Nationality and ethnicity stereotypes combine to shape sexual harassment abroad

Evidence

I also suspect that my relatively youthful appearance has exacerbated the voluminous amount of what is now termed “sexual harassment” in the United States, but is even more likely still to be viewed as good-natured, harmless fun abroad. My nationality and ethnicity intersect here to apparently lead some foreign men blatantly to ask me if I would go to bed with them. They think they know that American women are very promiscuous, and they have heard that black American women are the sexiest. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1186

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how ‘terms’ themselves travel (sexual harassment as U.S. classification vs. harmless fun elsewhere) fits this book’s running concern with who gets to name experience.
• XREF: Relates to vault discussions of ‘women’s bodies as first sites of state and cultural regulation’ and to the immodesty moral-panics article on how sexual conduct norms are read as national/racial essence. — connects to: Foreign men sexually harass black American women based on stereotypes; Cultural homogeneity produces presumptions that ground stereotypes — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1890; Sex stereotypes prescribe as well as describe behavior — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 756 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Foreign men sexually harass black American women based on stereotypes #corroborates (0.90)
• Hypersexuality stereotypes justify sexual assault of black and Latina women #exemplifies (0.90)
• Cultural homogeneity produces presumptions that ground stereotypes #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1890
• Sex stereotypes prescribe as well as describe behavior #expands (0.72) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 756
• Different disadvantaged groups across cultures share the same stereotype content #corroborates (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2948