heterostereotype; autostereotype

[Dan Goncharoff]

This seems like a hetero-stereotyping of hetero-stereotyping...
DanG

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Not in OED. Some 3,000 GB hits for "heterostereotype," 2,800 for
> "autostereotype."
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> From a German academic site:
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> "Social psychology distinguishes...between auto-stereotypes and
> hetero-stereotypes....An auto-stereotype is an adjudgement (in the sense of
> an opinion) that an ethnic group forms about itself. A hetero-stereotype is
> more an association, a prejudice used by an ethnic group to define others.
> Within the national-stereotype you can find positive and negative ones.
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> "The auto-stereotype is always more differentiated than the
> hetero-stereotype. The positive attributes are dominating.
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> "The hetero-stereotype is tending to the black-or-white pattern: Stronger
> generalization, simplification or decrease [sic]."
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>  It's simple. A group's stereotype of itsself is "auto," of others
> "hetero."
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> JL
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