A stereotype is an image that
other people have of a certain thing, usually
exagerated. This term is used to show all the strengths and weaknesses,
for example of a country.
Colombia is located in the Andean
part of South America, near Brazil, Venezuela, Peru and Ecuador. Colombia is a
country in development, which is looking for a better way of life. First of all
i`m going to talk about the stereotypes that the people from different
countries have of Colombia.
The Colombian people are related
to drugs because they have the major drug dealers all over South America. This
stereotype became from the increase of drug trade in 2010. The people are also
known by the facility to get angry, they tend to be aggressive, and they are
not tolerant. Another point is that they love the music, specially the
merengue. The Colombian people are hard workers, and they like their jobs well
done.
The people not only judge the
people, also they judge the places they visit. They say that Colombia is a bad
place to live because there is a lot of delinquency, and a lot of people are
kidnapped, specially foreign people. This cause a bad reputation to the country
and also causes that the foreign people be afraid to know Colombia.
After studying the behaviour of
the Colombians and their country, in my opinion the Colombian people are not
aggresive and not all of them are drug dealers. They are relaxed and funny
people, and we have to learn to don’t
judge them before we meet them.
To conclude, I think that every
people from Colombia are different, so we have to be respectful with other
countries and not to judge them. Also we have to learn about their country and
try to find a good reason to visit them because it is a beautiful place.
Link: http://eyesoncolombia.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/colombian-stereotypes-by-colombians/
Link of image: http://pwp.etb.net.co/fdrojas/Colombia/image008.jpg
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