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Stereotypes

Hello everyone! Welcome to my first entry this school year. Altough it is a bit busy because of our prom night in November sometimes, everything is going well in general. What about you? In our last English lesson we were talking about Stereotypes in different countries. What shocked me most was that 42 % of households in America own guns. Another thing which surprised me was that for every 100 U.S. resident are 120,5 guns. In 2019 has been occured more than one mass shooting per day on average. That is an total unbelievable number.   Another things which were very interesting in this lesson were the thoughts of Americans about stereotypically Austrian. Most of the Americans don’t even know Austria and where it is and if they do, they think it is the same as Germany. Us Austrians put much vulue not to compare us to Germany especially not to think as equal. Another Americans confound Austria with Australia, that is why many think of Kangaroos when they think ab...