Stereotype Threat Essay

Experiencing Identity Contingencies and Stereotype Threat Since the first days of humanity there always have been differences among human beings. In addition, humans differ in so many ways, depending the region of the planet they come from and their background. All these differences lead to what is known as identity contingencies and stereotype thread. Moreover, Claude M. Steele in his essay “An introduction: At the Root of Identity, from Whistling Vivaldi and the Other Clues to How Stereotype Affects Us” writes about how we see identity contingencies and stereotype thread present in our society and how it is affecting each of us. As a result, I have suffered myself from these problems since my early days of life. Therefore, I totally
In addition, my appetite was not so good because I had a hard time eating meats and vegetables, I only liked to eat little portions of rice and beans. I also remember that the baseball couch of the school was recruiting students for the school’s baseball team and baseball has been always my passion. When my class mates noticed that I was trying to get into the school’s baseball team they started saying that I was too weak for that sport and that I was not even going to be able to hold the baseball bat. For a 5 years old boy it sounded like a death sentence because according to my classmates I was not born to play baseball, having this a profound impact in my performance when I took to test in order to make the school’s baseball team. In addition, what happened to me has a relation with Steele’s essay when he mentioned: “white students who were told the golf task measured natural athletic ability golfed a lot worse than white students who were told nothing about the task” (543). However, the same kid that was told that he could not even hold the baseball bat years later was able to be part of the national