Posted: September 13th, 2017

Thoughtful blog by H Morgenstein

Thoughtful blog by H Morgenstein

Here is an example of a thoughtful blog by H Morgenstein. What do you think about it? There are some grammatical errors, so bear with it!
Generalizations & Stereotypes

A few times before I’ve mentioned that there is a fine line between stereotypes — all Jews are…all Germans are…and generalizations — intelligent observations about what a group of people tend to do.
Here is a list of generalizations — intelligent observations — that I found in a book, “China The Pool of Unease” by Catherine Sampson — and yes, I recommend the book.
She is talking about the influx of foreigners into China: “Americans put stern-eyed marines at their embassy gate, Filipinas sang in hotel lounges, the French collected antiques, the Italians shopped for textiles, the British opened schools for the children of the rich, the Germans ran five star hotels, the Russians bartered furs, and Mongolian women worked in brothels, the Koreans opened barbecue restaurants and Japanese ate raw fish and refused to apologize for history.”
She is not saying that every American did this, or every Frenchman did that, but she is a keen observer of what people tend to do — and people always try to do what they are best at doing.
The Germans, a highly efficient, hard working, organized group of people, and they run five star hotels.  If you go to China and want to stay at a hotel, you would like to stay at a well run hotel — clean and efficient.  Germans do that well.  In general, you want to stay at a German run five star hotel, not a five star hotel run by Filipinos.
The hotel run by Filipinos might be a good hotel, a well run hotel, but you should go with the odds, and you should go to listen to Filipinas who sing — and they probably sing in German run hotels.
You could be stereotyping when you say you like to go to Jewish doctors and eat at barbecues run by black people.  There are great black doctors & there are Jews whose barbecuing skills are terrific — but in general, it is good to go with the odds.
When you shop for clothes, you think of Italian names — Ferragamo,  Armani, Versace — and indeed, in China, to quote the  book again “Italians shopped for textiles.”  Though the French have always been known as great cooks, she observes that “the French collected antiques, and the Russians bartered furs.’  Stereotypes evolve — or generalizations (which become stereotypes) must change with the times.  The French are now into antiques, the Russians barter furs.
It is a sad state of affairs when she says “Mongolian women worked in brothels.”  They sell what they have to sell — their bodies.  This will not always be true.  It is not that Mongolian women have looser morals than women in other countries, but Mongolians are poor, are truly, at this point, a third world country.  Let us fervently hope that America will not long be known for “stern eyed Marines at embassy gates.”  Just as Mongolia is a third world country, America is a first world power that needs to defend its gates — hence, stern eyed marines.
And finally, the last three of her generalizations: barbecue restaurants are run by Koreans, the highly educated British have a long history of living abroad so they are known for opening schools for the children of the rich, and the Japanese eat raw fish and refuse to apologize for their history.  Stereotypes are, to some extent, intelligent generalizations.
Posted by Henry Morgenstein

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