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Stereotypes

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Stereotypes get hold of the ‘type’ and reduce everything about this person to those traits, exaggerate and simplify them, and fix them without change or development to eternity. Through stereotyping the “dominant group applies their norms to subordinated groups, find the latter wanting, hence inadequate, inferior, sick or grotesque and hence reinforcing the dominant groups’ own sense of the legitimacy of their information.” (Dyer, 1977)

Bounty

Race-ism

Geel van buiten en wit van binnen; Etnische Zakenvrouw van het Jaar — Den Haag FM

Over Anchou Zhang zegt de jury onder meer “een banaan die heel goed geïntegreerd is, geel van buiten en wit van binnen”, “de mens staat bij Anchou centraal” en “een ondernemer met winnaarsmentaliteit.”

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Butt

Stereotypes

Meghan Trainor’s “bass”

Stereotypes

De Efteling’s “Monsieur Cannibale”

Stereotypes

‘Adios Amigos’

Black face, White wash

Reversing the stereotype

The construct of race

French TV-Experiment Dans la peau d’une noir

A black family's transformation into a white family by professional make up.

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Stereotypes

White people

Yannis Pitsiladis’ “White men can run”

Monkey

New York Post’s Monkey

Black face, White wash

Beyoncé Knowles: L’Oreal accused of ‘whitening’ singer in cosmetics ad

Beyonce as a blonde and light skinned in L'Oréal ad

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White people

Grow Your Own Redneck

Found in Recordstore Waterloo, Austin (TX), October 28, 2007

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Butt

Movieposter: A league of their own

Reversing the stereotype

Watermelon

Stereotype: Watermelon

Outta Season. March 1969

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