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Old 10-02-03, 11:46 AM   #12
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First off. Ill-Mental you'll notice your stupid freeposts are gone. I will continue to delete any stupid freeposts. You do not have freepost immunity, and for a good reason; you can't freepost for shit.

Stereotypes are, for the majority, true. But, people need to realize that stereotypes are exactly what they are, an idea of someone or something which is the average for a certain person, type of person or type of persons. When a stereotype is founded it is usually made upon what a group of persons does in an area, race, wealth, well anything really. A stereotype of something is sound, until it is actually used to type an individual person and that is where stereotyping went astray.
A stereotype is true to all people within that stereotype, obviously. But as obvious as it is, its as though a stereotype has been interpreted as an actual truth, which it is not.
If you actually hold a stereotype of a certain person, believing that person is part of the stereotype you think they belong to, problems are sure to arise at some point in time.

Stereotyping can usually attribute itself to ignorance and fear.
Don’t talk to a person if you hold them into a category.
When you stereotype your vision decreases. It goes from 20/20 to Stupid>Smart (meaning ones stupidity now outranks ones intelligence.)
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