How can you define someone as typical? You can’t. So how can you define a nation as a typical way? You can’t. All one can presume is that the typical figure portrayed as a representative of a country is what the majority of the population is like. This is how stereotypical opinions form.

On television someone of a certain class or nationality is often presented in a particular way in order to entertain the viewer. The characters are often presented as caricatures, over exaggerating their characteristics in comedies to make them amusing. If one English person is like this then they all will be. This is definitely not the case.

So how can you portray the “Typical Brit.” Yet again the answer is, “You can’t!” In Britain we have many stereotypical groups that I will explore in one of my next blogs, but first I want to look at how I imagine foreigners think of us British.

The Typical Brit:

• Fat
• A complete soccer hooligan
• Eats lots of fish and chips
• Sun burnt
• Constantly in Pubs
• Has bad teeth
• Loud

Yes, surprisingly we are typically betrayed negatively. Even the British have bad opinions of there fellow people “if your abroad and you hear someone singing really loudly or hurling abuse, drunk, usually wearing a soccer top, you know it’s someone British.” The thing is the British are very rarely like this and I hope I can prove that to you.