Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
Hmm now let me add a dimension. I recently spent longer than I had wanted in hospital. My "favourite" nurse in terms of empathy, competence and being all round nice was Moslem. So applying rA logic should I love or hate her?

It's not about generic stereotyping. There are good and bad in every aspect of life. Take a view of the individual, not a wide group as they will never always be the same as all others. It's lazy, presumptive and simply wrong to tar everyone with the same brush
Thanks for sticking your head above the parapet and giving an actual answer, but I disagree, we all resort to stereotyping, and we do it all the time. The three lads over there shuffling round in black hooded tops, the chap who just asked you for directions in a gentle feminine tone, the owner of the Audi heading your way who should give way. As I say, ‘we’ do it all the time, ‘we’ might well be mostly right or mostly wrong according to the depth of our prejudice or paranoia. But we all do it. Laziness maybe, risk mitigation also maybe