Consider the little white girl who, upon seeing a Latina baby at the mall, blurted out “Look, Mom, a baby maid!” (True event.) It’s not that she’s a natural-born bigot. Rather, she overgeneralized from the few Latina maids she has seen in her short life. The world is full of Latinas with other occupations, but she hasn’t met them yet. Our beliefs are based on our experience, which gives us a very incomplete picture of the world, and it’s easy to jump to false conclusions.
