text: You can have fun playing with them, so long as everybody knows you are playing.\n\nSome have roots in fact. For example, haggling is popular in some cultures. Non-hagglers tend to say the people in those cultures are cheap. The label is probably because the hagglers pay less money and non-hagglers are just jealous.\n\nIt can be handy to know the stereotypes and their roots (the stereotype alone is often worse than useless). Also, people are individuals - that makes stereotypes generalizations which may be interesting, but not may not be helpful (and even cause you trouble) in one-on-one interactions.