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Eddie, a Mexican, is a college student at Oklahoma City. He is good in studies and finishes all his college assignments on time. His White American classmates are amused at his sincerity. They think that Eddie is an exception to all Mexicans as he is not lazy like other Mexicans. The assumption of Eddie's classmates about Mexicans represents ________.

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Answer: stereotyping

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Stereotyping occurs when the collective characteristics that's associated with a particular group is used in judging a person such that the individual characteristics is discounted.

Stereotype simply means a generalized belief about a certain category of people. Since Eddie's classmates believes that an average Mexican is lazy, this refers to stereotyping.

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