hokjesdenken

Dutch

Etymology

From hokje (“label, social category”) +‎ -s- +‎ denken (“thinking”).

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Noun

hokjesdenken n (uncountable)

1. the tendency to think of people in term of rigid, reductionist labels and social categories and failing to do justice to individuals' individuality

Further reading

• hokjesdenken on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl