Thursday 3 October 2013

America maps.


This may not be an official picture from some official site or Google. I found this picture on tumblr, someone use paint or some naft programme to use it but I personally choose this picture because it represents the stereotypes of America. But the stereotypes by there town. I picked this particular picture because when I think of America I automatically stereotyped it to be obese or hipsters and some of them to be surfer hippies because of how many of the towns are shown by Tv shows or publicity. I never think of the towns to have politics from the little towns like Springfield.  The most obvious stereotype is Las Vegas, it’s the most visited place for tourists but when people think of Las Vegas they are brought automatically to casino's and with casino's come a lot more negative stereotypes about America like strippers and murders.  But the biggest  stereotype of America is the obesity, because America has a problem with obesity we automatically presume Americans are obese because of how many take away they have, there are over 50,000 fast food restaurants and 25% of Americans consume fast food. So with this many fast food restaurants how can we not presume that the majority of Americans are in fact obese. Obesity is just one of the many problems that America has to deal with as a stereotype. America has so many stereo types and there are not all listed on this map because everyone’s opinion on America are very different but these are just the main stereotypes.  Since this map is showing not all the good things about good stereotypes of America they are a few that should be put on there like how generous the country is as a whole  because they aid other countries, and send over many soldiers to fight for other people’s battles. This is one of the stereo types that people seem to forget when they are thinking of the star obsessed or the obese country the good things about America that they do for other countries.  The second good stereotype that people forget about America is the hardworking citizen’s, majority of them work every day of there life to have what they have whether they like the job or not. 

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