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Stereotypes (or "characterizations") are generalizations or assumptions that people make about the characteristics of all members of a group, based on an image (often wrong) about what people in that
Read more about stereotypes in everyday life in the Boundless open textbook.
by Tom Jacobs Unfair and offensive as they may be, stereotypes are ubiquitous. Logic tells us it’s ludicrous to label all, or most, members of a particula…
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We asked people in BuzzFeed's U.K. office to tell us what stereotypes they had of every state in the U.S.A. Here are their responses. We're so terribly sorry, America.
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We’ve all heard them, and we’ve all done it. Even the most politically correct among us has thought at least one of the stereotypes on this list.