So, what do you think the worst stereotype is? Why?

Personally, I think it's that "All Muslims are terrorists"
People believe that because of 9-11
Just because a couple people were able to contort a few phrases from the Qu'ran doesn't make all Muslims bad
This stereotype is really believed in my school because the only Islamic kid has an anger problem. The ones who believe this stereotype are all idiots. Mostly it's Roman-Catholic extremists that believe this though.

Also, I think that "All black people are criminals" is really unfair
I don't see where this came from.

So what are your opinions?

The verses from the Qura are taken out of context from the Quran.

Agree completely Fang, those two happen to be the worst stereotypes ...

I agree, Fang...I think that stereotypes are a product of ignorance and stupidity. Once you start to educate people, stereotypes will gradually decrease.

i don't like the all Americans are racist idiots one that i have seen before, after a few choice words back to the person who insulted me the first time he started crying... he was 5

preid1220 wrote:i don't like the all Americans are racist idiots one that i have seen before, after a few choice words back to the person who insulted me the first time he started crying... he was 5

you made a five year old cry!!!!

also, I don't like that people think that all Finns and Irish people are drunks

I'm 1/2 Finnish and 1/4 Irish so those insult me

@Ahmed: I did say contorted didn't I?

I hate "Do you live in a pyramid/ride a camel in Egypt?" Sterotypes...fools...

Ahmed IV wrote:I hate "Do you live in a pyramid/ride a camel in Egypt?" Sterotypes...fools...

I know ... how can anyone doubt that you guys don't

Sayfullah wrote:

Ahmed IV wrote:I hate "Do you live in a pyramid/ride a camel in Egypt?" Sterotypes...fools...

I know ... how can anyone doubt that you guys don't

Dont get me started

They didn't even live in pyramids...

Fang wrote:They didn't even live in pyramids...

Exactly. Ignorance is NOT a bliss.

Fang wrote:They didn't even live in pyramids...

naw man, they thought that the dead bodies were livin n stuff ... y do u think mummies are alive n stuff in monster movies?

Fang wrote:So, what do you think the worst stereotype is? Why?

I think stereotypes all follow the same model, so one is same as another, in form, just the particulars are different. What is alarming maybe is, does all thought in fact follow this model? Rational thought, abstaction in general, is stereotype.

[quote="Vanya"]

Fang wrote: Rational thought, abstaction in general, is stereotype.

So radical thought is the type of thought that isn't sterotypish?

[quote="Ahmed IV"]

Vanya wrote:

Fang wrote: Rational thought, abstaction in general, is stereotype.

So radical thought is the type of thought that isn't sterotypish?

That's a good question. This is why ideology like 'permanent revolution' exist, or why in Carmen we hear "every great passion wills it's own end." Why Buddha seems to advise suicide. Reason is a box, a chopper, the lordship and bondage even seems to be the base of language: subject, verb, object. Sadism and masochism is the psycho-sexual expression of stereotype, this master-slave dialectic is the OS of the mind. But we can be hopeful, a language without adjectives? These are some of my thoughts on the matter, Which came first, the noun or the verb?

[quote="Vanya"]

Ahmed IV wrote:

Vanya wrote:

Fang wrote: Rational thought, abstaction in general, is stereotype.

So radical thought is the type of thought that isn't sterotypish?

That's a good question. This is why ideology like 'permanent revolution' exist, or why in Carmen we hear "every great passion wills it's own end." Why Buddha seems to advise suicide. Reason is a box, a chopper, the lordship and bondage even seems to be the base of language: subject, verb, object. Sadism and masochism is the psycho-sexual expression of stereotype, this master-slave dialectic is the OS of the mind. But we can be hopeful, a language without adjectives? These are some of my thoughts on the matter, Which came first, the noun or the verb?

I got lost once you started the second sentence :huh:

why do you call reason a box, with limits?