Stereotypes

Assignement:

Visit those sites and discuss with your correspondent to find out if those stereotypes are true, where they come from and what each of you can do to avoid them if they are true, or to correct them if they are wrong....

How to behave in a foreign country:
in English, for businessmen :
http://www.executiveplanet.com/ 
acceptable public behaviour in France : http://www.executiveplanet.com/index.php?title=France:_Public_Behaviour
acceptable public behaviour in the USA : http://www.executiveplanet.com/index.php?title=United_States:_Public_Behaviour

Stéréotypes
Compare how the French and the Americans see each other : http://www.understandfrance.org/France/Intercultural.html
http://www.webpan.com/shannon/stereo.htm
in French : http://www.ac-grenoble.fr/heroult/rde/rde/stereotypes_fr.htm
in English : http://www.ac-grenoble.fr/heroult/rde/tl/elodie4.htm
in French with some English words as a help : http://faculty.nhmccd.edu/bstoller/stereotypes2311.html

What are the French like?
Video : http://www.vimeo.com/clip:31172/context/tag:nationalstereotypes

A Teaching Unit about stereotypes
http://the_english_dept.tripod.com/stereo1.html