Cultural Stereotypes

Meet junior! A scrawny aboriginal kid from the spokane tribe with a big head,glasses and a lisp.
Your initial thoughts of junior are most likely that he's poor, most likely grow up to be an alcoholic and weird. Presumably you wouldn't have ever imagined that he is a passionate cartoonist, intelligent and a talented basketball player. You have unconsciously completely dismissed any other defining Qualities this person may acquire.

If you rely on stereotypes alone You have probably only ever perceived people like junior as poor drunks that love to gamble what little money they have and dance around fires. That's it.That's what an indian is like and always be in your perspective.

Cultural stereotypes spring from truths but do not paint
communication and diversity become limited between people and we are divided and alienated from one another. It can be difficult to present your true nature to someone when they have a previously built perception of what your like, whether it be negative or positive. We already think we know what other people are like without even communicating with them. The europeans never really gave the indians a chance to get to know and understand their culture a bit more but immediately decided that indians were rather savage and began developing methods to try and assimilate them into their society and when failed to do so provided them lands in the middle of nowhere far away from the european settlements, ultimately dividing the country and its people. We are only really just starting to become familiar with Aboriginal culture and aboriginals themselves and the struggles that we've caused them. Both cultures couldve greatly benefited from each other but weren't] able to due to their prejudice precieved images of each other

In the end we can conclude that stereotypes are simply ideas, assumptions about a group of people,not facts. They also usually cover