Stereotypes and racism aren't the same thing. They were linked together by the ever growing, overly sensitive , whiny babies of the last generations. Stereotypes are things that stem from something that is seen as pretty accurate for most people of that stereotype, not all of course,but a large amount.(white people aren't as good at aports,black people having big lips,asians being good at math,Mexicans being landscapers) Racism is the idea that someone of a different race is less than you, beneath you and doesn't deserve rights equal to what you have based soely on the pigment of their skin. The entire idealism behind racism, in the ideas of the racist is to "cleanse or place" said other race. To have some sort elitism over them. Racism now is identified more by stereotypical comments or actual truths that people don't like hearing(omg he said it!) and less about one race being above another. TLDR Sensitive babies twisted the meaning of racism with stereotypical statements.