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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Looking for the right word...
Hello and thank you for taking the time to help me.
I'm not even sure how to properly ask this question, but I'm look for a noun that characterizes in a general sense, when a person is acting like a stereotype or stereotypical character without using a specific label. It can be a metaphor as long as it's a thoughtful one (like using the term "lemming" to describe one who blindly follows without thinking).
For example: a white American male dressed in dirty, blue jeans, unshaven, Budweiser baseball cap, farmer's tan, big wad of chewing tobacco, drives an old pickup truck, lives in a trailer park, tells racist jokes, has a nasty girlfriend/wife, dirty, unkempt children...you get the picture. In this case, the specific label might be "redneck", "white trash" etcetera.
The word should be general enough to use in most situations where a person genuinely appears to fit a negative stereotype of a culture/race/religion/demographic.
Thank you in advance,
Mark
I'm not even sure how to properly ask this question, but I'm look for a noun that characterizes in a general sense, when a person is acting like a stereotype or stereotypical character without using a specific label. It can be a metaphor as long as it's a thoughtful one (like using the term "lemming" to describe one who blindly follows without thinking).
For example: a white American male dressed in dirty, blue jeans, unshaven, Budweiser baseball cap, farmer's tan, big wad of chewing tobacco, drives an old pickup truck, lives in a trailer park, tells racist jokes, has a nasty girlfriend/wife, dirty, unkempt children...you get the picture. In this case, the specific label might be "redneck", "white trash" etcetera.
The word should be general enough to use in most situations where a person genuinely appears to fit a negative stereotype of a culture/race/religion/demographic.
Thank you in advance,
Mark
Top answer
You don't want to simply say that he fits the stereotype? You could say he is an archtype, I guess, but there's nothing inherently negative about that.
- You don't want to simply say that he fits the stereotype?
- You could say he is an archtype, I guess, but there's nothing inherently negative about that.
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You don't want to simply say that he fits the stereotype?
You could say he is an archtype, I guess, but there's nothing inherently negative about that.
You could say he is an archtype, I guess, but there's nothing inherently negative about that.
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