What are the weirdest most innacurate stereotypes?
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The one I run into most is that everyone that operates a nuclear reactor is like Homer J. Simpson, a moron, or like some kind of evil scientist. \n\nWhen I tell people I teach at a reactor site, they are amazed. "What do you teach?" They ask. When I tell them nuclear physics, radiation protection, radiation chemistry and techwriting, they scratch their heads in bewilderment. "Never thought there were classes out there."  \n\nFunny how folks really have no idea what the 1200 people working right nearby them do or are like. Of course  many could not get a job there: we do close background checks on employment and credit history, we test for illegal drug use, we do hire folks with special skills. Even so, the workers are just folks who wind up being scout leaders, church members, football coaches in their spare time. Good solid citizens.
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The people who don't think the way they do.
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Don't use the word weird, use unique. Everyone is unique in their own special way. :)
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Because they shun the unfamiliar and critiize anything that is abnormal.  It's not just the "unusual" but in the past it was race.  Unfortunately, the stigma never goes away.  There will always be cruelty to things that people believe are unfamiliar and abnormal.
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Stereotypes are always from the same root:  ignorance.  It is a way for people to explain something they do not understand; that is different from their way of doing things, or different from themselves.\n\nSome common stereotypes debunked:\n\nBlack people love eating fried chicken and watermelon.  Well, I'm white and love both.  I bet a lot of people on here are white and like them too!  \n\nLatinoes are lazy.  I believe that stereotype is a reaction to a sense that jobs are being stolen by this particular group of people.  If they were really so lazy, why would an employer hire them?  In my experience working with people of various races, Latinoes work just as well as anyone else.  It is a matter of individual merit.\n\nGerman women are excellent housekeepers.  Not if you look at my best friend's house!  hehehe\n\nStereotypes are foolish ideas, created by foolish people.\n\nSue
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These are stereotypes.  The saying asks us not to believe them.\n\nSeems simple enough to me!
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Stereotypes are considered to be a group concept, held by one social group about another. They are often used in a negative or prejudicial sense and are frequently used to justify certain discriminatory behaviours. More benignly, they may express sometimes-accurate folk wisdom about social reality.\n\nOften a stereotype is a negative caricature or inversion of some positive characteristic possessed by members of a group, exaggerated to the point where it becomes repulsive or ridiculous.\n\nStereotype production is based on:\n\nSimplification \nExaggeration or distortion \nGeneralization \nPresentation of cultural attributes as being 'natural'. \n\nStereotypes are seen by many as undesirable beliefs which can be changed through education and/or familiarization. However, stereotypes need not be confined to negative characterizations about individuals or groups, and can thus have positive characterizations.\n\nThere are also genuinely positive stereotypes about groups. Some groups have, as a deliberate political strategy, tried to evolve new genuine positive stereotypes for themselves.\n\nSome common stereotypes:\nThe miserly Jewish person\nThe effeminate homosexual\nThe hillbilly redneck
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Because they're weird.
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Because they are wierd.
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Some are not to realistic in my opinion.
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If it doesn't make sense, it's not true
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Insane Bonafied Imposter
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Things are generally stereotypes because they are very broad generalizations of a particular group.  \n\ne.g.  \n\nGirls are bad at math. \n\nWhite men can't jump. \n\nChildren who are homeschooled don't get a well-rounded education. \n\nAnd in my experience, the people of Mexican decent or who were born in Mexico who I have worked with tended to work as hard as my other employees and attended the same schools as everyone else.
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Complete and utter weirdo on all counts!
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haha!!!\n\n\ni have a friend with odd ones i'll tell her that!!!!
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Who says it's a misconception?
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no way he is so weird