Examples Of Stereotype: Global Tragedies Of Our Time

Stereotype: Global Tragedies of our Time. * “Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev indicted. Mr Tsarnaev, 19, faces 30 total charges in the 15 April blasts, which killed three and injured more than 260 others. The brothers are from a family of ethnic Chechen Muslims from Russia and had been living in the US for about a decade.” - All Muslims are terrorist. * “When poor children, Blacks or women are able to access careers or universities from which they have been historically excluded, they may not perform as well as members of the traditionally advantaged group”. – All black people lack intellectuality. * All Africans speak Pidgin English in popular fiction or talk in sentences like: “Me very afraid, bwana!” – All lower class people are uneducated. * “Asians have high IQs. They are smarter than most in Math and Science. These people are more likely to succeed in school “– All Asians are genius.
That niggah must belong to a gang, just look how he dresses and walks...” All Africans belong to a gang.
How often have we heard somebody mention these things, and, how often have we said something similar? I strongly perceive our society is established on the superficial, especially in the way in which we categorize people because of the actions of a small proportion. All of the above statements are prejudicial concepts mainly used to define members of a social or an ethnic group, and are called