n our society. Stereotyping has become something that we have found to be a vital part of our communication due to our need for information in the smallest possible amount of time. It is much easier for an individual to create a stereotype for another individual than it is to actually learn what they are like. You could spend one second looking at any individual walking down the road and create a stereotype on who they are, and what they are about. It takes real time and patience to actually look at an individual, talk to them, learn who they really are, and discover what they are really about. Patience is not a crucial part of judging others in our society mostly due to the popular usage of stereotypes. Also, because of our fast paced lives we have become immune to using patience to learn about the characteristics of others.Stereotyping cannot only cause less of a need to get to know others, but can also become rather dangerous. Sometimes individuals pass stereotypes on certain people or groups that initiate anger and hate due to the origin of the stereotype. For example, the Ku Klux Klan is an organization that has been around for decades. This particular organization had a developed stereotype against black Americans that resulted in the death of hundreds of African Americans beginning in the early 1800s. Though the Ku Klux Klan has died down to an extent in the past decade, other organizations and similar hate groups have developed over the years. These groups have created stereotypes concerning particular groups of people, be it African Americans, Italians, Irish people, or even women with blond hair. No matter who the individual is, as long as they belong to a particular stereotypical group, they are looked down upon. Do these individuals belonging to such hate groups really even know the particular people they are stereotyping? Most likely the the members do not know those they are hating any more than the person being...
