i think there are stereotypes for a reason and they help people decide what might be potentially helpful or hazardous. I like agree with most of them and find them useful to fit into my schema of how things work. Why are people always trying to break down stereotypes when most of them are accurate for most populations?
2007-01-02 09:20:35 · 8 answers · asked by Justina 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I really like you're question. I feel it is a very intelligent thing to say. My thoughts exactly! I was going to send a question like this in myself.
It's not the stereotypes that are important, exactly though. You're hitting on almost exactly the right track, I feel. But go for the roles.
Roles teach us the way to live, and it is also important that not every person will fit those roles. And especially, not everyone all the time through every stage of life!
And the kind of society we had did not make way for those with individual differences, and so we often lost creative types to suicide, etc. Mental institutions.
Yet roles are important if ya don't insist on absolute conformity for eveyone. They were only developed by the majority of people doing only specific things over time. So they aren't just created, they run deep in our natures, premordially, and in the heart.
Another reason why they were broken down was that they failed to provide a decent living financially, at least under the present structure of greed we have today. The widow, divorced homemaker, unmarried women, etc.
I was going to write in, Could we find a way that one half of a couple could stay home and take a supportive role for the household, without any outside pressure to work?
I have already answered a question, that it would bring back the choice of having roles in a voluntary way, while supplying many open job positions to employ everyone remaining needing a job. I feel society would scale down economically to it.
2007-01-02 09:34:35 · answer #1 · answered by smoothsoullady 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
not really. I think stereotypes are helpful to some degree, but you shouldn't distinguish each individual by it. Unfortunately though, that rarely happens and most of the time, people get clumped into groups, and if you belong to a negative stereotype and I would come across you in real life, I think i'd get angry or disapointed.
2007-01-02 17:23:15 · answer #2 · answered by the BABY 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I "really" think its useful when managers/store workers in stores think I'm going to steal something because I'm Black and follow me around the whole place like I got a dam* knife on me. Yes, I do thinks stereotypes are useful.
If someone didn't catch the point.. I was being sarcastic.
2007-01-02 17:37:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha ha, people gonna hate you now lol. Yeah I know what you mean and I absolutely agree. There's nothing wrong with it and EVERY race has them. As long as you're not using stereotypes as the only guideline!
2007-01-02 17:23:51 · answer #4 · answered by BarbieQ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not useful in the slightest. It makes it easier to pigeon hole people and whether its true or not seems to be irrelevant. If you where a victim of stereotypes maybe your view would be totally different.
2007-01-02 17:23:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
only narrow minded people follow stereotypes... open minded people experience things for themselves and create their own opinion upon something based upon the outcomes of their experience...
2007-01-02 17:23:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, as long as it's not your only guideline, but as I read your question, it really seems that way.
2007-01-02 17:33:29 · answer #7 · answered by Suzy Suzee Sue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
white ones push and shove? black ones stab and shoot?
suck my di'ck, comprende?
2007-01-02 20:28:51 · answer #8 · answered by bananarepublic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋