cultural stereotype

collocation in English

meaningsofculturalandstereotype

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cultural
adjective
uk
/ˈkʌl.tʃər.əl/
us
/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ.əl/
relating to the habits, traditions, and beliefs of ...
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stereotype
noun[C]
uk
/ˈster.i.ə.taɪp/
us
/ˈster.i.ə.taɪp/
a set idea that people have about what someone or something is like, especially an idea that ...
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(Definition ofculturalandstereotypefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcultural stereotype

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Relating women to their bodies is aculturalstereotype.
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Paradoxically, the strategy draws on aculturalstereotypethat demeans old age and older people.
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As the presentation of white-collar work in these publications transcended employment variables to repeatedly empty out the content of practical working procedure, theculturalstereotypeof corporate uniformity was maintained.
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Nikander concluded that an analysis of the conversation of older people illustrates a resistance to theculturalstereotypeof older people as dependent and fragile by older people themselves.
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Society will start to form expectations about those groups once theculturalstereotypeis secured.
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This is evident when cultural stereotypes become self-fulfilling prophecies.
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In other words, our approach rests on the assumption that the patient and the provider are unique self-defining individuals rather than fixed cultural stereotypes.
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While the skits with the character musically provided reading and writing concepts, critics found his jive-talking to be aculturalstereotype, and the producers of the series removed him.
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By portraying the ageing process in positive or negative terms, they can also reinforce or challenge cultural stereotypes of ageing.
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Nicknames may also be derived externally as the result of cultural stereotypes; thus, sources may include place of origin, profession, or physical appearance.
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Surfing to cross-cultural awareness: using inter net-mediated projects to explore cultural stereotypes.
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The process invoked a social and constructivist model of learning and created a sense of continuing discovery which helped challenge cultural stereotypes.
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Despite these popular cultural stereotypes, however, the reality is that hypnosis has the potential for use in the medical setting.
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Changing cultural stereotypes through email assisted foreign language learning.
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While it does not pretend to offer earth-shattering new paradigms, it substantially augments earlier studies of medical women and provides an interesting analysis of changing cultural stereotypes over a century.
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Ageing and cultural stereotypes of older women.
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She generally fails to recognize that even within and between the non-"eurowhite" ethnic communities in question, there are cultural stereotypes and misunderstandings based on ethnicity and class.
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