In films like "Quilting Women," "Hand-Carved" and "Coal Mining Women," she has aimed to preserve Appalachian customs and history and to counter the stereotype of primitive shanty dwellers.
By the end of "Para-Dice," they'll have embodied every textbook stereotype of "the primitive".
Rather than the primitive brutes they are often stereotyped as, Professor Church believes Neanderthals were highly intelligent, perhaps even more intelligent than humans.
Although these films did very well abroad, local critics worried that internationally directed projects drew on stereotypes of Ireland being primitive yet idyllic and the Irish being short-tempered drunkards.
The presentation of African culture as a feast of exotic pageantry has the potential, at least, to reinforce stereotypes of African people as primitive and unsophisticated, albeit endowed with astounding aptitudes for song and dance.
The stereotype of the hypersexual and primitive Jezebel, sparked by the Transatlantic Slave Trade, has continued to plague black women and their relationships.
The candor and passion are to be expected, but the stereotype of Ginsberg as a semiliterate primitive leaves one unprepared for his erudition and intellectual brilliance.
White and black, they all struggled with racist stereotyping that decreed that blacks were primitive, instinctual and spontaneous, and therefore, by nature, were suited to play "hot" jazz.
In these works, colonialist attitudes are reproduced by Manning's stereotyping of Catholic southerners as wild, primitive and undisciplined, while northerners live lives of well-ordered efficiency.
Two images of an African nation — modernizing or primitive: I know which comforts the continent's stubborn stereotypes.
