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According to OS X's dashboard dictionary widget (Oxford American?) Stereotype: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of
by kranner 16y ago
According to OS X's dashboard dictionary widget (Oxford American?)
Stereotype: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
That "oversimplified" is what makes it an unreasonable assumption.
- roel_v 16y agoOk, if you take that definition then yes, I agree that stereotypes are morally negative. I'd still say that the bad part is more in the 'fixed' than in the 'oversimplified' but that's just minor quibbling which doesn't take away from your point. My point was coming from a slightly different notion of 'stereotype' where it's more similar to 'preconceived notion'. Maybe it's just a language thing.
- billswift 16y agoDictionary definitions are oversimplified meanings of real world word usage. People, almost all people, use words in slightly to significantly different meanings from dictionary usage. Also, objecting to someones use of a word based on minor differences with the dictionary definition is a version of argument from authority.
- kranner 16y agoroel_v and I seem to have settled that the individual meanings of 'stereotyping' are not the issue here. What I'm objecting to is what I have explained I mean by the word in the context of the original assertion by elbenshira, viz. that regard for punctuality is predominantly an American/Western trait. And if you don't mind, this is all I have to say about it.