One particularly grotesque video, produced by the French site Minutebuzz, showing what is supposedly a handsome young Italian fan going through a profound existential crisis made up of the crassest stereotypes — over-boiled pasta, posters of Berlusconi, and vaguely offensive erotica — was widely publicized on Italian news sites, as if to encourage everyone to feel as bad as possible.
Read your dialogue aloud as you go, paying extra attention to whether or not it sounds halting, stereotyped, over-the-top, or totally uniform.
The stereotype of over-50s and over-60s is that they are over the hill, soon to become frail – as depicted in the road signs, showing two stooped people with walking sticks.
Adding cultural and religious bias, logistic sensitivity and unfounded fear to the existing union stereotypes of over-coddled and over-paid, affords union detractors greater ability to incite anti-union sentiment with new pejoratives like hyper-sensitive, hysterical, illogical and emotionally weak.
Reacting to gender stereotypes by over-stereotyping yourself is a classic self-defense mechanism, and Cheska, who's a bit on the edge of a breakdown already, needs to ensure she spends some time working on her confidence before she tries to tackle a new relationship.
Both foreigners and Americans are guilty of a bit of flyover state stereotyping, passing over certain parts of the United States for exciting, classic bucket list destinations.
He challenges us to put aside the dual child-actor stereotypes of over-rehearsed showponies, or social-realist mini-saints, and see that children are actually often very guarded and wary on film.
The album is about the dislocation of stereotypes over centuries.
"I wanted to flip some stereotypes over," Tam said, and he asked friends what all Asians had in common.
Another strong point of appeal: the story keeps the audience engaged because it subverts expected tropes and stereotypes, over and over.
