What are stereotypes? I think of them as labels. Because you are this way, this is what you will do, how you will act and how you will look. Its what we think of a whole group of people. "Middle easterns are terrorist" or "White people cant jump" even "Guys that like the color pink are gay".
I think that stereotypes come from when a major amount of people in a certain group conclude the same way. Its not even about a major amount of people, just when it is that particular group that participates in the "Stereotype". Stereotypes become stereotypes for a reason. If the most commonly known terrorist are of the middle eastern ethnicity, it is evident that they will be stereotyped as terrorist.
The counts of people in a group that participate in a stereotype should not be the cause of the classification of other individuals. In my opinion, if you immediately judge a person by a stereotype and conclude with that, you are a very unwise person. The most dirtiest of homeless could the be the kindest of the kind people. As for the most clean and beautiful of humans could the most filthiest and cruel of them all. Though statistics show a high percentage are like so, keep in mind that statistics don't always include everyone.
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I appreciate your distrust for statistics -- you are absolutely right. Stereotypes (and statistics) do not tell the whole story.
(and that's what we need to be about, right? Finding out the truest stories, and discovering surprises around every corner, or behind every cover.)
Your writing is starting to scare me since it shares my opinion. Well I guess great minds think a like
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