Cultural homogeneity produces presumptions that ground stereotypes

Evidence

Cultural homogeneity emphatically encourages, if it doesn’t presuppose, denial of the multiple and diverse influences on cultural expression. Homogeneity presumes the conviction that everything of cultural significance and value is group determined, fashioned famously from within the confines of the group narrowly defined. It strongly suggests, if it doesn’t entail, a presumptive commonality to group members’ character, the basis after all of stereotypes. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1890

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how inside/outside categories get naturalized (cf. racialized ‘premodern’ coding from Ch. 1 of this book). — connects to: Nationality and ethnicity stereotypes combine to shape sexual harassment abroad — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1186; Stereotype content reflects shared cultural views rather than individual contact. — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 41; the MOC “The Wound of the Label: When Knowing Someone Becomes a Way of Erasing Them”
• DEFINE: Crystallizes what cultural homogeneity does — presupposing group-determined value — that grounds the stereotype machinery.