what's stereotype and double standard?
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'Stereotype' is when you take a common group known for a particular characteristic, and labelling all that fall into that group as being the same.\ne.g.  'All men are pigs' is stereotyping men. Just because a lot of guys are pigs doesn't make all of them pigs.\n\nA 'double standard' is a situation where what is good for one group does not seem as good for another group.\ne.g.  When guys sleep around (idiot guys) they are considered studs(by other idiot guys) but when women sleep around, they are considered sluts(again by idiot guys)... but this is what would be considered a double standard.\nWhat's good for the guys is not good for the girls.
1053404
Stereotypes are considered to be a group concept, held by one social group about another. They are often used in a negative or prejudicial sense and are frequently used to justify certain discriminatory behaviours. More benignly, they may express sometimes-accurate folk wisdom about social reality.\n\nOften a stereotype is a negative caricature or inversion of some positive characteristic possessed by members of a group, exaggerated to the point where it becomes repulsive or ridiculous.\n\nStereotype production is based on:\n\nSimplification \nExaggeration or distortion \nGeneralization \nPresentation of cultural attributes as being 'natural'. \n\nStereotypes are seen by many as undesirable beliefs which can be changed through education and/or familiarization. However, stereotypes need not be confined to negative characterizations about individuals or groups, and can thus have positive characterizations.\n\nThere are also genuinely positive stereotypes about groups. Some groups have, as a deliberate political strategy, tried to evolve new genuine positive stereotypes for themselves.\n\nSome common stereotypes:\nThe miserly Jewish person\nThe effeminate homosexual\nThe hillbilly redneck
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Well generalizations/ stereotypes come from some basis of truth but that leads to a mistaken belief that covers 100% of the race that stereotype is attached to.  Even a tribe of people deep in the Amazon could have given type of feature but I'll bet at least a few of them don't fit it completely. Humans are a mixed up bag of personalities aren't they ;-)
912028
unfortunately, we have a thing for the "misunderstood" stereotype. it really sucks. i blame it on popular media.\n\ndont worry about it. be yourself.
1157830
All people are equal,\nyet not all are treated equal.\n\nAnd that is the difference.
199633
I think the biggest impact stereotyping has in organizations, is that people don't live up to their potential when you label them and stick them in a box.  They see their role to specifically and don't try to reach above that to see what else they might be able to achieve.  It creates a sort of caste system, making it difficult for people to interact with others above or below them in the system.  It can cause disatisfaction and frustration when others don't recognize the abilities of one stereotyped, outside of the label that has already been given them!
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I'm black and I see nothing wrong with being proud to be white or black.  You should be proud of who you are.  But yes, it is a double standard in society.  I think that if more whites did not worry about being politically correct and say what you feel, sooner or later blacks would just "get over it".  But since we rarely hear whites show their pride, it's received the wrong way.  Any type of racial double standards are based on our own ignorance.
105209
Just as you state that some stereotypes are accurate there are just as many, if not more, that are inaccurate. In other words, there is no validity to a stereotyping and it breeds on ignorance.
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You're exactly right. \n\nStereotyping and generalizing is not wrong, its just very broad, and not always entirely accurate. To say that 'most people have 2 eyes' is a stereotype, and a generalization. \n\nTo discriminate and to judge is also to determine what is right and wrong. I don't know anybody that doesn't have at least some type of morals or standards. Where would society be if we didn't look at a particular situation and say "Thats simply wrong" ? \n\nGood stuff. Keep up the interesting and truly thought provoking questions.
541041
Double standard,envy ...
155037
Depends on the context it is said. Assumed, ignored, belittled, generalized, stereotyped, etc.
983559
To answer this question would mean to stereotype... It's best not to judge people before knowing them.  I think that you are putting yourself in danger by dropping your guard agaisnt certain people when the fact of the matter is that on an indivual level we are all capable of acting and behaving in similar ways.\n\nGreat question though!  Really gets ya' thinking
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Yes, it is a double standard. But an understandable one, IMO. When seeing two guys together, you think of the sexual implications, and they generally aren't very pleasant. With women it is different. Women are by far the fairer sex, and the view of what they'd do together is much less "intense" so to speak. Just to clarify, I have no problem at all with someone being gay, bi, or lesbian. I can't afford to. ;P
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Stereotypes are always from the same root:  ignorance.  It is a way for people to explain something they do not understand; that is different from their way of doing things, or different from themselves.\n\nSome common stereotypes debunked:\n\nBlack people love eating fried chicken and watermelon.  Well, I'm white and love both.  I bet a lot of people on here are white and like them too!  \n\nLatinoes are lazy.  I believe that stereotype is a reaction to a sense that jobs are being stolen by this particular group of people.  If they were really so lazy, why would an employer hire them?  In my experience working with people of various races, Latinoes work just as well as anyone else.  It is a matter of individual merit.\n\nGerman women are excellent housekeepers.  Not if you look at my best friend's house!  hehehe\n\nStereotypes are foolish ideas, created by foolish people.\n\nSue
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It's just a stereotype.  "We develop stereotypes when we are unable or unwilling to obtain all of the information we would need to make fair judgments about people or situations." (mostly unwilling)
1074331
Nothing! Why don't people just stop labeling other people? Seriously. It's really immature not to see past the "stereotype" and see we're all different and special in our own way. grow up people.
743555
none,and remember there are many categories of stereotyping,I'm sure theres one for all of us!