This document discusses cultural and business stereotypes, using Spain as an example. It defines stereotypes as overgeneralizations about social groups. Some common stereotypes about Spain are that Spaniards don't work and party all night, drink excessively, are poor and lazy, and that bullfighting is the main pastime. However, the document rebuts these stereotypes, noting Spain has high sunlight hours so midday work is difficult, drinking is more social than excessive, Spain has a large economy, and bullfighting is actually banned in some regions. It also notes that while tourism is important, reckless behavior by some visitors has caused deaths.

1. Stereotype of a
Country
CULTURE AND BUSINESS

2. Management team
 Hamza Abbas
 Badar Saeed

3. Table of Contents
 Stereotype
 Examples of Stereotype
 Base of Stereotype
 Culture Stereotype
 Business Stereotype

4. What is Stereotype?
Stereotype is,
 “Any commonly known public belief
about a certain social group or a type of
individual”.

6. Examples of Stereotypes?
 Some Examples are:-
 All white Americans are obese, lazy, and dim-witted.
...
 Mexican stereotypes suggest that all Mexicans are
lazy and came into America illegally.
 All Arabs and Muslims are terrorists.
 All people who live in England have bad teeth.

7. Stereotype Based on:-
 Stereotypes are
 Overgeneralizations, they often involve assuming a
person has certain characteristics based
on unfounded assumptions.
 We Stereotype people based on:-
 How they look in terms of sexual orientation
 Gender
 Race etc.

8. Cultural Stereotype:-
 “A fixed impression which may have little basis in fact,
but is nevertheless perpetuated by persons unwilling
to look more deeply into the matter”

9. Spain’s Culture Stereotype:-
 Spain’s Cultural Stereotypes are:-
 Spaniards don’t work. They party all night and
sleep all day.
 Spaniards drink…a lot!
 Spaniards are poor / lazy.
 Bullfighting is the national pastime.
 Spain is paradise for tourists.

10. Spaniards don’t work. They party all
night and sleep all day.
 First off, Spain has the most hours of sunlight of any
country in continental Europe.
 During midday hours (in Spain, from 1pm to 4pm,
approx.), working can be dangerous.

11. Spaniards drink…a lot!
 Spaniards drink less.
 Culturally, they abuse alcohol less, with the bar often
serving more as a meeting place.
 Spain actually has the most bars per capita in Europe.
 But here a bar is not a place specifically for getting
wasted.

12. Spaniards are poor / lazy
 Sometimes the image of a hot, exotic region is linked
to the idea of poverty / laziness, which is not true.
 Spain is actually the 13th largest economy in the
world (the same GDP as Canada).
 In actuality, there are few countries richer than Spain.

13. Bullfighting is the national pastime
 Bullfighting is actually forbidden in regions of Spain
 It’s the national icon.

14. Spain is paradise for tourists.
 Every year, many young tourists die in Spain’s East
Coast hotels.
 By doing balconing jumping from one balcony to the
next.
 Drunk And sometimes they fall and they die.