Where do stereo types come from?

[peeonme]

I would like to say (but can't) that it was due to subliminal messages that we have seen on tv. But they weren't and aren't subliminal at all. As a boy I saw this character many times: I didn't think much of it at the time.
Watch any crime show and see who the bad guy is, if he is rich he is a conniving white guy. Need I say who the drug dealers are shown as? If you watch Disney the native American is a bold, tall good-looking man that lives in harmony with nature, a far cry from how they were seen in the films and tv shows of the 50's and 60's. Most gays even today are shown as flamboyant effeminate men.
Anyway, I don't like Fritos or stereotypes.

 

[LeicsDom]

Humans have always looked for shortcuts to types of people or situations.

 

[Vannie]

Best Buy or Amazon.

 

[backagain]

Bigotry.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Humans have always looked for shortcuts to types of people or situations.

By the time anthropologist Margaret Mead died in 1978, she had given several television lectures on the origins of stereotypes.
And Yes Indeed, stereotypes are a kind of mental shortcut used to size up people and/or situations.

When you take heed of a stereotype and avoid trouble, the stereotype is a good thing. Odds favor a stereotype to be correct.

 

[peeonme]

I believe that we are taught about others from adults at a young age.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

If stereotypes were a benefit it must have been a long time ago.
The range of stereotypes has evolved and, as the saying goes, "too much of a good thing is a bad thing", or something like that.