stereotype
刻板印象,定型,陈规定型,刻板形象
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Definitions
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- : a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group: Cowboys and Indians are American stereotypes.
- : a set form; convention: Most important for lexicographers are the idiomatic stereotypes whose meaning cannot be inferred from knowledge of the meanings of the individual items.
- : Printing. a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.a plate made by this process.
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ster·e·o·typed, ster·e·o·typ·ing.
- : to characterize or regard as a stereotype: The actor has been stereotyped as a villain.
- : to give a fixed form to.
- : Printing. to make a stereotype of.
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Examples
Unlike the Tibetans or Muslim Uyghurs of its far west, China’s ethnic Mongol population has long been seen as pacified, content, and well-assimilated, fulfilling the stereotype of a “model minority” in a country bubbling with ethnic tensions.
It is imperative that we continue to battle the stereotypes and prejudices that prevent too many of us from making our best and highest contribution to our Republic.
Some workers were more likely to worry about stereotypes than others, whether because of their own innate fears or the actual prevalence of these attitudes in their work environments.
Science News has a long history covering race in America, including research on stereotypes and stigma, racial bias in research funding, and how the lack of diverse representation in clinical trials risks lives.
Many of these biases arise out of stereotypes — simplified beliefs that may not be true.
Give this gorgeous book to that friend who fits the stereotype.
A judge ruled that Black Piet indeed is a negative stereotype that infringes on the rights of black people in The Netherlands.
But it often feels more like something from a Japanese stereotype than anything explicitly offensive.
Our stereotype of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ is cocaine, nightclubs, and flapper girls.
So why is that such a lingering stereotype in the way pop culture represents Hollywood?
To look back, and to stereotype one bygone humour—what a hopeless thing!