Why do you think stereotypes continue to exist?

Sterotypes were created to control a group and to enforce ideals and opinions onto others.

Stereotypes exist today because social standards keep people from breaking out of them and from thinking on their own. Because of the amount of pressure to be a certain way and because we continue to teach these stereotypes, it prevents the group from becoming something different. And it enforces the idea that your group can only be what people say you are.    

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