In class last Tuesday I feel like we hit a really interesting topic with the discussion of stereotypes. When a person is viewed by other people, they are eventually put in to a certain group that the viewers think they should be in. It seems that grouping people due to our first impressions of how they act or what they may look like has become somewhat habitual for society today. I can admit that this is something I am guilty of doing every so often but at the same time it is something I don't even realize I'm always doing. This idea of not knowing that I am stereotyping people when I meet them makes me definitely wonder about things. Can we actually stop ourselves from categorizing people when we first meet them?
I feel like this would be an extremely hard thing to do, especially due to the fact that personally I don't even realize when I'm doing it at times. Then there is the fact that at first, majority of the time only you know what you are thinking about the person you are stereotyping. The only way in which it would be known that you categorized the person is if you were to take the next step and act upon your thoughts. Regardless if it was a good thing or bad thing, it could be told by the way you treat the person. That brings up another question..is it always bad to categorize a person?
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