Tagged: Stereotypes
You hear it again and again. "Because (this badly behaved person) did (this) therefore all people in (group) are (that)." People get in an uproar when it's said about certain protected groups, and rightly so, but using the same logic in the opposite direction is just as destructive, and certainly does not give them…
Eliminating Stereotypes Through Stories
The only way to get past stereotypes is to become human, and to become human means telling your stories, which makes you unique and relatable and real in other people's eyes.
Eliminating Stereotypes
The ability humans have to group similar things together assists us in our learning process but that same process can also blind us from the true nature of things. The most annoying and potentially most dangerous manifestation of that is stereotypes and assumptions about a person based on various input (race, class, color, creed, gender,…
Talking about Groups
The challenge faced when talking about groups is that they are made up of individuals, each of which are unique in their own right. Any stereotype or generalization is...
Me & Stereotypes
Anyone who thinks I am like some stereotype they have in their head, does not know me, not even a little.