cultural stereotype
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- noun
- /ˈkʌltʃərəl ˈstɛrɪəˌtaɪp/
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estereotipo cultural
- Many popular films reinforce negative cultural stereotypes about certain groups.
- negative cultural stereotypes
- effects of cultural stereotypes
It just is a non human intelligence that kind of fits our cultural stereotype of a demon.
- It just is a non human intelligence that kind of fits our cultural stereotype of a demon.
- Or were they really reading race, class and gender and making decisions based on cultural stereotypes?
Examples
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Some of the most convincing research on the effect of negative cultural stereotypes has been done by Claude Steele, a psychologist at Stanford University.
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Such are the effects of entrenched cultural stereotypes.
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For this, women had to overcome barriers created by social and cultural stereotypes.
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Both nations are working to overcome social and cultural stereotypes regarding the types of education and careers appropriate to each gender.
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But what's remarkable to me is this, those cultural stereotypes kind of melt away because there is a desire to know and to be known.
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Cultural stereotypes are one prominent explanation for the gender gap in science and mathematics.
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Had he known about the cultural stereotypes of his English colleagues, the embarrassing miscommunication might have been avoided.
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Although gradually changing among more educated people, conservative Turkish society holds traditional socio-cultural stereotypes and attitudes about the role of women.
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But, although racial and ethnic identity can be something to celebrate, we must be careful to prevent cultural appreciation from evolving into cultural stereotypes that marginalize individuals or become weapons of political control.
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In 2007, a film review appeared in Maclean's magazine entitled "The Last Taboo: Geriatric Romance." The title itself encapsulates the cultural stereotype that views old age and romantic love as incongruous.
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Synonyms
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A fixed, simple idea about a group of people or things that is often wrong
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A simple, harmful idea about a group of people
An unfair, simple idea about a group of people that can hurt them
How Accurate
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is directly compositional: 'cultural' (relating to a society's customs) modifies 'stereotype' (an oversimplified fixed belief), yielding an oversimplified belief about a cultural group. This is a common, literal combination found across languages and in English collocations, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Cultural stereotype comes from the old printing word stereotype, a metal plate used to print the same picture again and again, so it came to mean a fixed, repeated image. So a cultural stereotype is like a single, too-simple picture of a whole culture, an unfair idea that treats many people the same.