"Typical American woman"

[peacetraveler22]

I don't know how foreigners perceive the "typical American woman." However, three times this week, I have been called this.

Stereotypes - they are very damaging in many cases, and must be quashed. We are all influenced by stereotypes on some level, but I really try to erase them from memory when traveling, forming impressions based only on pure experience. Most recently, I can say it about Georgia - where everyone warned me about all kinds of things, when in reality I encountered almost none of the horrors mentioned. In the end, we are responsible for the company we keep. You have the choice to surround yourself with good, positive and uplifting...or, you can run wild with the animals in the zoo.

Most people using this phrase - "typical American woman" have never even met, or had any real experience with an American woman. Therein lies the problem...that is all I really want to say for today. :)

Comments

[maks j-fry (from livejournal.com)]

Yeah. This is the truth! But you don't know why she and other women get education here in Russia. I'd like to explain you this through famous anecdote, I hope I can do it.

A father makes his daughter to go to University but she doesn't want. She says - why should I go there for 5 years if in the end I still get married, make some kids and stuck in the kitchen? The father says - the difference is who will be your husband. If you don't go to University it would probably be a plumber or something if you go there it could be a doctor, lawyer or even better.

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Sick anecdote, to brainwash young women that their whole life and motives should center around finding a man. Also, I see nothing wrong with a plumber as long as they are hard-working, kind and loving.

[maks j-fry (from livejournal.com)]

What?! I hope it makes you laugh. I tried. O man, shame on me.

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

I do not find this topic amusing, in fact it makes me very sad that some young girls are raised this way. Good man - this is a treasure, all welcome it...but there is more to life than this. :)