Shall we go to bed… Doctor?
Prejudice subdued, different ethnic groups have managed to manifest certain socio-behavioral traits, some of which are good, and other ones not particularly flattering. And although every unique individual harbors within his soul the opposite of all characters and traits, some of those traits may manage to surface as a general trait for a particular ethnic, genetic, cultural or geographic population. That character or trait may not necessarily be present in every individual unit in that cultural pool, yet it may seem to be present up to a threshold of abundance, at which point it becomes a detectable trait in more people of that population, qualifying it to be a trend character for population X. Let those trends be physical, behavioral or otherwise. Good, bad, or neither.
To exemplify, many may see individuals of French background generally and favorably as sexually radiant, yet unfavorably as rude. Germans on the other hand may favorably depict the master crafter model, and unfavorably as rugged. Brits favorably as master planers or even devious (when conquering the world compared to their American cowboy cousins), and unfavorably as yellow-toothed. And Middle Easterns, and along the same lines, as passionate yet untamed. That by no stretch should insinuate that every French woman is sexually radiant or British man is yellow-toothed. Read the rest of this entry »
