What is the difference in your mind, and in your common usage,

What is the difference in your mind, and in your common usage, between a perception, a generalization and a stereotype? Please give an example of each. Are each or all consistently unethical judgments or are they sometimes or always ethically justified in their use and implementation? Under what conditions?

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