Daniel Bar-Tal

People are taught to stereotype other people. Stereotyping is a learned form of classifying and labeling others based on inaccurate information or assumption rather then on factual knowledge.It is not a new phenomenon. Individuals and societies,to assert their dominance over others, have been cruelly and crudely labeling others for thousands of years. It is a systematic imputation whereby the “self” or some particular group attests to it’s superiority over the “other. Stereotyping is a form of delegitimization, “beliefs that downgrade another group with extreme negative social catergories for the purpose of excluding it from human groups that are considered as acting within the limits of acceptable norms and/or values.”