The tendency to attribute to an individual the characteristics you believe are typical of the group to which that individual belongs is known as .

The tendency to attribute to an individual the characteristics you believe are typical of the group to which that individual belongs is known as stereotyping.

Explanation:

The stereotype is defined as the general belief about a particular category of people based on their ethnicity and sexual orientation. In simple terms, it proposes the expectation that one person might have about another person of a particular group.

Stereotype may sometimes go wrong, as it is just guess of what the situation or a person is. The decision taken just by looking on the outside of the person may be untrue or partly true.

Social categorization, contrast effect and social identity theory are some of the factors contributing the stereotyping.

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.