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Shintaro> By the way, what is foreigner's stereotype exactly?

Really, I would like to know... :-) However, when I say that
I came from Brazil, everybody says: "Oh! Drink this and that
coffee", when I say:"No, I don't drink coffee" eveybody get
so surprised:"How can! You're a brazilian! (sic)". And the
same thing for "soccer", "carnival", "samba", etc. etc.
I don't play soccer. (I like Basketball). I don't like samba
or carnival. (I like Bossa-nova instead...). I never have
been in Amazon (3,000 Km far from my home...). It's very
interesting because when working and I say that I'm a brazilian
everybody start to think different about me, because in their
first thoughts they thouhgt I was american, and wonder how
a "brazilian" can know all those things... (sic) :-)
My wife is american and she has the same kind of problems.
Sometimes "stereotype" can be for good. I know some americans
(Blond and blue-eyed) who back in the US would be nothing and
hardly would be earning more than 20,000 dollars, but they 
can do it here because some japanese stereotype this kind 
of people as "Kakkoii" or "Should know many things" or
typical american... Many times many japanese said to my
wife:"Hey you cannot be american!" (she is a taiwanese-american)
or "I think your english is strange" (god.. she is american!
but how she doesn't look "american", many japanese say this
kind of stupid things.)

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