Of types and Stereotypes ...

We all grow up and build these frameworks in our mind in which we fit in people and their actions... this framework is the key to our stereotypes... We quickly bracket people and further fit all our thoughts into that framework... Stereotyping is an evolutionary success, it indeed helps at many levels ! Imagine, if our ancestors did not generalize at some point that eating foul smelling food could be fatal... no one would have survived the bouts of food poisoning that usually follows... !! So, yes, stereotyping helps, its saves time and effort... But, now when we extrapolate the same mechanism to our everyday social existence, it does take a toll... "Women are like... , men are like... , Girls from Delhi are like..., Rich kids are like..., single kids are like, younger siblings are like... beautiful girls are... Smart girls are... " It is an endless list... As we grow, we build a framework that we acquire based on our social structure, the surroundings we are in and the people who form a part of early life... This framework becomes a part of our cognitive structure as we evaluate every event in our life in this light... And since it is a major extrapolation, it does have major drawbacks.... how i wish, I could control that impression at first sight and learn to judge every event at its merit... !! Our stereotypes, blind us to a large extent... as we end up fitting in every person and every event in our life, in that narrow skeleton we build in our growing years. We fit in pieces of the same dimensions into the jigsaw puzzle we have without a care as to if it were at the right place... Our mind has the ability to fill in the gaps and interpret things accordingly... and here we stand, in a world where misunderstandings are rampant, a prejudiced opinion is the norm and randomness drives our existence... Wish things were different...