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Don't pigeonhole me.
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What's the difference between pigeonhole and stereotype?
This high-level question came up in one of our live group classes.
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So OK, what was the vocab question that came up in your class Aubrey, that's one of the students asked what's the difference between pigeonholed and stereotyped?
We were talking about pigeonholed in the class and they had already heard stereotyped.
They knew it seemed sort of similar.
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Okay, so pigeonhole and stereotype.
I understand how these could be easily confused because they're both...
They're both verbs.
They're both ways we unfairly judge someone else, right?
That's like just in our general umbrella.
They're both unfair judgments.
But how are they different?
Yeah.
So pigeonhole, first of all, is on more of an individual basis.
An individual person can be pigeonholed based on their skill or their tastes or their the way they dress anything
You can sort of decide that one thing about a person determines other things about them.
You can decide.
And, you know, your style might be quite eclectic, so you don't want to be pigeonholed.
Yeah, yeah.
So I'll use myself as an example here.
You can't see it now in the video.
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So you can't see it, but I well, you can see my hands.
I am a person who loves tattoos.
I always have.
This is just like a central core characteristic of my being.
I just love them.
So I have a lot.
And so people might see this very upfront characteristic about me and they might pigeonhole me, as let's see, how do you judge people with tattoos?
Maybe they pigeonhole me as like she's hardcore.
She's really hardcore.
Yeah.
Just like cool and tough.
And you never cry.
There's no way you cry if you have that many tattoos.
Oh my God, I'm so glad you said that.
That's so perfect because I cry a lot.
Not only do I have lots of tattoos, you guys, I am not like super hardcore tough.
I am very sensitive as well.
And you can't just say a person is all one thing, right?
That's the lesson here to not pigeonhole people um, but also professionally right, if you are um a, let's say you're a like an it professional, you're a coder, okay.
So people might pigeonhole you as just being good at that.
But what if you also have a great aesthetic style?
You're also good at design, at a holistic approach to presenting a program, not just the individual code.
So you don't want to be pigeonholed as a coder because you are more than that.
You can't do more than that.
So i think those are two great examples of pigeonhole.
Now, stereotype stereotype is larger, right?
Exactly right.
This is more about a group.
So we often will stereotype an entire group of people, whether that's everyone from a country or maybe a nationality or a race.
And if you're stereotyping, you are taking the actions or some kind of trait about one person and assuming it applies to the entire group.
So again right a negative generalization, something that is unfair to everyone of that group, whatever it is political party religion, it can be anything.
Gender, race.
Right, exactly.
It's bigger.
Like you said, it's a bigger group of people.
Yeah.
So we have general judgments and opinions about rich people, poor people, white people, not white people women, men.
You guys have like we all.
We all do this.
Everybody does this.
So you're taking your opinions about this group and looking at one person of this group and saying you must be like this because you are a blank.
You are a woman.
So you must be good at cooking.
I don't know.
Sometimes you feel like your stereotyping is sort of justified, because if you have met several people maybe for you know, then you're like oh, this is no, you have not met every person of any group, so it's always an unfair stereotype.
Even if you feel like you maybe are correct no, it's still not, still not right, So not right.
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