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Originally posted by Kevin Andrew Murphy:
So guilt is foreign to the Jewish experience? And Jews themselves do not make jokes about it? Excuse me, I need to clean my ears, I must have been listening to some other reality.
Caricatures/stereotypes are blanket exaggerations formed around some kernel of truth, usually cultural, which may not and likely will not be uniformly true for all members of a given group, but serve as shorthand so you don't assume that absolutely everyone loves porkchops or knows how to play chess.
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Despite your impassioned defense of your practice of stereotyping, I still believe it to be somewhat less valuable than thorough analysis.
By the way, I do not think that African Americans are socioeconomically disadvantaged (as a group) in the U.S., because all they think of is sex and watermelon. Again, to take your argument seriously, we differ.
Dan