Stereotypes are negatively thought of which is just unjust.
Stereotypes have a broader meaning than what commonly we accede to.
Let me reiterate it's meaning: stereotype roughly means that some
features supposedly true of central examples of the class, apply to all
its members. Stereotypes have been a victim of very haughty political
and social debates and discussions. But we must give it credit for what
an indispensable tool it is, we use on daily basis. World would
have been a lot difficult had we not relied, and that too heavily, on
the stereotype for our processing of most of the data that our senses
bombard us with. Had stereotyping been absent, we would have been
analyzing every situation in our working memory (time complexity of
higher order) rather than just having pointers (time complexity of zero
order). Pointers are formed by brain over time (experience). Hence we
should use stereotype but at the same time we should be aware that we
are using one, for then we would know the limitations of our processing
and strength of conclusions that we draw.
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