Cross cultural understanding: a handbook to understand others’ cultures

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Stereotype about American Men and Women 
As stated in previous chapter, stereotypes are 
generalizations of people groups which are deep-rooted in 

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the psyche of the people. People stereotype others based on 
what they see, their experience, or may be from the media.
Foreigners typically hold two stereotypes about American 
men and women. American women are stereotyped as 
inhibited women due to their sexual activity with a variety of 
men. The other common stereotype is that they are 
domineering. Related to this, American men are stereotyped 
as weak because they let themselves to be dominated by 
women. However, this stereotype is not the representative of 
the whole society.