Talk:Ethnic joke

At the moment, this article is both Western-centric and recentist. I'd be interested to know:

Are ethnic jokes universal, or do some cultures not have them? If they don't, do they have something else instead?
What are the ethnic jokes told by non-Western cultures about Westerners, and about one another?
What were the equivalents in the ancient world, where most people rarely saw people from other places? Did they tell similar jokes about the people from the next village?
What about cultures with caste structures? Are such jokes told, or are they taboo? Are they told both "up" and "down" the caste hierarchy?
What about tribal cultures?
How about segmentary lineage cultures?
What are the relationships between ethnic jokes and jokes based on other distinctions such as sex, class and religion?
Are there reciprocal relationships in such stereotypes; for example, if group A tell jokes in which group B are misers, do B then tell jokes in which A are spendthrifts? Or is there no such relationship?
Are there any cycles in the "stupid people joke" graph, where two groups tell stupid people jokes about another, or longer cycles where (for example) group A tells stupid people jokes about B, who tell stupid people jokes about C, who tell stupid people jokes about A...?
Are appearance-based jokes such as blonde jokes becoming more common as a reaction to the recent taboo against racist jokes, as the joke forms are simply reused against new targets that avoid the stigma of racism?

-- The Anome 10:40, 19 June 2007 (UTC)