I would just like to point out to the world that, what with all the talk of institutional bias and systemic discrimination and all that jazz, stereotypes are fragile things. Not everybody “learns” the same ones. Example- when I was littler, I used to think all black people were rich (gah ok the phrase “all black people” sort of hurts my ears to say online but whatever), because in my almost all-white area, any black people I saw in real life were usually from out of state and up north, and therefore ✨rich✨ in my mind. Not to mention the ridiculous amount of the Cosby Show I watched. It was a major shock when I got older and more tuned in to pop culture, because the behaviours so often pinned as “black” (in a pejorative kinda racist sense) were to me, very very white. Another example was when I found out that Jewish people (or, in redditbro-ese, tHe JeWs) were considered white. I did not beleive that Jerry Seinfeld was Jewish. At all. Just wait until I learned that there were people who actually were racist against Jewish people. I seriously thought that was something society left behind at the Babylonian Captivity. 6-year old me would have killed to be Jewish, because they were the Chosen People, therefore cool and special, therefore I wanted to be cool and special. Anyway, not trying to get the internet to kill me, and you can argue that my assumptions were racist anyway (for the record no, I do not still think that all black people are rich or all Jewish people are extra cool, obv), but I’m trying to show that stereotypes are not nearly as core or irremovable from culture as it seems sometimes.
