Stereotypes and Prejudices

When we talk about stereotypes I had about India, I could talk about music, elephants, cows in the streets, tigers, fakirs, Bollywood, strange dances and music.

 But the image I got of French people from Indians wasn’t very surprising for me: We are seen as egocentric, arrogant (French are often seen like that) but what surprised me is that our food is very blunt for them (it can easily be understood because Indians like very spicy food: meals like curry, Vada Pav It can be described as hot spice, with hot spice inside and with a bit more hot spice for us Europeans) and we drink a lot of wine (Indians drink a lot of tea but they also produce wine in the Sula Vineyards near Goa).

When we told them our stereotype of India, they immediately laughed, we told them they were very keen in mathematics, their music and dances were quite strange (music and dancing is a part of every celebrations in India).

They are keen on sports (that are quite inexistent here in France) such as Cricket and field hockey.