Stereotyping

National stereotyping is a problem. We place people in categories without knowing them. We take a group of people, and say that they are all the same. For example, we in Norway think that all the Swedish people are stupid, and we make up funny jokes about them. It’s easy for us to place people into categories, because we don’t have enough information about them, and that is probably the reason why we do it. When we place a person in to a stereotype, we give the person more information than we have the ability to access.