Stereotypes: Not Good

Stereotypes are very commonly tossed around in our American society. The average American can probably tell you one or two stereotypes "right of the bat", so to speak. And the question would be why? Why do most people have stereotypes laid upon them? The answer, simple. Ignorance. Ignorance may be to simple, but it is clear that if one is ignorant to anther human being due to their sex, race, religion etc, then he/she will be oblivious to who the other person is. For example, common stereotypes thrown around today, would be: black people are really athletic, Mexicans jumping the border, Germans being Nazis and a whole other load of stereotypes one can imagine. Stereotypes are basically public beliefs on certain groups of people or one particular person. Stereotypes are so widely known amongst us because of our lack of knowledge or the media portraying some stereotypical content. So in other words, use your head people!