An overgeneralization argument is when a judgment is made about an entire group of people based upon the behavior, usually undesirable, of a few in that group. This is also known more popularly as stereotyping. Stereotypes are overgeneralizations that can become assumptions and shared by many people and at times, an entire group. Some stereotypes are of things such as public education, modern music, the arts, churches, synagogues or mosques. Other examples of stereotypes include people such as politicians,
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