out that at age 40, that was the first time she had driven. She then asked me when i first drove, and it was like when I was kid, my Dad would let me pull the car into the driveway, and I was driving and I had my own car when still in High school. So, I then understood- but they werent being crazy speedsters or reckless- just over cautious. So, in some cases, some justification for the stereotype. But it isnt being Asian, it is how long you had been driving.