doom wrote: I guess I will try to use better grammar. Everything has a stereotype, and, like I, the only bad type is when it tries to hurt or attack people.
Any better?
Hope I don't offend you by trying to help. If it doesn't, I wish the best of luck to you for learning a little by example since most forumgoers here seem relatively educated. Not many "OMG steam r0xorz tehb ig one!!!111"- they tend to not stay anyways.
Yeah I guess the only stereotypes that are remotely usable are ones that are almost completely untrue and very obviously so. Like, "Canadians and their penguins and polar bears"...just beecause they're up north doesn't mean they have polar bears living among them. Polar bears, I believe, live way too far north, and penguins don't live in the north at all but rather at the south. I imagine lower Canada has summers sometimes surpassing 80 degrees F (27? C)
Hmm, another odd view: Poeple tend to assume that reversing generalizations yields the same effect.
The average NBA player is 6'9(2.05m). Those people are supposd to come less than 1 in 10,000. For adult men, 6'2(1.87m) is in the top 5%(out of 100 average American men, that means about 5 are taller than you are), 6'7(sorry no more metric) is about 1 in 5,000 in the USA. If you look at an NBA roster, like any team will have an average height of at least 6'7, and there'll only be 3 people less than 6'3 which is still past the top 5%. Just look on the court and they're all around the same. So hencee
"All"(98%) [pro] basketball players are tall.
Therefore, all tall people are basketball players.
Thta's the assumption people make; reversing a statement should not change the trueness. While being tall just makes playing basketball much easier, a shorter person with immense skill can beat a taller person with moderate skill. All skill and ability being equal, a taller person is always better. Most people over 6'7 you meet won't be particularly coordinated or in good physical shape, be it strength, agility, endurance, or coordination. You could tip them with one finger. But every so often you get a tall person who does like basketball and plays and practices often. That accounts for maybe 20% of very tall people.
And yet another view
Face it. People are mostly lazy bums. They take the path of least resistance, whether it's walking around a wall, or worse yet doing drugs. So at that people want the easiest way to know someone, and that is to apply a stereotype. They don't want to take all the time to know every 10,000 people they meet a year (jsut a guess). So they'll assume a generalizaztion fits all, even if it's true for only 55%, an insignificant majority. If you meet someone who doesn't use stereotypes at all or very sparingly("Hmm, this guy looks Mexican. I'll guess he might know Spanish but I'll see if he speaks it with his friends") cherish it, because this person is probably hard working and caring. At least to a higher extent.
(Simon you want long post? Feat your eyes on this! I've got long posts that make long posts. I'm a long post man, long post long post.  )
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Kentucky never succeded from the Union... take a History class... 
