How do parents affect childrens stereotypes?

I mentioned in my last blog that parents have an effect on their childrens' stereotyping. An example of this might be the parents saying to the children that anyone who drives a new or fancy car is rich. In this day of car loans, it should be obvious to anyone that a person doesn't have to be rich to have a new or fancy car. I read about a study done to see if and how children stereotyped people. The study was based on the person's appearance and the products they had with them. It showed children as young as five years old could stereotype. The older the children were, the more acurate their assumptions were that the stereotypes were true to their original impressions. There's no way children came up with those stereotypes on their own. Most of this comes from the parents. Even without thinking, parents stereotype a lot too. The children hear their parents opinions and learn to think the same thing. They agree with their parent's thinking without even having had a personal experience to form an opinion of their own. From then on, children's stereotypes keep growing.