True, and that reason is the human need for an organised world that can be predicted. It’s easier for the human brain to process people as belonging to large groups that supposedly share a set of simplified characteristics (i.e. stereotypes), than to treat each individual as separate and requiring their own category.
In other words, stereotypes come from the brain’s limited storage capacity and processing power.
I’ve danced when no one was around. I was proud of it too. Right up until someone came in and saw me spazzing like there was no tomorrow.
I fit the stereotype that white people cannot dance.
Most of us do. Stereotypes become stereotypes for a reason.
True, and that reason is the human need for an organised world that can be predicted. It’s easier for the human brain to process people as belonging to large groups that supposedly share a set of simplified characteristics (i.e. stereotypes), than to treat each individual as separate and requiring their own category.
In other words, stereotypes come from the brain’s limited storage capacity and processing power.