If you see something you have never seen, you have no stereotype/pattern associated with it, negative or positive. You have lot of stereotypes for people you ar

If you see something you have never seen, you have no stereotype/pattern associated with it, negative or positive. You have lot of stereotypes for people you are aware of. And those are based on attributes that are differentiable. If race is an attribute that is indifferentiable then you never learn to utilize that trait in your mental framework of how the world works. I don't think stereotyping is illogical, I just don't think it's a positive approach.