36 Quotes About Stereotyping

Stereotypes die hard, but they must, otherwise people will.

But I do hold the view that we need to rethink and revise our picture of the Romani people and to move away from the literary images and brands, and on to understanding the real everyday lives and aspirations of a real people.

The Anti-Stereotype SonnetBlack is not evil.White is not trash.Brown is not illegal.Muslims don’t crash.Women ain't weak.Jews ain't greedy.Men ain't playboys.Queer ain't sickly.Hijab is not oppression.Hourglass ain't beauty.Faith is not delusion.Atheists don't lack morality.Assumptions only reveal shallowness.Beyond stereotypes lies humaneness.

Be generous, Sir Samuel. TRULY treat all men equally. Allow Klatchians the right to be scheming bastards, hmm?

[...] we argue against the false equivalency of viewing anti-immigrant and pro-integration laws in the same light: the former often play on misperception and group stereotypes and explicitly call out particular groups for differential treatment. By contrast, many of the integrationist measures passed by state legislatures have couched their policies in universalistic terms, and often do not make reference to particular classes of persons.

ʺThey are all the same!ʺ Is the cruelestgallows humankind ever built. - On Stereotypes and SweepingStatements

I didn’t mean it like that. It’s just – how can your friends expect people to treat them like individuals if they dress like stereotypes? The same reason you expect to be treated like an individual even though you look like a stereotype.

The human compulsion to group people and objects together was ingrained in our being since we evolved. We need to group things, group the dangerous and unknown from the 'safe to eat' or the 'it won't eat you' categories. Without the ability to categorise these threats, our ancestors wouldn't have survived.

There seems to be an unspoken assumption that women aren't interested in horror and speculative fiction, despite ample evidence to the contrary.