Stereotyping

[Will_3rd]

People assume I'm posh because I like good food and take time preparing it, plus the fact that my parents have a cleaner at home doesn't help

 

[Memphis]

I work in an IT department, suffer from a mild form of acne and am pretty thin... I'm a bloomin' walking stereotype!

 

[goldilocks]

Heh, I'm only joking

I seem to remember you saying you're a nutritionist?

heh
i'm a therapeutic radiographer
(though i do have nutritional / alternative health training through my old part time job)
so the confusion lies in the white and blue uniform!

 

[Feef]

I get stereotyped as either a person in to some sort of heavy music or a hippie. Don't have a problem with either of these, the second's probably more accurate, but the first is more common - long hair, dark clothes, beard, guitarist, etc.

I'm not too fussed, I find it quite amusing when people tell me what their initial preconceptions of me are. Turns out I'm actually quite a normal guy

 

[fail at the internets]

I'm sorry to say that wearing eyeliner, I would stereotype you as a poof.

 

[Blackstar]

Blonde = stupid
Scottish = Like haggis and other preconceived ideas of what being Scottish means, including that i say "troosers" instead of trousers. Although i suspect this was DRZ taking the ****.
Finally one i can't really put my finger on is why people never expect me to say 'archaeology' when they ask what i am studying at uni.

 

[[TR]SweetSpotOz]

Blonde = stupid
Scottish = Like haggis and other preconceived ideas of what being Scottish means, including that i say "troosers" instead of trousers. Although i suspect this was DRZ taking the ****.
Finally one i can't really put my finger on is why people never expect me to say 'archaeology' when they ask what i am studying at uni.

Because nobody under 50 is an archaeologist?

 

[Tefal]

EDIT: And upon looking at your sig, it appears you need to seek a new definition of emo that isn't bent around not including you.

hehehe its from the portal song

Cake?

 

[Buffman]

People assume that because I'm Scottish I wear a kilt, eat haggis and drink whisky by the gallon......

.... Oh, wait

yeah I get that quite a bit on xbox live..

 

[Blackstar]

Because nobody under 50 is an archaeologist?

But then how do they learn to be archaeologists? Pretty much every archaeologist i know, other than a few lecturers are under 50. It's difficult to handle the manual labour side otherwise.

 

[tom_e]

People dont belive me when I say im a lifeguard, just because im a big guy and look nothing like the hoff does not mean I cant do my job

 

[[TR]SweetSpotOz]

But then how do they learn to be archaeologists? Pretty much every archaeologist i know, other than a few lecturers are under 50. It's difficult to handle the manual labour side otherwise.

I thought I put a smiley in my post?

 

[Blackstar]

I thought I put a smiley in my post?

You did

 

[KaHn]

Yes people look at me and think I am dumb

KaHn

 

[Sic]

people think I'm a pirate or a viking. stereotyping isn't all bad

 

[Indy500]

i guess thats why i don't complain about being called 'nurse'

Either that or its the secretary\receptionist stereotype...

 

[manjuice]

Some people stereotype all chinese/asians are good at doing math, I know some chinese people who are cr_p at math.

 

[Indy500]

Not a stereotype per se, but I've been mistaken for being Italian\Portuguese\Iranian based on my skin colour (unfortunately they're all way off the mark).

 

[Justintime]

I get stereotyped all the time, people always ask me if i eat pork, like chutney, how olds me kids (i'm less than 30 by a good bit mind u!), are my parents strict, whats the latest bollywood films, am i a doctor etc.. they get surprised as hell when i tell em i'm of Caribbean descent, love ragga, reggae, rap and eat mostly pepperoni and am in love with Italian food and women, have no kids, not married, smoke, drink.. blah blah...

 

[Indy500]

They wouldn't if you were walking around with your girlfriend Justin