The thing is, if GameCrush's claims are true, the stereotypes are holding a lot of water.

But that stereotype does not quite hold true in the United States and other countries where the Web found an early audience.

We have learned from contact and communication that the negative stereotypes don't hold water.

The stereotype that terrorists are driven to extremes by economic deprivation may never have held anywhere, least of all in the Middle East.

That stereotype no longer holds at the best East End restaurants, but Saracen is a throwback.

In the Northern Virginia Campaign of August 1862 this stereotype did not hold true.

According to Catalyst, a group that monitors how women are treated in the workplace, stereotypes have held the brokers back.

The stereotypes still hold, with the notable exception that the Americans are no longer the ones with money.