In what way are people all over the world similar?
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I note there were no responses at the time that I started writing this. this is just my opinion as a Layman surrounding what you have asked. I hope my thoughts offers something sufficiently stimulating in the absence of a more critical objective analysis or at least provides some rationale, even if it’s not from an expert.
Firstly, the premise of your question I feel is false. I don’t think people do think everyone is the same but that to me this seems obvious, babies don’t think strangers are their mothers or their fathers are their mothers or their siblings are their mothers for example, we learn people are different at a very early age. We have names which provide very distinct identities. We certainly don’t think people are the same so I’m unsure of what you mean by people thinking everyone is the same.
This does seem obvious to me and I assume obvious to you so you might be talking about stereotypes?
Again - just my thoughts as a layman.
Our experience and conditioning can cause us to form stereotypes about all sorts of things including other people which allows us to make general decisions about other people who we identify both consciously and subconsciously as having one set of traits and assume other invisible traits by association which fit the stereotype at least that’s how I understand a stereotype to be.
An example. I’m going to ironically use a stereotype formed from exposure to American fictional Film for my example of what I perceive might be a typical stereotypical attitude.
A passerby witnesses a group of people with African Ethnicity, In east LA playing basketball. Assumption - they are African Americans. They might form ideas about their social economic status, employment status or their , education, family, diet, attitude, hopes, dreams, experience with violence, even their sexuality.
The stereotype seems quite reasonable and the passerby doesn’t think anything of it necessarily, then one of them speaks with a totally unexpected cultured cambridge or oxford accent. That voice isn’t supposed to come out of a person in that situation. New information exposes the observer to a reality check of said stereotype. The present experience doesn’t match the stereotype and people are now classified very differently.
Why do people form Stereotypes which do not recognise individual traits? one might ask. In my opinion this “labelling or compartmentalising” is probably an efficient way of sorting information and making decisions about how much attention we should afford and how our behaviour might be altered in relation to the people we are assessing for our perceived advantage. The mind forms all sorts of associations, very quickly, it allows us to be decisive. It’s a way of our brains playing the odds without us thinking about it.
We can’t explore everything as intimately as we would like. It’s not just in relation to people but pretty much everything. We build neural associations and it’s all for efficient processing of information which relates to our ability to make sense of our subjective reality.
Again, just my opinion and I’m no expert.
You asking the question and me sharing my opinion is further evidence that neither one of us thinks we are the same. So I hope we agree that the logic of the question is false. This can be considered fact I suppose. You and I recognise we are not the same person.
I consider myself reasonably rational and aware in relation to stereotyping and bias but I’m no where near immune nor do I not stereotype.
I assume things about you for example. I am unsure of the reason why I do but it probably comes down to efficiency.
I assume you are an able bodied person like myself and you’re wearing clothes like myself without any evidence in relation to you as an individual or any statistical evidence of Quora’s user base cloth wearing tendencies or traits pertaining to having all ones faculties but the stereotype of cloth wearing able bodied person probably comes from a belief that most people are able bodied and cloth wearing(again with no empirical statistical analysis to back it up), hence my assumption that you probably are. I wonder if I knew otherwise, would I treat you differently? I’d like to think no but in reality I think I might be inclined to label you differently and treat you differently in certain contexts.
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hope this will help you
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we all have same structures like brain , nerves , heart , etc. we all were born and we all will die. we all eliminate waste from our body , drink water and eat food.