Stereotypes against Americans....

As I was reading through chapter 1, I came across alot of interesting readings....but one that caught my eyes the most was about stereotypes on page 13.
I never really thought about how Americans can have stereotypes. So I decided to look on the internet for different stereotypes.....

From this website http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080804114239AAQtlel
I got these..

"They are fat and love fast food.
They are extremely patriotic to the point of jingoism and intolerance, despite claiming the greatest diversity in the world.
Americans don't like people immigrating to America.
The government is corrupt and whipped by the oil industries.
America has no culture, it's all taken from the immigrants.
Americans are stupid from growing up listening to Fallout Boy.
Americans have no honor, diligence, or restraint: they get what they want or there will be hell to pay from minorities.
Americans could give less a **** about the world and environment.
Their government loves to police the world.

All stereotypes, a little true to varying degrees, but still unfair judgments."


Most these stereotypes actually surprised me. As i looked for more online i realized that one stereotype that was said the most about Americans, was we were all fat and loved fast food. This is kinda of funny to me. But thats just a stereotype because not every one is fat or eats fast food. Now that i read about this i learned that mostly every race or ethnicity in the world can have stereotypes no matter how different we are.

All in all, i found these stereotypes funny and mostly not true at all. But maybe there are people out there who do fit these stereotypes. Well i wouldn't really know. OKay I'll ask this....what do you people think?