English Stereotypes (Not British)

Woodlands Junior School is in the south-east corner of England

Definition: A stereotype is "...a fixed, over generalised belief about a particular group or class of people.” (Cardwell, 1996). In other words stereotyping is believing that people of a certain group, race or religion all have the same characteristics when they don't.

Learning from the media and talking to older people, we pick up a lot of stereotypes about other nations. In every country there are plenty of stereotypes about residents, some maybe true but most of them are untrue and very wrongful. This page looks at stereotypes of the English and what people around the world see as the stereotypes of the English.

What are the first three things which come into your mind when you hear the words 'England' or 'the English?

Mine are fish and chips, rolling hills and sarcasm