Stereotypes (and Why I Hate Them).

[Biosophilogical]

All stereotypes about people have a grain of truth in them somewhere. They wouldn't have been invented otherwise, they are usually just over the top and too generalised.

Only a grain? I have met some people where the stereotype is a false idea (grain if you will) wrapped heavily in excessive amounts of unbearably irritating truth. (Not picking on what you said I just thought it was the perfect lead into this) I wonder what stereotype i fit into. If you assume that smoking pot is a lie i sort of (you can sort of force some of my attributes in) fit into a hippie thing ( mellow music, ideals, mariju...well that's all they got i'm afraid as everything else is the weed's fault) <-- deliberate narrow-minded-ness-ness...-ness.

 

[JaredXE]

A stereotype doesn't become a stereotype unless a significant portion of the population conforms to it....therefore, stereotypes are a good general indicator of who/what you are dealing with.

That said, I profile many people I encounter. I'm not one to fall for certain obvious (read:ethnic) stereotypes, but certainly culture and manner are clues to what I am dealing with.

Example: I'm walking down the street near nightfall. Walking towards me is a black man. T-shirt, jeans, sneakers. I'm not going to have that "Instinctual" fear of this guy, no matter the skin colour. Now, if I'm walking down the street and a black man walks towards me with pants half-way down his thighs, baggy Fubu shirt, a doo-rag on his head and gold tootheses....I'm gonna watch out. Not that he's GOING to rob me, it's just that he's far more LIKELY to rob me.

 

[Chrissyluky]

everyone profiles there a very few who dont. me? i tend to avoid hispanics who look intimidating not as much profiling as it is that they look intimidating though. does it make me a bad person? no. do i have friends of the hispanic nature? sure do. everyone does it just get used to it and accept it. we are all a little racist its just the extent as to how racist we are.