Hello and thank you for taking the time to help me.
I'm not even sure how to properly ask this question, but I'm look for a noun that characterizes in a general sense, when a person is acting like a stereotype or stereotypical character without using a specific label. It can be a metaphor as long as it's a thoughtful one (like using the term "lemming" to describe one who blindly follows without thinking).
For example: a white American male dressed in dirty, blue jeans, unshaven, Budweiser baseball cap, farmer's tan, big wad of chewing tobacco, drives an old pickup truck, lives in a trailer park, tells racist jokes, has a nasty girlfriend/wife, dirty, unkempt children...you get the picture. In this case, the specific label might be "redneck", "white trash" etcetera.
The word should be general enough to use in most situations where a person genuinely appears to fit a negative stereotype of a culture/race/religion/demographic.
Thank you in advance, Mark
Top answer
You don't want to simply say that he fits the stereotype? You could say he is an archtype, I guess, but there's nothing inherently negative about that.
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