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The human mind can not function without the capability to discern and group experiences into patterns and categories. This is an evolved talent of the brain that enables you to quickly assess situations and come to decisions that enhance your survival. Furthermore, when you adopt a style of dress, a style of music, and even certain patterns of speech, you are actually intending that other people pick up on these cues and invoke whatever generalizations they may already hold. For example, gang members adopt stereotypical affectations of dress, tattoos, gestures and even cars specifically because they WANT you to assume they are gang members and therefore dangerous. While your assuming a person dressed like this is a gang member is a form of stereotyping... it is a stereotype that has been purposely adopted. Looking like a gang memeber becomes an advertisement of what that person wants you to believe about them. In this way we ALL seek to advertise information about ourselves, or influence how others react to us by manipulating other people's inborn tendency to associate experiences into groups. Rather than have to individually assess every single situation as if it were unique would take far too much attention and energy, especially when so much to those situations are NOT all that unique. Where stereotyping is a disservice is when these pre-judgments are employed to deny people equal treatment, or otherwise make unfair or invalid assessments. However... no matter how much people complain about stereotyping, there are no people who do not employ stereotype. We can not help that we do it... its the way we make sense of the world. However, that does not mean we can not maintain awareness that the snap prejudments are never more than temporary assessments, always subject to revision.

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