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Main - - Culture - Lakunes and Delusions Stereotypes   Stereotype - it is a simplistic and often grotesque image of a country Stereotype as a prerequisite for thinking Geopolitical stereotypes Native - Alien Clash with reality Social аnd Cultural Stereotypes Against Belarus The social stereotype is commonly understood as a simplified, schematized, emotionally charged and extremely stable image of a particular social group or collectivity, easily distributed to all its members. The common place in definitions of the social stereotype is also its recognition as a predominantly negative phenomenon, affecting the full, adequate understanding of people, its interpretation as peculiar blinders that distort the vision of social reality. Socio-cultural space of Belarus has different images. Internal diversity of national self-contemplation and state and social self-identification is certainly synchronized by our young and liberal traditions of historical narrative, a kind of social and psychological conventionality tough hardly but achieved by the members of the becoming nation.     Site Search: check any of the words check every word © National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 2011