OF ALL THE MANY CONFUSED RELATIONSHIPS I have in my life, it’s the one with national stereotypes that causes me the most heartache.
On the one hand, I detest prejudice, and like any thinking human I bristle at a sweeping generalisation about a class, race, gender. Or any other distinctions that have been weaponised over time by the powerful to segregate humans from their fellow humans. On the other hand, national stereotypes can be annoyingly true.
Throughout the world the
