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Stereotypes are Just Stereotypes Do you care about your culture? Is it a major part of your life? Culture is what makes up a person’s life. Most people base their opinions on stereotypes, but culture is way more. Culture is important because most people use stereotypes, judge based upon stereotypes, and don’t actually know about the other culture/race. Great amounts of people use stereotypes and take them seriously. Society does stick to stereotypes and use them, even if they are or aren’t true. People do consider this as offensive. Some people don’t have a strong sense of humor so they could take stereotypical comments personal. Others also consider it as being ignorant. This is because people really don’t have knowledge about that
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