Stereotypes

National Sterotypes
Young learners - especially teenage learners - are at the point in their life when they are developing their own ideas about the world around them, especially the world beyond their immediate surroundings. Learning from their elders, media and teachers, young adults pick up a lot of stereotypes about other nations. Helping them come to terms with stereotypes, and recognize that stereotypes do contain some truth, but also can not be applied across the board, is central to this lesson. The lesson also helps them improve their descriptive adjective vocabulary while they discuss perceived differences between nations through stereotypes.

Stereotypes
Choose two adjectives that you think describe the nationalities listed below. Choose two countries of your own to describe.

• punctual
• tolerant
• romantic
• respectful
• hard-working
• emotional • outgoing
• nationalistic
• well-dressed
• humorous
• lazy
• sophisticated • hospitable
• talkative
• sociable
• serious
• quiet
• formal • aggressive
• polite
• rude
• arrogant
• ignorant
• casual
American
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British
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French
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Japanese
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Peruvian
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