Self-stereotype Often people discuss stereotypes, forgetting that is something we have also about ourselves. Self-stereotype could be national, sexual or individual. Persons drives from it sense of commonality, feeling of being part of something, behavioural model that persons try to emulate. For example your nation self-stereotype itself as people of style, great warriors, lovers etc. It is constituted of notions, ideas, characteristics which are generalized and don't necessarily make part of ourselves . When comes to national self -stereotype, i can think of some people I personally met, who were born and raised in big and famous countries with strong self-stereotypes, as England, or Italy, those individuals were living in the shadow of great glory of their country. In some way, they were living inside of that stereotype, driving self esteem and content out of it, without enough conscious of their own life. Not completely independent from national is self-stereotype is about your own sex. .. To be continued