Stereotyping...have you done it?

I've stereotyped people before but it's not good. I don't wanna judge others by how they look because most of the time I'm wrong.

I don't think that I do.. I've always been on the receiving end of judgement. In my life I'm judged on a DAILY basis. I'm judged from the way that I look, what I choose to laugh about and how I talk. But it really doesn't matter to me.. I know what lies beneath the cover of the book that my soul has written.

I have been judged before by my appearance. People have often underestimated me and to be honest..it has even hurt my feelings when I was younger.

Guys with one earring = gay? I am tempted several times to judge people as they looked. I still do, but I kept my thought myself, and tried to see/know more of the person by talking.

I think it's human nature to stereotype people. Im guilty of that. But no one, to the best of my knowledge, has stereotyped me yet. Lol. Or Im just not aware of it... You lived in a trailer before? Wow that's cool. Ive always wanted to try that. Though I think it's a little scary and a bit unsafe. But that would be really cool. In our country, trailers dont really exist. At least not the one where you can live in.

That is sad when people do that.I've heard all of those statements before. It really surprises me that some people really believe those things too.My dad use to have the statement that trailer's were a poor mans mansion. That is what he called them and some of them are really nice. Some of them now days even look like houses in the inside. You can't tell the difference when you are in them. We never know what someone is like by what they look like that is for sure. This is one that I hear a lot too. If someone sees a lady with bruises on her they say poor woman that is awful that she is dealing with being abused by a man and if she has a man with her they think he is abusive. What if she was in a accident of some kind coincidentally. Somethings that seem like the situation is what we think might not be what we were thinking.

you have no idea how i've been judged and wrongly judged all too often. You learn not to care about these things because you know who you are. The people who really count...don't judge you by these things. I have a friend that is covered in tattoos and has hair down beyond his shoulders. He wears black overalls and drives a harley in the summer and a jeep in the winter. He is so wrongly judged..sweetest person you could meet. I have another great friend who is a multimillianaire and he has hair to his shoulders and dresses in jeans and t-shirts. He likes me and I have nothing so that alone says something about him. He is a hard hard worker...you'd never know his wealth to meet him. Don't judge by looks...you just don't know.

Sometimes..but not all the time. Just the "rock" look and the "emo" look. I just can't help it, if they dress that way then some people will really see them as the 'stereotypes'. I have nothing against them though,it's their style and I don't know them personally.

Yes, people always judge who we are by the way we present ourselves. The way we dress, we talk, hair style etc..all these stuff do somehow determine who we are. Though maybe sometimes we just do it for fun..hee. For me, just find our identity, and stick to it. What people will say, let it be.

Of course, i live in New York city and thus see a lot of different people and stereotype all the time, which isn't always a good thing, but oh well, usually I am right. I do like however when my stereotype is proven wrong and i meet really nice people i would never imagine getting along with. And I'm sure trailers are nice, I just would never personally would want to live in one, i enjoy the city life and everything that comes with it minus the rodents. Happy V day!

I've been judged like to be a bad a** when I was a teenager, dressing like a boy like a hip hop girl, but other girls would do the same later, but couldn't even dance. I don't judge by the looks. Athough I wouldn't be friends with a satanist, I think type doesn't mean anything. People are what they have inside.

Sure I've done it, and still doing it, a lot. I don't believe we can go through life without stereotyping every now and then - we don't have the time to get to know all the people that cross our path, but we still form an opinion on them, because... well, without opinions, we'd be plants, not people, right? For instance, I think the bank clerk who handled my request a couple of days ago rose well above the standard in her family, and may be the first generation moving from a village to a city. Just something about the way she dressed, her accent, a spelling mistake she made, which is very specific to an area here, the hairstyle - small details, but they all added up to my conclusion. And if I were wrong, so be it, no harm done, I didn't treat her differently because of what I thought, and she will never find out, for sure. It happened the other way around too, people judging me based on appearance. Usually what I get is "You're way smarter than you look". And I thought my post-punk look screamed genius

I don't like stereotyping. All birds can fly when it's not true. Penguins can not fly, as well as chickens.

Most of us probably have done this stereotyping thing. Sometimes it's a way of remember someone whose name we don't know. When we are stereotyping it means that we are associating that person to a particular group or type of person with commonalities/similarities. Like for example, most rockers have long hair so when we see a guy with long hair the first thing that comes to our mind is that he is a rocker and oftentimes it's true. But the sad thing is that it's not always true and get the wrong impression about that person. Sometimes it could bring damage to the identity or personality of that person.

We may not mean to but i think we all have our ways of stereotyping people. It is the way we choose to see people without understanding them first. We can often get a wrong first impression of people when we stereotye them. You can miss out on a great relationship because you drew the wrong conclusion about someone.