@Roxanne Starr: @Roxanne Starr said:
@redleigh86 said:
@Roxanne Starr said:
@spiderbat87:
The British may have the best teeth NOW.
But the stereotype started a long time ago...that's why it's called a stereotype...It happened over time.
BTW...all stereotypes are ROOTED in the trust. (That means that when they got started, they were true.)
No, that's not always true. Many stereotypes were formed based on misinformation, misunderstandings, an unwillingness to understand, and outright prejudice/bigotry. The definition of "stereotype" is a simplified conception based on prior assumption, but what you are saying is that all those assumptions are/were true... when they're not. Get it?
Stereotypes have nothing to do with assumptions. They evolve from observation...but assumptions keep stereotype alive.
It's the old "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...it's a duck" scenario.
That is still not true. An example:
There is/was a stereotype that certain aboriginal tribes practice cannibalism. This was believed to be true because they wore what looked like human teeth on a necklace. The truth was later learned that these were in fact the teeth of their ancestors, not acquired via cannibalization. The fact the stereotype evolved to the idea of cannibalization was because of an assumption.
Some stereotypes may be based on observation (which still doesn't negate the idea that assumptions were made based on that observation, leading to the stereotype), but not all. Not all stereotypes are assumptions, not all assumptions are stereotypes, but sometimes a stereotype is because of an assumption.
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