Quotes About Stereotyping

That's why they're placed in UFO magazines—because by and large the very act of buying such a magazine so categorizes the reader.

On handing the book back to my friend, the woman inquired Is he gay? No, said my friend. The woman pondered for a moment. Is he English? she asked.

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk.

Another characteristic of conflicts such as these," he said, gesturing toward the board, "is the propensity to demonize others. One way we do this is by lumping others into lifeless categories—bigoted whites, for example, lazy blacks, crass Americans, arrogant Europeans, violent Arabs, manipulative Jews, and so on. When we do this, we make masses of unknown people into objects and many of them into our enemies.

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff.

I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.

I judge by appearances. People tell me I shouldn't.

I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was such little to go on out there.

I think I've always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly.

For me, when I was growing up I was told the police weren't on our side. From being stereotyped because we drive nice cars to being judged for the clothing we wear, I was told I would never be given the benefit of the doubt.

I think people make a lot of judgments about me based on what I wear and all the things that I do.

'American Idol' gives people really wonderful opportunities, and they shouldn't take flak for what people do with that opportunity after they leave the show. A lot of casting rooms I was in, that was the only thing on my resume, and people would just be like, 'Oh, here's Katie Stevens. Another 'American Idol' girl who thinks she could be an actor.'

With the Kick It Out campaign, I was interested in asking: 'Why is antisemitism a lesser racism than other racisms?' I genuinely believe that to be the case - that negative stuff said against Jews isn't considered that important.

People don't really assume that I'm Filipino. Of course, they're gonna think, 'Oh, are you some sort of Hispanic?' and you say, 'No, I'm actually not.' I get Korean or Chinese a lot.

In general, we are lazy as consumers and just want to label people as good guy, bad guy.

Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.

People label you the way they know you best.

I think growing up, people want to put you in a box and label you quite often, just because it's kind of easier, I guess.

I think people like to label everything. I just think it's comfortable.

With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for Asian-Americans only.

I want to avoid being labeled a sexy starlet, even at the cost of not working.

It doesn't bother me when I'm labeled, but it's so... limiting. It's so boxy.

I got labeled as the guy who didn't coach and sat around and talked. I know what I do, so I don't worry about it.

Labels are actually not to make us understand things better: they are actually to ostracise and discriminate that what does not belong to the majority.