Offtopic ontopic: Cultural stereotypes

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When you are living within another culture, it is easy to become a victim of stereotypes. People will generally hold beliefs of other groups of people that are always untrue and in most cases they will start judging you for your racial marks.

As foreigners, we need to understand that making stereotypes is not a natural phenomenon in human beings. Instead, stereotypes are reinforced through dominant groups in society, in order to favour racial groups over others.

However, people that make these judgements need to understand that there is no scientific evidence that any race is superior to another. After all, every culture has criminals and geniuses. Also, they need to understand that the idea that any race is pure does not exist.

Compared to years ago humanity has made some progress accepting multiple cultures in one society; nonetheless, we need to do more as individuals: leave aside the differences, stop basing our perspective of others on racial profiles and start viewing those around us based on their personal qualities and achievements.

Sounds simple? Sadly, turns out that it isn't.