Question

reflect on a time you were wrongly perceived because someone associated you with a certain class or group of people

Answer 1

Stereotypes and cognitive biases are often used as frameworks to classify sundry people in the basis of one overt characteristics.

I, too, have been associated with a certain group despite not having any association with that given group. Due to my penchant for indo western wear, I have been mistook for a Hipster, a group of passionate people, that I do not associate with, but due to my given attire that has been stereotyped and type casted by sundry movies and television shows, there was a direct correlation made with me and that particular group.

Although, this perception was based on my physical characteristics as opposed to covert internal factors, which did not associate with the aforementioned group.