im still cracking up at this one dude that answered my q. he said that racial stereotypes werent racist at all they are "based on intelligent thought and observation" and then he went on to say thatpeople only use stereotypes because "A LARGE PORTION OF THAT GROUP OF PPL ACTUALLY HAVE THOSE TRAITS". i cant stop laughing. its a bitter sweet moment....
oh yes because of course a person who stereotypes has met "A LARGE PORTION" of that group of people even though there are billions of people around the world....and what he sees on television MUST be an accurate representation...therefore he can totally accurately blanket a certain race with certain characteristics .....
are you ******** serious?! lol its funny because only on this website would i hear such bullshit. where the hell do these people come from? ignorance is bliss i guess...carry on.
2007-06-13 01:04:48 · 8 answers · asked by Gone, Gone, Gone. 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Judghing anyone, based on anything is just madness. Nobody knows what kind of person you truly are, nobody can judge a persons integrity, strength, responsibility from any factors such as race , background, sexuality, job, appearance.
This world is far to diverse to me generalised. generalisations were for the 1900's not for today. Culturally and emotionally we are all, each and every one of us truly unique. Id like to know the idiot who would stand up and pass judgement/generalisations/stereotypical comments onto someone they have no idea about.
They would have to be pretty ridiculous, and stupid.
2007-06-13 01:19:54 · answer #1 · answered by Sophie 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
yes and they quote statistics, etc
they do not even realize that their focus on the NEGATIVE TRAITS of any people is racist in itself
there is nothing so unpredictable as a human...we have the ability to think and grow and change
what is true today may be for a generation (new things learned) but not for a group of people (internally)
I take each person as an individual, even with people others feel I should approach as a group (like Japanese)
always (if possible) let these people know how ignorant they are and just go on
you know, the people who make generalizations will always exist (is that stereotyping? lol)
2007-06-13 05:21:40 · answer #2 · answered by soulflower 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Racial stereotyping is a double edged sword. Please read the following:
"Steele and Joshua Aronson found that when they gave a group of Stanford undergraduates a standardized test and told them that it was a measure of their intellectual ability, the white students did much better than their black counterparts. But when the same test was presented simply as an abstract laboratory tool, with no relevance to ability, the scores of blacks and whites were virtually identical. Steele and Aronson attribute this disparity to what they call "stereotype threat": when black students are put into a situation where they are directly confronted with a stereotype about their group--in this case, one having to do with intelligence--the resulting pressure causes their performance to suffer."
Isn't that interesting? I never realized how powerful bigotry could be. I knew it had an adverse effect on the bigot but never realized it also had an adverse effect on the victim. In my own personal experience, I have always found that black people were just as capable as any other race of people. I always wondered why some people considered them less intelligent.
This study proves me right. They are not less intelligent. Of course they aren't. I have had black doctors work on me, black engineers work with me all kinds of black professionals abound. to be perfectly honest, I have found no appreciable difference in ability based on race.
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2007-06-13 04:23:18 · answer #3 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Stereotyping is inevitable. even if it is as a lot because the man about about no matter if or not they choose the individuals off of the stereotype or no matter if or not they get to understand the man till now they choose them. i imagine about the stereotype of people each of the time (that child is emo, that one is punk and so on.) yet I attempt no longer to substantiate that in my head till i fairly get to no them. individuals imagine those products, then proceed to act and choose on the stereotypes. So Stereotypes are good for sorting out about the man's outdoors visual attraction and how they convey themselves, yet they don't carry the genuine personality, for it is beneficial dig deeper.
2016-10-18 21:12:34 · answer #4 · answered by hafner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if you see a certain group acting a certain way over and over and over again doing the same things then that's where it comes from.
Even if it were 95 percent and 5 percent were not that way a liberal would race to the 5 percent and tell them to stop generalizing. Thats fine but get real...I've seen it all my life and I'm not looking for it, it comes to me. And I do take note when they don't act in a certain way. By the way, I am NOT talking about intelligence ...I believe that all races are entirely equal in that regard.
2007-06-13 05:35:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
you asked me what i think so...
a stereotype can be both true and false...it is just a common thought of same traits for groups of people.
and i don't feakin' care if someone stereotypes me..i'll freakin laugh
2007-06-13 06:24:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Props to Jacob W
and Props to you for asking this question.
I don't like stereotypes and generalizations. Makes no sense to read anything into them.
2007-06-13 04:47:54 · answer #7 · answered by New Moon Daughter 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
well he's right.
2007-06-13 01:25:02 · answer #8 · answered by John L 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋