原帖由 Austin 於 2009-1-12 03:36 發表 
example: There are 10 apples on my table, 9 in red, and 1 in green.
I would say "Almost all the apples on my table are in red".
Question: Am I stereotyping?
Answer: No, you are not stereotyping bec ...
Yes, both of us try to make solid and valid examples that are "countable".
However, how to describe some/many cases that are very general and popular in some/many people's mind? Such as, can people say "MOST mothers love their kids", "most dogs love to chew bones", "most cats love to eat fish",...etc, are these still stereotyping? Since people can't really count how many mothers, dogs and cats in the whole world, they can't give these kind of "opinion"? So people should answer "oh, I don't know if mothers would love their kids", "I'm not sure if dogs love to chew bones".... ? This is what I said you are making things more complicated and turning nothing to problems. Don't just object and argue because you just want to. |