Don’t fall into my stereotype of you

15Sep06

I’m starting to think that people get all worked up about stereotypes because they are true. I mean if they are so ridiculous that they are not true, why would people waste their time and energy trying to get rid of them…what’s the harm in them if they aren’t true? Then it would just be a big inside joke with that group of people. But sometimes I look into the stereotypes and I realize that sometimes they have an ounce of truth. It’s like when you look to get a dog and they tell you that a certain behavior is “characteristic of the breed”. If we can do that with dogs, why is it not ok to do that with people?

I really don’t think there is such a person who is not racist or discriminatory to some degree. Although, maybe it’s not about being racist, maybe it’s about being socially and culturally aware.

I was just thinking that if we didn’t have stereotypes and we didn’t make distinctions between different groups of people, then we wouldn’t have any cultural diversity or identity. It’s funny how people who are different make a big deal about being different and they want to maintain their differences but they also want to be fully assimilated into the general society and treated equally and like everyone else. But then as soon as you do that, they lose their specialness. The fact that they are different is no longer important and people start to wonder what their true identity is. You can’t have it both ways. Either accept the fact that everyone is different and embrace those differences, or accept the fact that eventually everyone will end up as some sort of “mutt” and no one will have any real racial or cultural identity and all those dreams about equality for all will finally be realized. Or not. People always find something to complain about other people about. I know I do.

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