Stereotypes are Based in Facts?

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May change/be updated - still in progress - may still contain inaccuracies

Stereotypes get their basis in facts. All stereotypes start somewhere, from a certain provable fact or observation. Just as rumors start somewhere, all stereotypes have have some truths behind them.

Demographics

I am not saying that all stereotypes are true. Oh, no, I know that. However, I believe that stereotypes are not always bad. They are a valuable tool for classify and making assumptions about people. In marketing, for example, they are called demographics. These serve the purpose of stereotypes. Lower-income black men are more inclined to purchase tattoos, then whites. That's not to say whites don't purchase tattoos, they do, just not as much.

For example this data from http://www.loper.org/~george/trends/2002/Dec/28.html or http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0950/6_109/87564086/p8/article.jhtml?term= via http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=293818

Ethnicity:

• White, non-Hispanic 13.8%
• Black, non-Hispanic 19.2%
• Hispanic 11.8%
• Asian or Pacific Islander 12.3%
• Other 12.5%

Nor do you need to be low income. That, however, seems to follow the trends. Also if you observe the neighborhoods where tattoo parlors are likely to be found. Now there are some in the middle of white suburbs, like one near me, just the majority are found there.

Conform

That doesn't mean however, that you have to conform to them. Oh no! don't need to conform break out!

Dissapear

will dissapear

Closer Look

Some stereotypes, however, are just plain wrong. They are made up out of thin air. But are they stereotypes?

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