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Have you ever been stereotyped..? Stereotypes are everywhere you go at school, work, everywhere and people get stereotyped everyday for any type of thing for example your race, language, skin color, for your beliefs, and for what other people of your race or belief do around the world. In a Comedy show “Ted Talk” Maz Jobrani talked about how he is guilty of stereotyping people. He said he was guilty of stereotyping Indian people that time . Maz Jobrani effectively used humor in his joke by using structure and word choice. He acted out how the Indian guy responded to him and his tone when he responded he also did the accent the Indian guy had and how he was moving, he mimicked everything the indian guy was doing. Maz said he was guilty …show more content…

He used word choice to prove that he is guilty of stereotyping people. He did the set up by telling us how and why he is guilty of stereotyping people, indian people specially this him. He said he was doing a comedy show in the middle east and one of the employees there told him that a driver was going to pick him up, so he said that he was there waiting and he saw an indian guy waiting there staring at him so he decided to walk over and so he asked him “ Sir are you my driver?” Maz acted out everything he’s accent and how he was moving he also made it a little bit more funny because he said the indian guy had a mustache. Maz started acting out how the indian guy looked at him like he said the worst thing ever and responded “No i own the hotel” so Maz asked him “Then why were you waiting there staring at me like if you were waiting for me?” so as a topper Maz said then the Indian guy said “I thought you were my driver” I thought the word/phrase “NO I OWN THE HOTEL” made the audience laugh because of the accent that Maz did when he said it and the descriptions Maz gave of the Indian guy like if he had a mustache , which he did. Maz Jobrani effectively used humor in his joke by using structure and word

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