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Posted on: National Stereotypes

also, if you get stuck there's a transcript of this lesson being worked on by the legendary Chris here:

http://chinesepod.com/community/conversations/post/12463#comment-227356

give us a shout if you have any problems/ questions. Jiayou pengyou !

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thanks bauernruebe and penguins. Interesting

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must say, I was inclined to agree with bodawei [everyone does this stereotyping ] but then you've come along and made a very good case, and I suspect you've hit the nail on the head with:

"There's an earnestness about the strereotype"

..though of course, I think there are still many [probably more so among the less well educated] in our societies who are earnest enough in their stereotyping.

I suspect that despite your comment:

"despite the astonishing amount of foreign engagement China now has"

..that it's still relatively early days, it takes time for mindsets to change, and I also think large sections of Chinese society still have very little in the way of contact with foreigners...don't they still call out "laowai" if they see a foreigner in rural areas? [hehe, I must get there before that dies out]. So I think bodawei's point:

"because we generally know more about these cultures than they do"

..was a good one. I think to a large extent as really you're both suggesting, it comes down to exposure.

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"A search for {"the Switzerland of"} turns up 34,400 hits"

Man, just did a google search of "the Australia of" and it kept wanting me to look for "the Australian of"...anyhow nothing geographical seemed to turn up under the former which I guess just goes to show 我们澳大利亚人都很有个性

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"Greece has been called the Switzerland of South America"

shenme?..haha, very good.

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tried to post this link last night but the post didn't come through:

http://www.defamer.com.au/2011/07/boxing-kangaroo-attack-barely-fazes-tough-grannie/

ps I have a roo I like to spar with...they're great for training...gotta get the gloves on em first though or they cut you up a bit

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wei_en,

""你太 out 了" 不过因为她太 out 了，不知道是什么意思"

哈哈， 很幽默

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Just realised I said "particularly" with that spelling which was a bad choice of words. What I meant was jiushi nage spelling [ "Jack"]

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when I first saw the lesson title, I thought this would get the comments flowing, hehe. I wonder if this will be one of the biggest lesson threads of the year. We haven't even gotten onto many other nationalities yet.

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For those looking to bridge the gap between Ellie and Intermediate, I can recommend this lesson. It would be one of the easiest Intermediates I've seen.