Google Suggest Reveals The Internet's Offensive Religious Stereotypes [View all]

Yasmine Hafiz

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Some questions are better left unasked.

A look at the Google Autocomplete suggestions for different religious groups shows that people frequently turn to the search engine to ask the questions they may not want to say out loud. The suggestions generated by frequent searches reveal some of our darkest collective stereotypes and generalizations about people of other faiths, some of which are bizarrely specific.

A recent Pew survey examined how the American public feels about various religious groups, with Jews rated the most warmly and Muslims the most coldly. However, the autocomplete suggestions go beyond indicating mere warmth or coldness, instead uncovering some of the most frequently-typed questions about people of different faiths.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/22/google-suggest-religion_n_5609410.html?utm_hp_ref=religion