| Of course stereotypes aren`t misleading. Stereotypes are a vital brain function that is desinged to help us avoid repeating errors.
For example, I see a guy with a knife, but I treat him like a normal person. He stabs me and robs me. My brain creates a stereotype that I should avoid men with knives, because they might stab me again.
The problem comes from, not making steroetypes, but sticking to them too strictly and for too long, or perhaps when we create stereotypes that are too broad.
Let`s say the dude with the knife is Mexican. I decide to avoid all Mexicans. Then my stereotype is far too broad, I have created a stereotype that didn`t really look into the cause of the problem.
Stereotypes aren`t bad or wrong. However sometimes the way we implement them is. |