STEREOTYPE

[noun] [C] [disapproving] - (a person or thing that represents) a fixed set of ideas that is generally held about the characteristics of a particular type of person or thing, which are (wrongly) believed to be shared by all the people and things of that typeMany teachers and parents are concerned that racist stereotypes are being passed on to children through toys and books.She was surprised at how her children's behaviour seemed to follow sexual stereotypes.There are still advertisements which draw on the old stereotypes of women obsessed about the cleanliness of their washing.He doesn't conform to/fit/fill the national stereotype of a Frenchman.The characters in the book are just stereotypes (= They represent fixed ideas about what people of that particular type are like).