American Stereotypes Essay

American companies such as Nike, Apple, and McDonalds are name brands that have spread throughout the world. These companies are the first impression other countries receive of American people and therefore are the basis of American stereotypes. I do not think that other countries truly believed in American stereotypes, but much to my surprise I received a large amount of stereotypical questions as I stood in front of a class in France. “Do you eat a lot of McDonalds?” “Do you own an IPhone 6S? “””How much does that cost?” “How many celebrities have you met?” The only information about America these kids knew was because of McDonalds, Apple, and films produced by companies such as Fox. These abrupt questions running through my head forced me

Companies such as Fox and CNN produce movies and T.V. shows which are then adapted into all other languages and watched worldwide. The life projected in these shows are glorified and not a true depiction of American life. The people watching these movies do not know the falsities of these shows and are inclined to believe all of the information. One prime example of glorified American life is the Kardashian family. Many people from other countries believe that all Americans live in huge mansions and drive expensive cars because that is what they see when the watch Keeping Up with the Kardashians. The Kardashians do not work for the wealth that they have acquired because they were born into the money, therefore other countries believe that all Americans do not work for their money. This in turn creates the stereotype that Americans are lazy and do not know how to do anything for themselves. Another false representation that Hollywood has created is that American parties are wild and out of control. Movies such as Project X and American Pie have taken normal American college parties and brought them to an extreme level that is simply not realistic. These movies created false expectations of American parties; these viewers would be disappointed if they went to a true American Party. Hollywood has created stereotypes of American people and two specific examples would be that Americans are lazy and throw huge