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In heaven, all the policeman are English, all the car mechanics are German,

In heaven, all the policeman are English, all the car mechanics are German, all the cooks are French, all the hotel keepers are Swiss, and all the lovers are Italian. In hell, all the policeman are German, all the car mechanics are French, all the cooks are English,

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In heaven, all the policeman are English, all the car mechanics are German,

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  1. In heaven, all the policeman are English, all the car mechanics are German, all the cooks are French, all the hotel keepers are Swiss, and all the lovers are Italian. In hell, all the policeman are German, all the car mechanics are French, all the cooks are English, all the hotel keepers are Italian, and all the lovers are Swiss.

  2. Stereotypes of National Character • Method: • Send college students in California home to find out from their mothers what it is to be whatever ethnic identity they take for themselves (e.g., Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Filipino, Latino, Anglo, etc.). • Remove self-identity from propositions and replace with a blank. • Remove 'Other people say that we are ...' to get negative propositions. • Retain 30 belief frames.

  3. Method (continued): • Translate from English into a number of the languages of Europe (Spanish, Italian, French, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian). • Ask people of different nations to fill in the blank with as many nations as they think fit. • 16 locations (Madrid, Barcelona, Vigo, Genoa, Naples, Paris, Cologne, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki, Krakow, Prague, Budapest, London, and Storrs). • Public settings (cafes, beer gardens, bars, railway stations, trains). • ~ 74 per location, 1184 total.

  4. Results: • High agreement on national characteristics (mean r = .67).

  5. Attributes

  6. Nations

  7. Results: • Similarity of perceptions reflects location of perceived (r =.42, p < .0001). • Similarity of perceptions reflects location of perceiver (r = .17, p < .05).

  8. Factors 1 and 2

  9. Factors 3 and 4

  10. Results: • Disagreement makes sense: • most peoples think better of themselves than others do. • neighbors differentiate more than peoples far away. • invading your neighbors does not win their esteem.

  11. What happens when you invade your neighbors

  12. Conclusion: Although stereotypes of national character show some regional chauvinism, there is much of the pattern that is broadly agreed upon and appears on the whole to represent a genuine effort of Europeans to understand each other rather than simple bigotry.

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