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Regardless of the "positive" or "negative" nature of the stereotype, the problem with stereotyping is that it has the practical effect of forcing one's own perceptions of a group onto its members, who will not all share the trait being imputed to them. Negative stereotypes can be damaging.
Regardless of the "positive" or "negative" nature of the stereotype, the problem with stereotyping is that it has the practical effect of forcing one's own perceptions of a group onto its members, who will not all share the trait being imputed to them. Negative stereotypes can be damaging.
Many outside the United States have a stereotype that all Americans are wealthy. While many Americans are rich, particularly compared to the rest of the world, by no means are all Americans wealthy. [[Cho Seung-Hui]] murdered 32 people at Virginia Tech based in part of his stereotype of them as "rich kids," when many were not.
Many outside the United States have a stereotype that all Americans are wealthy. While many Americans are rich, particularly compared to the rest of the world, by no means are all Americans wealthy. [[Seung-Hui Cho]] murdered 32 people at Virginia Tech based in part of his stereotype of them as "rich kids," when many were not.
[[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.