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Stereotypes are not harmless, root them out

What will make you automatically prejudge someone you just know by name? You build perceptions about them that create shortcuts of wanting to know them better. Whatever little detail we get about them only seems to emphasise our predictions of their behaviour and attitude.

Haven’t we heard people say things like; tall men make excellent leaders? Or beautiful women aren’t always smart? We have dumb men and women! Do we even have to mention how millennials are presumed to be delusional and having a false sense of entitlement?

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