Yorkshire Stereotype

Representations of Yorkshire
In this task I will be looking at how Yorkshire, mostly in T.V but film as well, is represented and stereotyped, to do this I have looked into a few T.V programmes set in Yorkshire as well as generally looking into some Yorkshire stereotypes.

After watching a few episodes of “I Didn’t Know You Cared” it was very easy to notice some of the Yorkshire stereotypes which they had created, take one of the main characters for example, “Carter Branden” who uses what is considered to be “Yorkshire language” with such phrases and words as “Bloody”, “By eck!”, “now then” etc.

Another programme that can be compared to “I Didn’t Know You Card” is “Last of the Summer Wine” which again is set in Yorkshire, and set around the countryside involving characters based on farmland, which is a very common stereotype surrounded with Yorkshire.



An interesting source for stereotypes on Yorkshire people is this comedy sketch created by monty python, where it focuses in on the point that Yorkshiremen smoke cigars and drink whisky whilst using language such as “I” and “eck”, they also focus on “tea” as something that Yorkshire people also drink.