Stereotypes and Prejudices in a Country with two Cultures (ePub)

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Communications - Intercultural Communication, grade: A, Mid Sweden University (Management Information Technology), course: Intercultural Communication, language: English, abstract: English people drink tea, the French love red wine and Germans are always on time - those are just three examples of stereotypes that everybody knows. A Google-search for the term 'stereotype' shows more than 23 million results which give an impression of the importance of the concept in our society. As Ting-Toomey and Chung point out: "It is inevitable that all individuals stereotype." The first part of the following assignment will explain the social-psychological background: What is stereotyping, what are prejudices and what comes next? Thereby, the terms stereotype and prejudice are used differently, as it is used in the book 'Understanding Intercultural Communication' by Ting-Toomey and Chung which is the basis for the assignment. It should be mentioned that there are references where both terms are used synonymously. The second part of this assignment will deepen the topic and explain it using a current example: What do German citizens think about each other even 20 years after the Fall of the Wall? Is it possible to talk about one country as one culture and what kinds of stereotypes and/or prejudices still exist?