Stereotypes In American Folklore Characters

In American folklore characters occupy a large place "border" - strong, agile, courageous people; praised the hard work and perseverance, cunning and courage. Many of the heroes of folklore exist in reality, although their feats and tricks greatly exaggerated, as people granted them popular with his own qualities. Hunter and storyteller Davey Crockett (1786-1836) lived in one of the south-eastern states, he was repeatedly elected to Congress. Folk humor Crockett gave a smile that raccoons could not make themselves were given into the hands of the hunter. Once Croquet, taking the raccoon outgrowth on a tree branch, a long time he was smiling, but the raccoon did not react. Cut down the trees and making sure that he was mistaken, Crockett found that his smile "all bark peeled from the branch and outgrowth disappeared." Crockett grew up in the imagination of American stationery in a certain culture hero, bringing home in his pocket sunlight, liberating the land of ice and so forth. Legends of exuberant Bill, the famous arrow from a revolver, a brave man, popular in the prairies. This is also a real person - Buffalo Bill, Shepherds, hunters, the overseer of wild horses, stagecoach driver and a scout in the army, and the successful hunter buffalo. Very nice figure defender of the oppressed Paul Bunyan, loggers hero USA and Canada. His …show more content…
Most of these definitions are echoes already given. They are called the five main elements of racist ideology:
1. Belief in the superiority of one, or possibly several races - over others. This belief is usually combined with the hierarchical classification of the racial groups.
2. The idea that the superiority of some and the inferiority of others have a biological nature. This conclusion follows from the belief that the superiority and inferiority ineradicable and can not be changed, for example, under the influence of the social environment or