Stereotype

Stereotype is making a different look of people around the world by exaggerating ethnic or racial specifications to introduce the society through media specially motion pictures and cartoons. Stereotype sometimes is positive to show someone or to represent a society so strong or immortal, like Batman, Superman, Spiderman and other heroic marvels. On the other hand it could be led in negative way to show the people or society so funny by exaggerating the negative points of them; for example, in my country, Iran, people tend to tell jokes for each other which the jokes are mostly about some poor ordinary citizens of different states and cities of Iran with different moods and attitudes which make them specific. In these jokes for instance, people of Isfahan are so stingy, people of Yazd are so accountant, or Tehranis opt to tell their memories exaggerated until it seems not so real.

Here is an old joke about Yazdi people to show you how I experienced stereotype in my country:

"Some day a Yazdi man calls his son and advices him to mind his steps when he is walking in street for two reasons. First his shirt collar never get dirt of sweating (Because the weather in Yazd is so warm), and second is he never miss the coins and notes which are lost unintentionally!!! "