Truth is I’m used to this — to people having some kind of what we are, of thinking that somehow there is something general to be said about us, which of course there isn’t. We’re as bad or as good as anybody else. It’s the experience of being on the receiving end of pre-judgment — of broad assumptions — that has made me unable to form broad assumptions about anybody else. I feel lucky in that. It isn’t even true that we’re smarter than anybody else. There’s cultural value given to education in some sectors of our population, and not in others — for instance, everybody in my family went to college, and in my wife’s family, until my wife, almost nobody. Just how it s.
You don’t accept that stereotypes are based at least somewhat on reality? Please.