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[–] Thisismyvoatusername 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I recognize it sounds tautological, but people use shortcuts to analyze the world around them. If you want to be treated less than ideally, wear a business suit to a rock concert, or ripped jeans to a job interview at a bank. It is entirely appropriate to conclude based on nothing other than clothing that someone is not likely to be a person one is interested in dealing with. Those snap judgments will not always be fair. However, most of the time they will be.

Further, they will always occur because that is how we process things and learn to understand the world around us from the earliest age. We experience things. We generalize to the world around us. Then we filter new experiences through the learned ones. It's how we learn to identify safe or dangerous situations. It's pretty much an instinctual way of learning and thinking.