Does Stereotypes Hurt People

When it comes to “stereotype”, what comes to our mind? According to Chopra’s speech, there’s are a lot of examples, such as Italian builder, British backpacker, poor Africans, to name but a few, these are all showing that how do people label others with stereotypes. Does stereotype hurt people physically? Defiantly “NO”, words cannot hurt people physically, but words cut more than swords, it does hurt people mentally. For those stereotypes that are offensive, those are the swords, which are mean and hurt people with disrespectful. However, their tons of offensive stereotypes in nowadays society. The most affected and bring negative impact to our life is appearance and educational level. One of the most offensive stereotypes is judging people by their appearance. It is an undeniable fact that people will judge other by the appearance in the first impression, that's justifiable. However, if you judge people ability on his appearance, for instance, if you are a boss of a company, a girl come into your office to apply for a job and she isn’t growth with a smart face. Then the thought come to your mind as “This girl are not pretty, she looks stupid, she must be a dopey.” And you didn't accept her application without reading her resume. Undoubtedly
However, we cannot avoid all those offensive stereotypes in a short term, but we can try to turn people think about that whatever you stereotype others to put yourself in others shoes and feel what you would feel. Also, we can exceed it by education, change people’s thoughts by education. Although education is not an effective way to solve this problem, unless it would be a possible solution to change people mind in a long term, and it will have an obvious effect in the future. It is an open secret that nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it