Hi everyone.
Ill kick off with just a brief explanation of excatly what a "stereotype" is. According to dictionary.com, a stereotype in the form I plan to use is "a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group: The cowboy and Indian are American stereotypes." (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stereotype). Oxforddictionaries.com states that it is "a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing" and "a person or thing that conforms to such an image".
That's the idea of the kind of stereotypes I will be discuessing, and laughing at, in this blog. There are many, many different kinds of stereotypes, and I will try and cover as many different types as possible.
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