What ethnic and national sterotypes have you noticed in movies recently?

The Stupid American. But then, I watch a lot of imported stuff.

The foreign looking american who other americans assume is a muslim terrorist but who turns out to be a sikh.

edit – thinking about it this may actually be the same group as @Nulllo’s

Albanian and Bulgarian maffia seem to be hot too, lately, in television series.

Germans are all mad scientists.

The nationalistic American versus the totally-not-nationalistic anybody else. Really, everybody does it.

The dirt poor foreigner living in the Middle East, who is incredibly generous and giving, despite the rudeness of Americans.

Seem to be a lot of Russians with no fear of dying.

The journalist / blogger / activist / conspiracy theorist played by Jude Law in Contagion.

The irate jew has always been the staple diet in movieland.

English man as evil genius (Jeremy Irons)
Scottish person as fall guy or sidekick. Never the main character.
Chinese and Japanese characters are always good a martial arts and zen philosophy. Except if they are Triad violent baddies
Irish are always happy drunks

@ucme Examples?

Err, thousands of them. I’m assuming you are conscious & breathing right?

How about naming 5?

@6rant6 @ucme Can we count Studio Managers who heard Mel Gibson is making a movie about Judah Maccabee?

@filmfann Oy.

German nannies working in the US are often depicted as heartless dictators when looking after the children.

It’s actually interesting to follow the evolution of the “national public enemy” in films. Savage black people raping innocent white girls, savage Indians killing innocent farmers, rude nazi’s, cruel Asians, hi-tech Russian spies (& co – other East European spies), barbarian Arabs and recently (starting with “Seven”), the cultivated, sophisticated, decadent Europeans vs. the Good American Cowboys who read Reader’s Digest…