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Originally Posted by Phillies8008
People are weird and have an innate need to categorize and compartmentalize everything. Thus it's easier to say that Italians are loud, Jews are cheap, Mexicans are lazy, etc. than to acknowledge the nuance that while some people in those groups might exhibit those characteristics, it's not all people. Or even most or many. The truth, of course, is that people are more-or-less the same regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, etc. While there may be certain mores that are prevalent in different cultures, at the end of the day we're all pretty much motivated and subject to the same base human emotions and tendencies. Stereotypes are just a lazy way of ignoring all that nuance and are fed by confirmation bias – when someone meets a loud Italian, regardless of how many not-so-loud Italians they've met, it just reinforces the stereotype. It's human nature, always has been, and probably won't ever change. This stuff just gets injected into the zeitgeist and is hard to ever get back out.
But yeah, for every Subaru with a kayak on top of it there's a dozen without one, for every inexpensive Japanese car with a huge wing on it there's a dozen without one, etc. But for whatever reason we tend to notice the ones that reinforce our preconceived notions. Not to mention how popular culture reinforces them as well. Like I said, people are weird.
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Like, BMW drivers don't use their blinkers?
