Stereotypes.

Stereotypes have originated, because society feels the need to categorize everyone into perfect sects. The citizens of the United States of America have freedom of speech, the right to voice their opinions. Therefore, these miniscule truths have become exaggerations, and people have decided to view different groups of people in certain ways, and the word spreads rapidly throughout society.  So, does this mean, that all Asians are "smart," all Hispanics are "illegal immigrants," or all African Americans are "ghetto." NO. These are the assumptions that society have made, that everyone knows, based off a small amount of people that actually do fit into these categorizations. The issue is though, people hear these assumptions about their specific race, and actually start acting the way that they have been stereotyped. Society is oblivious to the fact that most of these stereotypes are ridiculous, and have been tainted by these categorizations. Stereotypes are widely known throughout society today, because it is an excuse to categorize people into neat categories and not have any consequences of being "racist" for doing so, and have spread like wildfire. Now the question is... Do you believe them ?