Being Stereotype: Just Because I Am Hispanic

Being Stereotype: Just because I’m Hispanic

Stereotypes are generalizations or assumptions that people make about the characteristics of all members of a group, based on an image (often wrong) about what people in that group are like. What people think of others just because they look a certain way. There are stereotypes many kinds, about gender, age, and especially of races. A race stereotype of Americans is that they are generally considered to be friendly, generous, and tolerant, but also arrogant, impatient, racist and domineering. Asians, on the other hand, were expected to be and alert, intelligent, reserve and unsociable. Hispanics are consider to be from large families, dirty, not born in the US, unable to speak English, uneducated, eat too much beans and tacos, good dancers, and that they are gangsters who like to get tattoos and ride on low riders. Blacks are consider to be loud, argumentative,
They might want to question you more, look at you less, and expect you don’t speak English and probably don’t understand them. I know this is always going to be happening. I can’t make others to change. At first, this use to hurt me a lot. I felt rejected from society and thought I couldn’t make better. Their words and what other people thought of me did affect me. But I started realizing all people are not the same. I have to love myself the way I am, before others could love me as I am. I also comprehend that I can’t make others to think the way I do. We all have to accept society the way it is, and make the first step if we want society to change and be better humans. First of all, we have to change the way we think of others. Don’t judge them as a group. We have all different hearths. We should all love our race! We could find good and bad parts of