A multicultural study of stereotyping in English-speaking countries

Citizens of 9 different English-speaking countries (N = 619) evaluated the average, or typical, citizen of 5 English-speaking countries (Great Britain , Canada, Nigeria, United States, Australia) on 9 pairs of bipolar adjectiv es. Participants were drawn from Australia, Botswana, Canada, Kenya, Nigeri a, South Africa, the United States, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. There were statis tically significant similarities in the rankings of the 5 stimulus countrie s on 8 of the 9 adjective dimensions and a strong convergence of autostereo types and heterostereotypes on many traits. The results relate to previous stereotyping research and traditional methods of assessing the accuracy of national stereotypes.