Originally Posted by XoX
Let me give an example...When I meet someone I easily think of them as "ok he/she is a man/woman, young/old, poor/rich, non-educated/educated, not_too_smart/smart, not_too_attractive/attractive, leftist/rightist, atheist/religious and of type XXXx" then stereotype/classify and label the person in my mind and interact with that label not with the person. Only after some interaction I start to interact with the actual person who sometimes can be very different from the label I initially gave him/her.