In my Turkish class today we were doing exercises using a verb tense that signifies habits or general characteristic about people. It was going fairly well until we get to the last two exercises. In one we were supposed to fill in the blanks with the positive or negative form of verbs to make generalized statements about women and men. It went like this:
Women-
Gossip a lot.
Cry all the time.
Like to shop.
Don't know anything about cars.
Men-
Don't cry.
Like to fix things.
Enjoy soccer.
.... well you get the picture. This irked me a little. Then we get to the next exercise. We are given a country and something that everyone from that country likes and were expect to make a sentence about it.
We were given the following:
China/rice
Russia/vodka
Japan/sake
Italy/pizza
America/baseball
.....I think they forgot one: Turkey/stereotypes.