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Post by arwen on Dec 23, 2006 19:15:36 GMT -5
I'm with you there, Arwen. (Especially on the 'tsk tsk' part ..)  I find those words say so much, with so few syllables...  |
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Post by mauvais on Dec 23, 2006 19:16:34 GMT -5
;D
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Post by Sgtpepper on Dec 23, 2006 19:46:43 GMT -5
I got nothing against anyone who shops at a certain store. Zumiez just smells and plays weird music. Too skater/punk for me.  |
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Post by arwen on Dec 23, 2006 23:39:35 GMT -5
Too skater/punk for me. Sterotypes. |
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Post by spagbol on Dec 23, 2006 23:42:00 GMT -5
Too skater/punk for me. Sterotypes. Stereotypes are a real time-saver. Do I want to take the time to get to know everyone? No. So I just use a stereotype, and it's LIKE knowing them. It's like Tivo. Everything to save you time and work. |
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Post by arwen on Dec 24, 2006 0:10:27 GMT -5
Stereotypes are a real time-saver. Do I want to take the time to get to know everyone? No. So I just use a stereotype, and it's LIKE knowing them. It's like Tivo. Everything to save you time and work. I bet YOU have a lot of friends with that attitude. |
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Post by Sgtpepper on Dec 24, 2006 0:56:04 GMT -5
Wow. Nicely put Spagbol.
Prior info. and stereo-types help you screen out a TON of people that you probably shouldn't get involved with.
If you see some guy handing out little baggies discreetly on the street, you think "drug dealer", not "Oh, that guy is just trying to struggle his way through life, I'll go get to know him!"
Stereo-types help.
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Post by arwen on Dec 24, 2006 1:02:37 GMT -5
Poor people are perfectly nice! Just because they have grown up in unfortunate cirumstances gives you no reason to discredit their personalities. In fact, they are often NICER than rich bigots like sgtpepper and spagbol, as they know what it is like to be without all their nice video games and HDTVs. They aren't as arrogant. Of course, I'm not saying ALL of them are nice, but not all of them are bad either.
It is wrong to have any stereotypes. Every minority includes good and bad. Some poor people are nice, some aren't. Some rich people are nice, some aren't. *cough, sgtpepper, cough spagbol*
There is no accurate way to group people based on anything. Human beings never fail to surprise.
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Post by Sgtpepper on Dec 24, 2006 1:24:21 GMT -5
I wasn't targeting poor people. I was making the point that you AUTOMATICALLY stereo-type. You just ASSUMED that Spagbol and myself are "rich bigots with HDTV and video games".
If you saw a drug dealer with a gun, you wouldn't go up and talk to them, even if he was actually some undercover FBI guy with a wife and a loving family, he would be treated as the decay of western society because you stereo-typed him. However, 999 times out of 1000 that person will be a dangerous drug dealer that might has shot you if you said hello.
I'm not saying stereo-types are wonderful and perfect, I'm saying that it protects you from people you'll get in arguments or fights with *coughcougharwencoughcough*.
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Post by mauvais on Dec 24, 2006 14:41:20 GMT -5
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Post by chinchillathekilla on Dec 24, 2006 15:32:32 GMT -5
I'm with you there, Arwen. (Especially on the 'tsk tsk' part ..) it bugs me when people say that  |
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Post by Sgtpepper on Dec 24, 2006 20:24:13 GMT -5
I'm with you there all the way!
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Post by spagbol on Dec 25, 2006 16:54:54 GMT -5
Poor people are perfectly nice! But they have no MONEY, so whats the point of knowing them? |
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Post by arwen on Dec 25, 2006 22:33:11 GMT -5
I wasn't targeting poor people. I was making the point that you AUTOMATICALLY stereo-type. You just ASSUMED that Spagbol and myself are "rich bigots with HDTV and video games". If you saw a drug dealer with a gun, you wouldn't go up and talk to them, even if he was actually some undercover FBI guy with a wife and a loving family, he would be treated as the decay of western society because you stereo-typed him. However, 999 times out of 1000 that person will be a dangerous drug dealer that might has shot you if you said hello. I'm not saying stereo-types are wonderful and perfect, I'm saying that it protects you from people you'll get in arguments or fights with *coughcougharwencoughcough*. Of course we make stereotypes. It is impossible to avoid, that is how human beings think. The minute we meet someone we are judging them. But it is an impulse to be fought, not glorified! Our initial assumptions are almost infallibly wrong! We need to keep our minds blank as we meet people, not stereotype them because they shop in Zumiez! Try to get to know people instead of judging them. You don't want me to think of you as a rich bigot, well that is what you are acting like. Grow up a little and my opinion could change. I am keeping an open mind about you, and if you can surprise me, so can that man on the street corner surprise you. |
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Post by spagbol on Dec 26, 2006 15:29:56 GMT -5
Of course we make stereotypes. It is impossible to avoid, that is how human beings think. The minute we meet someone we are judging them. But it is an impulse to be fought, not glorified! Our initial assumptions are almost infallibly wrong! We need to keep our minds blank as we meet people, not stereotype them because they shop in Zumiez! Try to get to know people instead of judging them. You don't want me to think of you as a rich bigot, well that is what you are acting like. Grow up a little and my opinion could change. I am keeping an open mind about you, and if you can surprise me, so can that man on the street corner surprise you. I can surprise you. Watch this. BOO! Hur hur hur. |
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Post by mauvais on Dec 26, 2006 16:13:26 GMT -5
 You are a weird child.
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Post by chinchillathekilla on Dec 26, 2006 18:55:46 GMT -5
Aren't we all?
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Post by mauvais on Dec 26, 2006 20:35:59 GMT -5
No.
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Post by chinchillathekilla on Dec 26, 2006 21:10:19 GMT -5
FINE then.
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