Stereotype
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A stereotype is used to catergorize a group of people. People dont understand that type of person, so they put them into classifications, thinking that everyone who is that needs to be like that, or anyone who acts like their classifications is one.
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A term used to define all people of a certain belief into a mostly negative category that may only reflect a selected few of the racial demographics. All people of all nationalities have been victims of being stereotyped, even those whom have made most of the stereotypes of other people.
Note: Most stereotypes are involuntarily lived out by a small segment of who they are made to offend. Here are a few examples of stereotypes. -
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A commonly-held view about a particular group of people e.g. a nation, social group, religion etc... Often incorrect and/or offensive.
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What teenagers use to catagorize everybody so they can get higher in the social food chain.
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an assumption of a certain group of ppl. the simpsons area perfect example of a stereotypical town. where homer is the fat lazy husband with a dead end job, marge is the housewife that doesnt have a life outside the house, bart is the trouble maker boy, lisa is the forgotten, misunderstood girl, maggie is the quiet baby who never speaks, mr. burns is the evil bossman, apu is the foreign shop keeper, and the polie are lazy ppl who eat donuts all day. all the other characters are self explanitory.
stereotypes seem to be an alternative to ppl who dun weanna get to know other ppl. so they classify them with out gettin the facts.
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A label, usually used negatively towards a person or a group of people, race, religion, or orientation.
Usually people who stereotype (95% of the people on this website) need a reality check, for sure.
Stereotypers most commonly assume things like, Oh my God, shes Canadian so she must say eh after everything! or Hes Irish, hes gonna be a drunk!.
Most of them, stop after awhile and grow up.
Some intill it into their children, and
there goes the intelligence of another
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A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or
of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate
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A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
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a set idea that people have about what someone or something is like, especially an idea that is wrong:
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