stereotypes

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The author wanted to avoid stereotypes about young men - especially young Muslim men - and saw no reason to compromise his style or his grand ambitions to write about and for them, he says.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

The performers do polished work, although their characters are somewhat, um, bloodless stereotypes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

There’s plenty of furtive gags like this throughout “Up in Smoke”: police incompetence, absent parents, anti-war rhetoric and racial stereotypes that function as satire.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026

But two decades in Germany, where he learned the language so completely that he sometimes catches himself thinking German, helped mitigate any Yankee Doodle stereotypes by the time he moved to La Liga.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

He told some people precisely what the experiment was about and told them explicitly to avoid stereotypes based on race.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell