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Why do we ignore stereotypes when they are fact?

mizzou

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What stereotypes have you, from your own personal experience, been able to corroborate as basically fact in your own eyes? This is not to incite some type of hate or anything, but I find it curiously odd that we don't think that race is somehow tied into culture and culture is somehow tied into how we behave in life. Nobody behaves identically alike so it's impossible to say "A people behaves like their people", since that is in association, false

Stereotypes are only what you yourself see with your "blinders" on. Otherwise you just won't believe them. But curious as it is, you sometimes find yourself listening to other people discuss the same type of stereotypes.

Add in more and more people with "blinders" on, and eventually you might be able to get a glimpse of the bigger picture.



My following stereotypes that may as well be fact to me, but have also heard many others talk about. Yet the logical part of me wants to say that it is impossible for related/assocaited people to behave generally in the same way when they don't know each other. Can these be proven wrong or true?



Stereotype #1. Asian women are generally slow and unsafe drivers.
- I can't think of a scenario where I had looked in my rear-view mirror to thank a friendly driver or admire someones skill and seen a Asian woman behind the wheel.

Stereotype #2. Poor white people in trailor parks generally have an extraordinary amount of people with blonde hair
-Just an observation, which is what a stereotype is

Stereotype #3. Black people are generally the hardest employees/students to motivate
-A widely held stereotype among many people, including myself.

Stereotype #4. White children who are "white trash" tend to scream alot. And scream very loudly, during disapproval, fear, enjoyment, and just for the heck of it.

Stereotype #5. Affluent white children are apathetic and complacent.
-Just listen to them bitch and moan about how stupid someone is, how horrible something is, blah blah blah.

Stereotype #6. Government workers have generally horrible customer service skills, especially when their job relies on customer service.
-This is proven fact.



 

mizzou

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Originally posted by: HopJokey
Users with the "African American" avatar are typically trolls.

I think this is a long-proven fact held in multiple threads. Black man avatar is the bane of sane foruming
 

venkman

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people who spend to much time on the internet are either horribly overweight or disgustingly underweight.
 

ConstipatedVigilante

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Originally posted by: venkman
people who spend to much time on the internet are either horribly overweight or disgustingly underweight.

I think I'm around normal, actually.

French people are snobby and rude.
 

MagnusTheBrewer

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Stereotypes are like statistics, they only apply to entire populations. For individuals, they are worthless.
 

swbsam

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Originally posted by: Insomniator
Black people are loud in movie theaters

White people can't dance

/thread

Then explain Justin Timberlake? That cracka' has MAD skills
 

ShawnD1

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Originally posted by: venkman
people who spend to much time on the internet are either horribly overweight or disgustingly underweight.
I agree with this one. I'm horribly underweight and my best friend is horribly overweight.

I have one that doesn't really count as a stereotype, but I swear every man driving a minivan looks very angry. Oh and people who drive minivans really don't know how to drive; they drive as if the thing has no power at all even though most of them can do 0-60 in about 11 seconds (still slow, but it's a lot better than what I'm seeing).
 

ryan256

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The problem with many stereotypes is I keep seeing them proved true over and over by the behaviors of the people they are stereotyping.

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Stereotypes are like statistics, they only apply to entire populations. For individuals, they are worthless.

Very true and nicely said.
 

Svnla

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Stereotypes are facts on the intaweb. Everyone knows that.

:disgust:
 

lokiju

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Inner city youth look to emulate the "thug" or "Hip hop" mentality by the way they present themselves. At least around here (ATL in the city) it's not race specific either, all races appear to do so more so than in the suburban areas from what I can see out my car window as I'm driving around.
 

AstroManLuca

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There are a lot of Somalis where I live (Minneapolis) and a ton of them are terrible drivers, especially the women. Then again, this is probably an example of confirmation bias because it's more likely that immigrants in general are bad drivers; Somalis are just really easy to spot (especially the women because they wear headscarves).