Comments on: Jews Reinforcing Their Stereotypes

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:51:37 +0000

So Jews and wookies can’t jump,play basketball well and are cheap ????????????????

By: Jason Orkin

Jason Orkin — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:03:38 +0000

As a very secular Jew, I find myself tending away towards stereotypes. As such, I generally tip even when the service wasn’t worth tipping, and as I am usually calm and relaxed about money, if I am slighted or something is amiss, I usually don’t bring it up with the staff unless it is life or death,

In the case of the Goldstein’s, they do represent a population in the Jewish Community who make those of us who aren’t cheapskates lives a bit harder. It is a trend of certain people always getting what they want, and then wanting more. I for one am of the group that would have been thankful there wasn’t a fire, bitched about the incident with my family, and gone back to sleep.

By: chewie

chewie — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:58:03 +0000

Yep. They are deadly from downtown. But they won’t dare drive the lane and I’ve heard some commentators call them “ball hogs” because they won’t share the love and are too cheap to dish it off.

By: DBlock

DBlock — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:11:35 +0000

so the goldsteins shoot 3 pointers?

By: chewie

chewie — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:36:50 +0000

I suppose your complaint could have been about anybody intentionally perpetuating their stereotype. It happens all the time, like white people who don’t train very hard as a race to increase their vertical leap, or Wookies who don’t manage their anger.

On certain levels, stereotypes work and some people are perfectly OK with their stereotype. The Goldsteins might not mind being perceived as being cheap. I know many people like the Goldsteins who would take being labled “cheap” as a compliment.

If someone is happy with a stereotype, there is no incentive to work against it. Take for instance the example of white people and jumping again. Somewhere along the line, the stereotype became easier to accept and everybody just started hitting shots from the outside. Now, nobody works on their ups.

The stereotype is perpetuated because it becomes comfortable and then at some point people identify with the sterotype and become proud of it.

I’m almost certain that’s what you would have found from the Goldsteins.

By: archer

archer — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:49:16 +0000

it really doesn’t matter what the group identity is, if it’s based in factors simply incidental to birth, and not in beliefs arrived at through personal thought, exploration, intuition, insight, and etc, it will invariably alter one’s perceptions and thought processes negatively. it’s essentially trbalism.

By: archer

archer — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:39:28 +0000

this is one couple. they could have been the johnsons.

as far as having concern about reinforcing stereotypes, this can be very problematic and negative. take the case of the white liberal wracked with white guilt, who out of this kind of self centered concern, does harm through idiotic social policies to those whom he is obsessed with proving that he isn’t racist, or nativist, or sexist, and on and on.