In conclusion, are stereotypes, prejudice and racism a result of collectivism? Since we often don’t stereotype or show any negative pre-notions towards our own “group”, I personally believe that collectivism does remove the factor that people should not be grouped but treated individually. By adopting a group mind-set, it can perpetuate racism. For ( Read more... )

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Some of the messages portrayed in this video:

"Kill Christians"
"Islam is evil and believes in murder"
"Jesus is LORD not Allah"
"Jews Suk"
"Islam is Evil. Christ is King"

This collaboration presents an interesting entrance of individualism and collectivism to hate crimes. If culture (and by culture, I mean the country, the province, the family we grow ( Read more... )

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In Detroit, a black man was killed for holding a VCR remote (gun?).
A man was killed for holding a hairclip (gun?) and even a spatula (gun?).
4 police shot 41 bullets at a man for holding a wallet (all 4 saw a gun?).
Michael Moore stages a switch from people's old wallets to BRIGHT orange
wallets. Jerome Richardson was shot for holding his keys ( ( Read more... )

   Surprisingly, I had a job interview with a company on Friday that touched on gender stereotypes. My program requires a mandatory co-op placement and I am in a mainly male program. Thus, 70% of my class is male.

During the interview, one of the gentlemen asked me "How would you deal with giving someone bad news? For instance, if they were ( Read more... )

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Canadians love Hockey....
Canadians like Tim Hortons...

As Rick Mercer says "the notion that is if you don't, something's wrong with you."

Canadians are too passive and polite.

Mercer: "You can never be too polite...sometimes, we can be too passive."

Newfoundlanders have the most sex in this country (except there is statistical evidence to back this up ( Read more... )

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" I have never, ever seen an Asian person in a car accident. I always see them driving away! 'What is all the honking about? White people can't drive.'" Very common stereotype and indeed, I must wonder if I also hold this prejudice. I was once driving in a blizzard and stopped for a car that looked as though it had driven directly off the ravine on ( Read more... )

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Note: In this video, Russell Peters says that:

"Here's the thing with Indian parents. They never tell you directly to do something.....like, hey, come here! Because they have salesman built into them.  No matter what the situation, they feel the need to convince you to do something."

"Tonight we will become Canadians.....Son, I have bought a barbeque ( Read more... )

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1. Joke about drunken group of men picking on him for his "fancy" scarf and assuming he is gay. He rolls with the stereotype that men who wear nice scarfs must be gay 0:00 to 4:36.

Again, where are we getting these ideas? That any male with fashion sense must be gay?

My fiance enjoys watching Just for Laughs Gags because he is a bit of a prankster himself. Tonight there was a gag in which an actor sees a $20 under the front passenger tire of a vehicle. The gag is that he asks someone to help him lift up the car (as if?) and the side panel comes off, setting off the alarm. Here's where the stereotype comes in. A ( Read more... )

   The most frustrating gender stereotype I have heard over and over again is that females, as a whole, don't know how to drive (or at least accurately). An aquintenance of mine always likes to point out that when a driver does something wrong, it must be a female. Although many times, I have clearly indicated that it was indeed a male, not a ( Read more... )