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CMV: Stereotypes are often true and there’s no way we can get rid of them

Excuse my English. 

I understand that stereotypes leads to prejudice and discrimination, but stereotypes itself imo isn’t a bad thing or a good thing, it’s just.. statistics. 

 I’m kind of annoyed about how people are “woke” about stereotyping and stuff. Like for example showing a pic of a mechanic thingy and ask if women knows what it is. Then women started complaining about stereotyping and sexism and stuff, saying “NOT ALL GIRLS PLAY BARBIE DOLLS SOME ARE VERY HANDY IN FACT MY MOTHER BUILT ALL THE HOUSES IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND I OWN A CAR REPAIR SHOP”. Sure, there’s definitely gonna be tons of women who are handy and loves mechanical work. But they’re not the majority. Ask 100 women and how many actually know about these things? It’s just statistics, no one is discriminating here. Im a woman, so I’m not offended by this at all. And I can assure you that most of my female friends do not know mechanical stuff too. 

Stereotypes about races.. well idk about America but in my country I can say most of them are freaking true. Like saying Chinese have small slanted eyes well yeahhhhh most of us do have small slanted eyes so.. 

Another example would be terrorism. Just ask yourself truthfully, consider a dodgy looking mid eastern man vs a Chinese man carrying a backpack suddenly sitting next to you or your kids. Who would you be more suspicious towards? For those non-Muslims who say “not all Muslims are radical”, Be completely honest. I live in a Muslim country. I can tell u that a huge portion of the Muslims here are radical, not only about religion but also their privilege. 

Stereotypes are based on history and facts. It’s just showing the tendency of something. It’s like smoking is more likely to cause cancer. Why didn’t anybody freak out about this stereotype? There are tons of smokers who live long happy lives too. They should be outraged!!   

Anyway I know it’s hard but stereotypes can just be stereotypes as long as everyone keeps an open mind.
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Problems with stereotypes:

1. They can be based on small sample sizes

2. They don't help you deal with individuals within the stereotyped population

3. They don't have to be based in fact to spread

4. They get updated much slower than actual statistics

5. They don't help relations.

And this isn't a point, but a joke about how stereotypes can be faulty. 

The average person is a Chinese woman named Mohammed with 1.8 legs.