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    John Agard - Stereotype

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    John Agard's poem is about embracing and subverting stereotypes of West Indians. Over the course of the poem, the speaker declares himself to be a "full-blooded West Indian stereotype" and then proceeds to engage with and confirm various stereotypical questions and assumptions from an implied interrogator about things like limbo dancing, calypso singing, partying, and cricket. However, in the final lines the speaker reveals that he also has a degree from Oxford University in anthropology, subverting the stereotype.

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    John Agard's poem is about embracing and subverting stereotypes of West Indians. Over the course of the poem, the speaker declares himself to be a "full-blooded West Indian stereotype" and then proceeds to engage with and confirm various stereotypical questions and assumptions from an implied interrogator about things like limbo dancing, calypso singing, partying, and cricket. However, in the final lines the speaker reveals that he also has a degree from Oxford University in anthropology, subverting the stereotype.

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    John Agard's poem is about embracing and subverting stereotypes of West Indians. Over the course of the poem, the speaker declares himself to be a "full-blooded West Indian stereotype" and then proceeds to engage with and confirm various stereotypical questions and assumptions from an implied interrogator about things like limbo dancing, calypso singing, partying, and cricket. However, in the final lines the speaker reveals that he also has a degree from Oxford University in anthropology, subverting the stereotype.

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    John Agard - Stereotype

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    Owen Whitehead-Edwards
    John Agard's poem is about embracing and subverting stereotypes of West Indians. Over the course of the poem, the speaker declares himself to be a "full-blooded West Indian stereotype" and then proceeds to engage with and confirm various stereotypical questions and assumptions from an implied interrogator about things like limbo dancing, calypso singing, partying, and cricket. However, in the final lines the speaker reveals that he also has a degree from Oxford University in anthropology, subverting the stereotype.

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    John Agard

    Stereotype

    I'm a full-blooded
    West Indian stereotype
    See me straw hat?
    Watch me good

    I'm a full-blooded
    West Indian stereotype
    You ask
    if I got riddum
    in me blood
    You going ask!
    Man just beat the drum
    and don't forget
    to pour de rum

    I'm a full-blooded
    West Indian stereotype
    You say
    I suppose you can show
    us the limbo, can't you?
    How you know!
    How you know!
    You sure
    you don't want me
    sing you a calypso too
    How about that

    I'm a full-blooded
    West Indian stereotype
    You call me happy-go-lucky
    Yes that’s me
    dressing fancy
    and chasing women
    if you think ah lie
    bring yuh sister

    I'm a full-blooded
    West Indian stereotype
    You wonder
    where do you people
    get such riddum
    could it be the sunshine
    My goodness
    listen to the steelband

    Isn't there one thing


    you forgot to ask
    This native will
    How about cricket?
    I suppose you're good at it?
    Hear this man
    good at it!
    Put de willow in me hand
    and watch me stripe
    de boundary

    Yes I'm a full blooded


    West Indian stereotype

    That’s why I
    graduated from Oxford
    University
    with a degree
    in anthropology

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