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Originally Posted by billege
you see loud black people, you go: "see, more loud black people." But, you don't view the same group of loud white people in the same theory-proving way.
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In psychology, this is called Selective Perception.
An example:
One day, someone you know buys a red Hyundai. In the following few days you notice while driving around that a lot of people own red Hyundais. In fact, you see so many of them it's like they've all suddenly appeared out of nowhere and are now everywhere you look.
In reality, there aren't any more red Hyundais on the roads than there were before, you're just
selectively perceiving them. In other words, you make special note of red Hyundais now when you probably wouldn't have given a moment's thought to them before.
Now, you might've heard a comedy routine or seen a movie parody where people talk to the movie screen, and you've mentally associated the actors' behavior with their skin color. Then, in public you're more likely to selectively perceive the people of that same skin color exhibiting that behavior, despite the fact that people of all different colors behave in equally stupid ways.
My point is that the color of your skin doesn't determine how you behave in a movie theatre. Only an ignorant, prejudicious bigot thinks it does.
That's just my educated opinion.