Quotes About Stereotyping

once you become their Other, you're no longer a person. You're just an idea, an abstraction of everything that's wrong with their world. Give them the slightest excuse, and they will tear you down. And the easiest way for them to target you as this Other is to find something that's different about you. Color of your skin. The way you speak. The place you're from. Magic. It comes and goes in cycles, Kate. Each new generation picks their own Other.

Nobody will tell you that you're typecast until your films aren't working; if it's working, they'll call it your 'zone.'

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.

I think it's true that people seemed to have had a kind of tunnel vision in my regard, and that has been something that I've been having to fight against for a long time.

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to move story along or as a way to make things more entertaining.

You see these casting directors' lists of characters, and they're all boxed in. Twenties is the hot girlfriend, thirties you can still be hot but moving swiftly to hot mum. Forties, you're the legal person in a pantsuit. Then, once you reach your fifties, you're positively elderly.

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.

People want to say there isn't racial profiling at the airport, but let's be honest. If you first name is Mohammed, and your last name isn't Ali, leave a little extra time.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

People treat you differently when they think you are too young to know what you want.

It didn't occur to me that they would never take my gender and age seriously-- that as long as I was a young woman, they projected their sexual feelings on me, regardless of what I did.

I have an IQ that could gain me admission to the damn Mensa Society, but that's not what people see when they look at me. They can't see any of that. They can only see the color of my skin. They see a six-foot-five black man. They see someone they think might be armed and dangerous.

I think it's a shame that people are so quick to put you in a box; sometimes it's as if you do one thing, and that's all you're allowed to do.

If you do an item song, then you're categorized as an item girl; if you focus on acting, you're categorized as an actor.

We need to afford people from minority groups and marginalized communities the chance to inhabit spaces they're often held out of because of stereotyping.

Watch them describe you to somebody else and see how it long it takes for them to bring up your physical description that'll tell you all.

our representation of the standard criminal might be based on the properties of those less intelligent ones who were caught.

An observation that people who live permanently in an adoptive country tend to progressively generalize the bad and particularize the good, that is, attribute the bad traits in people they encounter to the national trait of the natives, and the good things to the individual. This holds equally well for French people living in the U.S. as it does for Americans living in France.

how we tend to generalize from what we see.

I recall how we were taught in school how far more civilized and wiser we were than those in the Balkan communities