ence of popular behaviour and/or expectations of the situation within the known enviroment gaining comfort when the outcome is as predicted.
             The unknown enviroment is less comforting and before entering situations we trust the gained experience and knowledge from people within that unknown eviroment, or people who have made a study of the general behaviour of groups within a society contructed on social, religious and ethnic grounds, which are the basic building blocks of human society itself. In the less comforting unknown enviroment we do not have enough time to gain the pshycological (pseude included) or physical knowledge of the individual within that society and can only focus on the broader band of information necessary for a clearer understanding of the social, religious and ethic behaviour of groups within a bigger society. Thereby we can define a word and definition in which we have the understanding of the above mentioned, namely; Stereotypes.
             2. Stereotypes in Ancient Near East:
             Stereotyping is never a neutral thing,and this we can see by looking at Mesopotamia and seeing how they saw other cultures,and placed themselves more importantly (sterotyped themselves) higher than the rest of the world known to them.The Mesopotamian people believed that they were civilized and stereotyped the rest of the "non-urban" people as uncultured and uncivilized.Their literature made them "superior"They used eloquent language and mastered the art of effective speaking,using repitition such as :"It's old women were given counsel,it's old men were given eloquence,it's maidens were given playgrounds.In these literary texts we see clear signs of how Sumerians stereotyped people from rural or farm areas."He is dressed in sheep skins,he lives in tents in wind and rain." " He eats raw meat,lives his life without a home and when he dies he is not buried according to proper rituals"See...