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silverflight8) wrote2010-03-08 10:52 pm
silverflight8) wrote2010-03-08 10:52 pm
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My issue about stereotypes is that they're narrow.
The thing that stereotypes don't take into consideration is the sheer individualism of the people in a group. You might find a few unifying characteristics, perhaps, but you'd be hard pressed to find a group that is so unified that they can be described by a few words alone. Stereotypes describe the image, the actions, the attitudes of a subset of a population--and then apply those labels to the rest of the population. Who cares if the subset is only two people and the whole population amounts to several hundred million people?
The thing that stereotypes don't take into consideration is the sheer individualism of the people in a group. You might find a few unifying characteristics, perhaps, but you'd be hard pressed to find a group that is so unified that they can be described by a few words alone. Stereotypes describe the image, the actions, the attitudes of a subset of a population--and then apply those labels to the rest of the population. Who cares if the subset is only two people and the whole population amounts to several hundred million people?