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[[Political correctness]] is an attempt to ban all stereotypes from speech, even stereotypes useful to guard against danger.  For example, political correctness opposes any type of profiling based on national origin or religion, even if the profiling would make it easier to screen and stop terrorism.  Under this view, airports must consider an 80-year-old nun to be as likely to be a terrorist as a group of 20-year-old male radicals.

[[Political correctness]] is an attempt to ban all stereotypes from speech, even stereotypes useful to guard against danger.  For example, political correctness opposes any type of profiling based on national origin or religion, even if the profiling would make it easier to screen and stop terrorism.  Under this view, airports must consider an 80-year-old nun to be as likely to be a terrorist as a group of 20-year-old male radicals.

Psychologists have shown that stereotypes nonetheless are helpful for human beings - it helps cut down on the information to be processed if the brain can make assumptions about a person upon first meeting, thus preserving processing power.  As a result, stereotyping is unlikely to disappear.

Psychologists have shown that stereotypes are nonetheless helpful for human beings - it helps cut down on the information to be processed if the brain can make assumptions about a person upon first meeting, thus preserving processing power.<ref>http://www.simplypsychology.org/katz-braly.html</ref> As a result, stereotyping is unlikely to disappear.

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