Today Maria and I met for our final session as conversation partners. We went to lunch and did the stereotypes and generalizations exercise. Actually we both had a hard time distinguishing between the two terms. She has pointed out that some things that she thought were true about Americans are not, she said that Americans were all rude, but she has found out that many are not. Maria told me that within Brazil there are many different sets of people, from different areas, they don't all act alike.
I told her that some people seem to think that all Canadians are polite, but I know this isn't true. We agreed that neither of us could actually say we were a perfect representation of people from our countries. There is too much variability across our countries to say Brazilians are like this or Canadians are like that.
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