10 post about how we illogically think about different groups of people, with a concrete example about how you have illogically thought about different groups of people.

Many times we tend to think illogically about an entire group of people. Usually this train of thought comes from either ignorance or fear of the unknown. This also tends to happen when people see one person act a certain way and then genralize that because THIS person do something then ALL people like him/her must act like that. I know that I have been guilty of generalizing before because of fear of the unknown. When my band first started playing at local shows we had never really seen what these shows were like. I remember when we first pulled up to this venue called The Pit, we saw a lot of people with tattoos and piercings all over and it was a little intimidating. Usually I would associate people with a lot of tattoos to people like gang memebrs or anyone who commits violent crimes. What I learned though was that you can't generalize people just based on how they look. As I found out throughout the night, most of these people were all really nice and cool. A lot of them were just like me and here for the same reason, because they really liked music. It's not fair to anyone to judge them by how they look because it doesn't mean anything about who they may be underneath.