Letters To The Editor
Stereotyping
It is entirely normal to harbor preconceived ideas and suppositions about various demographic groups. Not fair and just, but normal.
We cannot possibly know all the members of a demographic group, so we draw conclusions about the entire group based on those members of the group we observe, and those members of the group with whom we have personal dealings. We assume the actions and behaviors were derived from a common cultural group ethos.
Group social cohesion depends upon a common unwritten code of behavior (lex non scripta), and politically incorrect upstream swimmers sooner or later wind up being social outcasts from the group. So it should come as no surprise when we judge the many on the basis of only a few.
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