{"id":34694,"date":"2022-05-03T05:30:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T03:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=34694"},"modified":"2022-05-03T00:45:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T22:45:47","slug":"stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"Stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prejudice and stereotypes (les pr\u00e9jug\u00e9s et les st\u00e9r\u00e9otypes<\/strong>) are almost always bad \u2026 except when they are the source of a humorous campagne publicitaire<\/strong>1<\/a><\/sup>ad campaign<\/em><\/span> from the French financial company Cofidis<\/a>.\u00a0This week we look at some\u00a0pubs<\/strong>2<\/a><\/sup>tv commercials<\/em><\/span> that highlight common misconceptions that people make about other people.<\/p>\n

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Photo CC0 from www.pexels.com<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Don\u2019t judge \u2026<\/h3>\n

A book by it\u2019s cover! In French we would say \u201cL\u2019habit ne fait pas le moine.<\/strong><\/a>\u201d However you say it, the meaning is the same: don\u2019t assume you know a person based on age, race, gender, or other superficial categories.<\/p>\n

Cofidis<\/a>, a company which lends money\/provides credit to people, played up this idea for effect in a recent ad campaign3<\/a><\/sup>I\u2019ve included a select few here, but you can see all the ads from the campaign here<\/a>.<\/span>.<\/p>\n