Recently, during my English language classes, some of the students have argued that “Italians love their mums more than they love their women”. Furthermore, some of them appeared to think that we “are gay” and/or that we “are stupid”.
Fascinated by such a smooth emergence of clever stereotypes, I devised the following 90-minute-lesson on the hot subject of “national stereotypes”: ………………………………………………………
after starting with a brainstorming on Italy, Denmark, France, England and Germany (food, footballers and cars played the main role in the activity), I briefly showed this website: http://alphadesigner.com/project-mapping-stereotypes.html?ref=nf and these two “maps” (“Europe according to the US”; “Europe according to Germany”) extracted from the same pages: 
After commenting the “maps” all together, I told the joke: “In heaven, the cops are British, the lovers are French, the food is Italian, the cars are German, and the whole thing is run by the Swiss. In hell, the cops are German, the lovers are Swiss, the food is British, the cars are French, and the whole thing is run by the Italians” and asked the pupils to “complete” it by introducing the Danes in it (see: JOKEactivity), both in Heaven and in Hell.
After that, I presented the core of the lesson, which can be viewed in the attached file: Activity_MainFile. It deals with common and well-spread prejudices regarding militaristic Germans, dirty Frenchmen, lazy Spaniards, unemotional Englishmen, boring Canadians, and so on, and so on….
After completing the reading and discussion of the above mentioned text, in the next (and last) activity of the lesson the danish students had to introduce in the joke the Irish, the Spanish and the Swedish: JOKEactivity
Political and moral philosophy 