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sterotypes

  • 22-08-2011 3:49pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    How do we form sterotypes and why do we do it?

    For example say your were chatting to someone on line but you had never met them, they say to you I believe in eating a wheat free, sugar free, vegan diet!
    and I go to to go to a b.y.o.b music collective for nights out, you would almost instinctual form an opinion about what sort of person they were, yet you have never seen them nor met them in real life.


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  • #2
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,531 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    WE learn them through society and the media. Yawn :pac:


  • #3
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    You just accidentally your own question.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I was trying to explain something to some one and the main person in the story was as I described...the person I was talking to stops me and said were they a crusty ' I cant stand them'....the person I was talking about is far from a crusty but because of the things I said the person I was talking to assumed they were even though they had never met them.


  • #5
    themadchef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,813 ✭✭✭themadchef


    It's just so easy to stick people into tiny boxes marked "geek" "weirdo" "roide" "must stalk"

    It's Monday ffs, boxes are good.


  • #6
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    themadchef wrote: »
    It's Monday ffs, boxes are good.

    I have no idea what this means. :pac:


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  • #7
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    Sony
    Bose
    Harmon Kardon
    B&W........


  • #8
    Rockery Woman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 593 ✭✭✭Rockery Woman


    Living in the mountains, currently wearing check shirt, jeans... yup Im your stereotypical Rockery Woman :D

    Yiz all love me though - I know yiz do!!!!:pac::pac::pac:


  • #9
    py2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,844 ✭✭✭py2006


    We derive stereotypes from our experiences of people/objects etc. It tends to form the general consensus aswell.


  • #10
    saywhatyousee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭saywhatyousee


    As the oul saying goes "The problem with sterotypes is there usually true"


  • #11
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    most of them are based in truth, lets be honest. exceptions to every rule and all that but c'mon, is it really that un-pc to say something like French people are rude (they can be), Germans love putting towels on sundbed (anyone who's ever gone on a sun holiday...anywhere, will attest to this) etc etc.

    here's a crazy one, Irish people love a bit of drink

    *runs at outrageous racist statement*


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  • #12
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    Why?
    Because we like to compartmentalise things based on our own perspectives, based on prior experiences in order to easily make sense of things and support our world views.
    Simples.


  • #13
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Rockery Woman wrote: »
    Living in the mountains, currently wearing check shirt, jeans... yup Im your stereotypical Rockery Woman :D

    Yiz all love me though - I know yiz do!!!!:pac::pac::pac:

    Ah the good aul Amazonian "Yiz" tribe...terribly nice fellows but I think they're extinct now. Died from contracting a clatter of STI's...too much love you see...too much love...

    RIP


  • #14
    sheesh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭sheesh


    because I don't have time/interest to find out what these people are really like I assign them a particular grouping I have already in my mind.

    I have no interest in finding out what they are really like.


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