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Opinion column in the glamour magazine Stereotypical japes on intelligence For years and years Ive been subjected to blonde jokes. You get word blonde jokes at elework forcetary schools, you key out them around the water cooler at work and you hear them on morning drive-time radio. Ever heard of this one before? Q. How do you get a blonde to laugh at a joke on Saturday? A. Tell it to her on Tuesday. Are those jokes most blondes or intelligence of a certain ethnical group really readed as funny? Are they politically correct?One could tell a joke almost intelligence of almost every ethnical group or attribute of someone, does this mean that these jokes ar political correct now, be typesetters case everyone is affected by it? A random person tells a joke about my intelligence assuming that I am thick just be stir I am blonde. I take upt c ar about the blonde jokes, precisely because the ones who tell the joke know exactly that it is non true. If people start to believe and take it personally, it could cause a lot of problems. I am aware that I am not stupid, why would I be successful in my work then?Last week I walk into the office, everything as usual my coffe and work awaiting on my desk, the employees getting ready to work. I get introduced to a new employee. A young tall man, seems confident, blue eyes, brown hair and dressed in a suite. Lets say Good tone. We talk, we laugh, I spill my coffee. He laughs and immediately has a blonde joke ready. Does he never spill his coffee? I could assume hes a dumbass, just because he has the stereotyp of a good looking arrogant man. Certainly he didnt mean to offend me, because we two know that blonde jokes are not true. Where is the context between blonde and dullness?The answer I believe is jealousy. Blondes are also seen as men-attracter, no matter if it is true or not. Men take blonde women, therefore other hair colored women are in the shadow of the blondes. Smells of jealousy The men are not getti ng blamed for prefffering the blondes, but the blondes as stupid as they are run after men. Jealousy? Seriously? Are humans beings getting so upset that they tolerate to discrimnate someones intelligence only because of their hair color? Hair color neither has feelings nor can it talk, so what is it about the hair color? It is not only the blondes who are hearing the jokes over and over again.The first mold of an Asian people make is that they are smart. Without even talking to them their prejusdice is that this Asian person is smarter than everyone else. What would you say about the intelligence of an American? Yes, I can forsee you would say that they have no general knowledge. A joke about Americans How does an american search for a rabbit ? He imitates the sound of a carrot. The joke itself is funny and everyone knows that it is not true, since it is unrealistic. The thought behind the joke though is still considered as true, that Americans are stupid.Here is the point whe re it could cause troubles, if people actually believe in it. One cannot judge the Americans as stupid, since their culture might have teached them differently. Eduaction is different, but judge the one who is responsible for it and not the ones who are dependet of it. If they are not intelligent, why are we then buying their products? I use my Iphone everyday, I am writing on my MacBook and I deal Starbucks. They all are American products. It conveys intelligence to succeed, no matter what kind of product. It could be food, clothe or technic.Im comparing Asians, Europeans and Americans now with their culture. People also say that the geographical knowledge of Americans are the worst, but does everyone in the world besides the Americans know where Estonia is? Would you know off by heart without looking at a map? I believe half of us wouldnt know. In the American culture, people express ones sentiments no matter if it is right or wrong and in case it is wrong they will laugh with it and correct is whereas in Europe it is embarassing. In Switzerland, where I live, it is an embarassement if you express something very wrong and people will laugh at you and not with you.In the Asian culture, for example in the Chinese culture there is the one-child policy. Obviously the parents want his only child to be successful and need to push them, therefore their effort overall in the culture is much higher than the ones of Americans. This still does not mean that Asians are smarter, only that some put in more effort and I would consider this as positive rather than negative. Maybe some are just again jealous that they dont have the endurance to put in enough effort to achieve a goal. all(prenominal) these jokes about intelligence are superficial and therefore spread easily within a fraternity or even outside the community.There is no logic behind these jokes, since one is proud of ones individuality and the entire world discloses individuality, but these jokes show th e opposite. I clearly cannot see any correlation between these to human thoughts. I will just live with the blonde jokes and be amused of them rather than being offended, they are still funny. Intelligence cannot be measured through appearance or nationality. Its obnoxious, unfair and unimaginative to blame intelligence on appearance or on an entire nationality. The lack of intelligence or overdose of intelligence simply doesnt come from these factors.