You often hear it said metal heads love Stephen King novels, Neckbeard = Brony, teenage white girls are tumblr's only audience, white girls love Starbucks. Do you think these group characteristics are inherently part of the group? Are people that fall into little subculture groups attracted to them by their personality, or do you believe it to be the culture/subculture that causes people to adopt these things?
People love to generalize. It is easy to because with a fair amount of groups you find very like minded individuals with similar traits. Take note, I am not saying everyone in WoW is liberal, or the ever common "everyone on these boards are European." So in short, is it a person's personality that drives them towards a group, or the culture that surrounds them. I will elaborate further if I have to as I am having difficulty myself explaining my question, lol.
Also, none of the generalizations I pointed out are my view, just statements I see quite often.
Edit: Forgot to add. Or do you think there is any truth to these statements/observations? Or just people trying to group others up.