About 316 Million people (2013) are living in
America. This number includes also high amounts of immigrants: 39 Million
Afro-Americans, 50.5 Million Americans
with origin in Latin America, ca. 14.7 Million Americans with origin in Asia
and 3 Million Americans with
origin in India.
This means 30 inhabitants per square kilometer.
When we think of Americans the picture that comes into our minds is a
picture of a stereotype. People think of others in stereotypes because they do
not understand well the culture and the people. They put them into
classifications thinking everybody being of that culture needs to be as they
picture them in their heads.
So, what does a typical American look like?
In our heads it is an overweight guy with a gun in his
hands and of course some kind of junk food. We link restaurants like McDonald’s or Burger King with the American culture and, furthermore, an
excessive national pride (American flag).
I want to emphasize this is not the
way every American citizen does look like. We are talking about stereotypes!
The Asian population can be divided into six
Asian regions as followed:
Eastern Asia – 1,527 billion people
South Asia – 1,438 billion people
Southeastern Asia – 558 million of people
Middle East – 348 million of people
Central Asia – 87 million of people
Northern Asia – 2,798 billion of people
Forecasts predict that the Asian population will rise to 5,2 billion
people until 2050. Reasons for this immense growth is, on the one hand, the
high increase in birthrate in countries like e.g. India and, on the other hand,
the increase in life expectancy. Particularly countries like Japan (82 years), Singapore
(82 years), Taiwan (78 years), South Korea (79 years) and Thailand (72 years)
are countries with highest life expectancy. This attributes to better
nutrition, better hygiene as well as an ample medical care in the last
centuries.
Asia is not only the most heavily populated continent, it also includes
the most metropolises in the world e.g. Peking, Delhi, Istanbul, Jakarta, Mumbai, Shanghai, Manila or Tokyo.
Referring to the stereotypes I only depict the, in my opinion, most
common one – Chinese.
What does a typical Chinese
stereotype look like ?
Eating rice all day, always
photographing every place they are (mostly selfies nowadays), being very good
in studies (especially in Mathematics!) and defending oneself by doing Kung Fu.
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