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I think any stereotyping is too much.

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.

I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype.

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.