What stereotype do you hate the most?

For me, it has to be the fact that some people think that COVID is the fault of any Asian person, and I take it personally (I am one myself)

Quote: "CoinCollector1243"​For me, it has to be the fact that some people think that COVID is the fault of any Asian person, and I take it personally (I am one myself)

​It's a tough one to swallow (& unfortunate) that such stereotypical ideology is propagated by some simple-minded statements made by a few unorthodox world leaders. One, in particular, seems to like to stir up the pot whenever there's a "fake news" event.

I dislike a more benign stereotype- the one that "only men are interested in collecting coins/banknotes." Quite nice to see women get more involved these days.

White Southerners are inbred, uneducated hicks.

Damned carpetbaggin' Yankees started that one for sure.

Oh, and that one about Brits having bad teeth. I beg to differ Sirs, my teeth are pearly white and perfect, almost as magnificent as my leonine hair.

Every evil stereotype ever about people of the Jewish faith, all this rubbish about them being greedy, hell bent on world domination and everything Israel does against the Palestinians is reflective of Jewish people in general. Plus caricatures of Jews with oversized noses, blubbery lips, almond shaped eyes and that conniving grin with rubbing of hands you see in all those white supremacist means.

Most Jewish people are not greedy - they share their wealth well - its proscribed in the Talmud and not all are super rich either.

Israel is a small part of Judaism - they have their right to live there and there is proof most so called "Palestinians" are descendants of Muhammad Ali Pasha's armies that settled there after 1831 just a few decades before the first Moshavas and Aliyahs. Plus Israel is dominated by a conservative element, most Jewish people are very liberal. Israel is the right of a state for a stateless people who were driven out nearly 2000 years ago.

Jewish people may be well known in music and media, but not every outlet is "Controlled" by them - the worst media service - Fox is 100% Christian.

The Shoah (Holocaust) was proof of how horrible the world has treated them, whenelse in the past 100 years has the world sta idly by for over a decade to watch one group of people systematically try and eradicate another.

Jewishness is not really an ethnicity - yes many are what you call "Semitic" like Arabs, but most of "White Jews" have more European, Teutonic, Latin and Slavic blood due to centuries of intermixing - many Jewish people in the west are indistinguishable from non Jewish people. Plus many of them can be Black, Asian or even Middle Eastern Arab. But Judaism is a religion more than a race - we don't say the Christian race, so why the Jewish race already.

Another crude stereotype was the "Blood Libel" in which they are supposed to murder a Christian child and use their blood for making matzoh bread. It is complete rubbish - the presence of blood in anything is against Mosaic law - also murdering people of other religions is punishable by death and exile. Yet stories of Blood libels set off pogroms as late as 1913.

In that year, the body of a 13 year child was found dumped on the grounds of a Jewish hospital in Kiev, Russian Empire(Actually it had been donated to the community, but the city fathers refused to go into a "Yid" hosiptal) and it had lost a lot of blood, a Jewish caretaker, Michael Bielis was blamed and arrested and spent 2 years in jail before it was known the case was bogus (The child a Christian from a bad home was beaten to death by street tuffs over a few kopecks and it was proven the mother was a drunken abusive wretch who owed the local madam/ fence money and they killed the child dumping the body on the grounds of the Jewish hospital).

Michael Bielis was released in 1915 and his family promptly migrated to New York City, where he died in 1932. It almost sounds farcical, but the story was big news, many Russian high ups including the Tsar believed this garbage and the story only lost importance with world war one. In reality it was that Bielis was a scapegoat and the people of Kiev were jealous of the Jews, who lived better than they did and even had cars - in reality most were just as poor and the Bielis family were very poor.

Being a Catholic, reading some history of Jewish people - it opens your eyes and my co religionists the Catholics were the worst along with Orthodoxes and Muslims.

By the way I am 100% not Jewish - but I get really annoyed how they are treated. Sadly most of its permitted - when Whites do it, its condemned but Muslims get away with blue murder over their treatment and sterotyping of Jewish people. If you go into the airports of any Muslim city like Kuala Lumpur you can buy books like "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" which was a famous anti semitic hoax about world domination from 1903.

Moneytane, I really like your lecture about the Jewish people and I agree for 100% with it.

Another stereotype(s) are ones about New Zealand. Tell me I am wrong if you have not heard of these.

1. New Zealand is full of sheep (And some NZers are often joked about having improper relations with them). Reality - we have 26 million sheep, down from 81 million in 1958 - New Zealand is full of lush grasslands and high country stations perfect for sheep as producers of wool and meat. However low prices have seen the sheep industry decline and dairying is taking over along with temperate and subtropical fruits and vegetables, wine and berries.

2. The Maoris all wear grass skirts, live in mud huts and eat each other. Fact - Most Maori have been "Civilised" since the 1800s, they live in cities like the rest of us and have the usual issues of poverty, high crime and disadvantage - but only concert parties and two of three tourist attractions (Dinner theatre mostly) have Maori in grass skirts etc. Cannibalism was part of ancient rituals as it was in most Polynesian and even Iron Age European cultures - but the practice died out with the coming of Christianity and the last proper cases of cannibalism were around 1865.

3. New Zealand is Australia and vice versa - a common stereotype given Australia is our near neighbour, but we are vastly different countries - our country is known for ist mountains, sheep, British and Maori culture and now Polynesian vibe. It was settled by free migrants and is left leaning. Australia was settled by convicts, has serious race issues and is mostly hot and dry, not cool and wet like NZ. It is much larger and has more of a Mediterranean vibe in the cities. Australia also has some darn fine people, great beaches and tropical rainforest along with a rich and heritage laden Indigenous culture!

4. New Zealand is part of Washington/Oregon/Canada/UK/Australia - no its not, we are a sovereign nation of our own.

5. New Zealand is full of hobbits and orcs - No comment, but most of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit Movies were filmed here and Hobbiton is a big tourist attraction.

Quote: "pnightingale"​White Southerners are inbred, uneducated hicks.
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​Damned carpetbaggin' Yankees started that one for sure.
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​Oh, and that one about Brits having bad teeth. I beg to differ Sirs, my teeth are pearly white and perfect, almost as magnificent as my leonine hair.

​As a direct descendant of both Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and Joseph Eggleston Johnston, I can appreciate your views. If Americans get their history lessons from Television, Hollywood and public education, they will never know the truth. I hope that you will consider this when examining other periods of history. We may have more in common than you previously supposed.

The stereotype I hate the most regarding coin collectors/numismatists is that we’re all extremely rich and are willing to pay hundreds of thousands for any coin that has even the tiniest speck of novelty value. Many are, but by no means am I rich. The other one is that we’ll flock to any remotely rare coin like vultures wherever it is being sold, all bidding higher and higher in a desperate attempt to get it. I do buy bulk lots off of eBay but I avoid every other non-specialised site (Etsy has become extremely toxic and craigslist is filled with dodgy types - I searched up ‘rare coin’ on there just to see if there was anything good and literally one of the first ads was ‘your cheapest fix in the area we have everything!’) like the plague.

I agree GG - Many of us may pay more than we want for something we specialise in (Like Half crowns in my case), but even I will not pay more than something is worth. I will never pay $5,000 for a coin worth $2,000, even if its really rare and I want it.

I am sure that applies to most of us and most of us will not buy every coin or buy fakes and ripoffs on Ali Baba or Communist China ripoffville.

As much as I love spending money on coins, I also have other bills to pay and things to buy with the money, which I work really hard for in an unpleasant job to get . When we can buy coins, they are assets and a reward for hard and thankless work.

The same stereotypes are thrown at Philatelists as well, and its worse, as with coins at least you have something more solid made out of a precious metal in some cases (Silver, gold platinum etc) or has some worth - but a stamp is made out of paper and most people think we ( I say that as stamps are a big part of my life too) are completely made wasting money on tiny bits of paper and unlike coins - have no value beyond perceived rarity and desirability value. Plus they are made out of paper- a near worthless and virtually infinite resource and you are limited to the past 180 years. At least with coins you can go back nearly 3,000 years.