Stereotypes of white Americans

Stereotypes of white people in the United States are generalizations about the character and behavior of white Americans.

Stereotype

Social stereotypes
Stereotypes of white people include the idea that they are "extremely self-involved, uneducated about people other than themselves, and are unable to understand the complicated ways in which people who are not white survive."

Stereotypes of white people in general either reflect those of upper class WASPs or "backward," "barely-educated" redneck sub-population. Stereotypes of rednecks include incest and inbreeding, abusing hard drugs like methamphetamine, and watching NASCAR. 

Stereotypically, white people cannot handle spicy food, depending on what the definition of "spicy" means.

Negative portrayals of specific groups of white people
As the social definition of "white people" has changed over the years, studies have shown that different races, ethnicities, and nationalities have different stereotypes of white people. Before the 1980s, ethnic groups such as the Irish, Italians, and Polish people were portrayed in popular media and culture in a negative fashion. White Hispanic and Latino Americans are often overlooked in the U.S. mass media and in general American social perceptions, where being "Hispanic or Latino" is often incorrectly given a racial value, usually mixed-race, such as Mestizo, while, in turn, are overrepresented and admired in the U.S. Hispanic mass media and social perceptions.

See also
 Acting white
 Angry white male
 Buckra
Crackers
Hillbilly
 List of terms for white people in non-Western cultures
 Redneck
 Stereotype
 Stuff White People Like
 WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant)
 White trash
Whites
Wigger

References

White people