Stereotypes Of Dumb Blonde

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Do you want to hear a dumb blonde joke? Nevermind, I don’t really feel like explaining it 15 times. Good afternoon ladies and gentleman, honorable judges and fellow 4-h members. Have you ever called someone a dumb blonde? Or maybe you were the one being called a dumb blonde? Well, throughout my life I was the one being called the dumb blonde. Yeah, it is nice to have something to blame when I do say something foolish or do something out of the ordinary. I can just use my hair colour as an excuse. Where does this stereotype come from? I want to get to the point of this and actually see, are blondes the dumb ones after all?

There are many different types of blonde hair to be distinguished; bleach blonde, sandy blonde, dirty blonde, strawberry blonde, light brown blonde and ash blonde. An online website named Quora states that all these different types of blondes make up around 24 percent of the world. Our society today stereotypes blondes as the less intelligent people. This would make me form a hypothesis that 24 percent of our world is dumb. I decided to do some research and test my hypotheses. …show more content…

An example of someone who is thought as a stereotypical dumb blonde is Marilyn Monroe. You now, the lady who always wears red lipstick and wears her hair literally platinum blonde.The funny thing is, is that she actually was a very successful actress, model, and singer. She also didn’t even have blond hair, she just dyed it that

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