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Stereotypes

Stereotypes

  • Punk subculture
    The punk subculture, which centres on punk rock music, includes a diverse array of ideologies, fashions and forms of expression, including visual art, dance, literature and film.
  • Goth subculture
    The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture found in many countries.
  • Beatnik
    Beatnik was a media stereotype prevalent throughout the 1950s to mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s.
  • New Russians
    (See also: New Russia (disambiguation)) New Russians (Novye Russkie, Russian: новые русские) is a term for the newly rich business class in post-Soviet Russia.
  • Grotesque
    Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), grotesque (or grottoesque) has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, fantastic, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks.
  • Yuppie
    Yuppie (/ˈjʌpi/; short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional") is a term that was introduced in the early 1980s and is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as an individual who is a "member of a socio-economic group comprising young professional people working in cities.
  • Fashion victim
    Fashion Victim is a term claimed to have been coined by Oscar de la Renta that is used to identify a person who is unable to identify commonly recognized boundaries of style.
  • Gamer
    A gamer is someone who plays interactive games, usually video games, although games can also come in other forms, such as tabletop or physical games (in some countries, such as the United Kingdom, the term "gaming" can also refer to legalized gambling, which can take both traditional—i.e. tabletop—and digital forms—akin to video games).
  • LGBT stereotypes
    Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) stereotypes are conventional, formulaic generalizations, opinions, or images based on the sexual orientations or gender identities of LGBT people.
  • Stereotype embodiment theory
    Stereotype embodiment theory (SET) is a theoretical model first posited by psychologist Becca Levy to explain the process by which age stereotypes influence the health of older adults.
  • Red hair
    Red hair occurs naturally in 1–2% of the human population.
  • Catholic guilt
    Catholic guilt is an expression used to identify the reported excess guilt felt by Catholics and lapsed Catholics.
  • Tartanry
    Tartanry is the kitsch elements of Scottish culture that have been over-emphasised or super-imposed on the country, first by the emergent Scottish tourist industry in the 18th and 19th centuries, and later by an American film industry.
  • Implicit stereotype
    An implicit stereotype is the unconscious attribution of particular qualities to a member of a certain social group.
  • The Streets of Cairo, or the Poor Little Country Maid
    "The Streets of Cairo, or the Poor Little Country Maid", also known as "the snake charmer song", is a well-known melody in the United States.