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Not sure who needs this reminder, but…

Stereotyping (and its specialized variants such as nationalism, sexism, racism, etc) is a powerful human instinct, which happens to have been correct just often enough to be passed down through evolution.

Do NOT mistake it for logic.

• “I observe a member of group X to have Y trait or behavior”
• “It seems like a lot of members of group X have Y trait”
• “We can prove that a majority of group X members have Y trait”

These statements have varying levels of confidence which may allow you to make a stastitical inference about an arbitrary member of group X, but NONE of them is sufficient to prove the commonly assumed syllogism:

• α is a member of group X, therefore α has trait Y

This simple fallacious formulation is very often used as the basis for “othering” huge populations of individuals, and, I believe, is the source of most of the injustice in the modern world.