do you stereotype people? do you get stereotyped? what do you think?
2007-02-25 08:26:32 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
and i know that sometimes you have to stereotype people for safety! for ex. one day i saw a group of guys walking down the street i noticed that they were smoking and they were dressed in a gangster way, so i walked the other direction just to be safe!
2007-02-25 09:58:39 · update #1
Stereotyping is a required tool for living in a big city. Personally, I have enough trouble keeping track of a couple dozen friends, I do not want to try and understand several thousand individuals.
If you mean ethnic stereotyping, it is is a little more difficult. I do not know what heritage a perfect stranger has nor which ones they choose to emphasize; I can look for certain clues that they might proudly wear to help me know them quickly (if you word it carefully, most people are proud to talk about there heritage).
Making friends is basically converting a stranger (stereotype) into a person (individual).
Anyone that lives up to a stereotype (has no apparent depth) deserves to be treated as one.
Add: I grew up in the 80's when it was popular to wear lots of accouterments to express your interests: band t-shirts, political buttons, flags, patches, necklaces, earrings, etc. I could strike up a conversation with a stranger, and know that we had something in common. Some friends and I labeled this "gypsy-with-a-small-letter-g" (not the real Romany, the stereotype). Every bangle had a story.
It seems that many of the newer generation wear flair (as it has been named) for the look and that they often do not know the meaning of what they are wearing.
2007-02-25 08:39:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I admit that I have stereotyped a person before. My girlfriend and I had just got back from
shopping at the Mall. On the way back, we got a
flat tire.
We did not know how to change a tire. Anyway,
this guy stopped by. He had tattoes and piercing
all over his body and he had a shaved head. We
kind of froze up when he asked us if we needed
help. He helped us started talking about how he
walks in christ. We had a good talk that day and
learned a good lesson. We don't stereotype any-
more. Thank you God for showing us, you put people in our way to teach us things.
2007-02-25 16:39:55 · answer #2 · answered by Catswoman1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think to some extent its necessary but not based on race
2007-02-25 16:53:07 · answer #3 · answered by rostov 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋