Making Wrongful Generalizations

A situation in which i have experienced someone making wrongful generalizations about a characteristic of a population based on a sample from it, is when i was in high school i attended an all girls catholic school. Most people when told that this bit of information would automatically think that i was rich or gay. These people who were ready to make these assumptions were all based off of what they had seen on TV and other medias. Media plays a big role in  the illsuion of what Catholic all girl high schools are. People think there are promiscuous  teenage girls who wear short skirts and wear designer clothes, and drive BMWs and have "daddy" eating out of the palm of their hands, ready to  buy them anything they desire, and if that isnt the case then its the idea that you are gay if you willingly go to an all girls school. Neither which was the case for me, and pretty much everyone who attended my high school, but unfortunately that was the rep we were always given. Everywhere i went to introduce myself people would say "oh you must be rich" and when asked questions on what its like going to an all girls school the question "there must be a lot of lesbians at your school huh?" would always arise. These are all generalizations based on what people havae taken from their own experiences. Just because you might have known of a school with a lot of rich girls or lesbians, does not give someone the right to make a statement that generalizes the whole population.