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Originally Posted by analog
Most of the reason I didn't mention the name of the thing is because my larger interest was in whether or not people would find it acceptable to label if a stereotype wasn't a stereotype, but actually true.
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So if it is fact and everyone in that culture, gender, and/or race does it, I don't know what you are talking about. Is it a way of walking? Is it that French people speak French? That is quite annoying.
If it is generally true for a group and you are putting that standard on them, you are stereotyping them. For example: People at the gym wear sweats. Now, while many people or most people wear sweats to the gym, there is always going to be someone that doesn't. Some women wear skirts to the gym, like tennis skirts.
Is it a religious practice? Is it old people driving? Is it white trash drinking cheap beer, sitting on furniture in front of their trailer, and wearing over-sized cartoon t-shirts or wife-beaters while using the word ain't for any linking and helping verb?
While some people fit that (my cousin and her husband are the latter), it isn't absolute...nothing in life fits in a neat little category that's what makes it so interesting. There is always going to be at least one person to break the rule. Everyone has prejudice thoughts involving stereotypes. It's not a bad thing unless one is ignorant and actually believes that it is absolute instead of based on one's own experiences, which in most cases are very narrow segments of the world.
If you feel that calling it a name or referring to it is wrong, then don't. Just tell us already and we can call you a racist bastard or just tell you to get over it. Or are you scared?