Stereotypes In Our Society

Stereotype plays a major role in our society today because it’s being use every day by most individuals. People are being judged and misunderstood based upon what society thinks. The development of stereotypes has changed based on the change in society. Stereotype thoughts are usually harmful, based on how different groups of people see others on their beliefs, appearance and behaviors. I was stereotyped as a typical Asian during my life, which has affected me socially.
In my experience, when I first moved to a new elementary school called “Davidson Elementary” I was the only Asian-American in my class and people in class didn’t think I knew English. People wouldn’t bother to talk to me because people thought I didn’t know how to speak English and that I was born in a foreign country even though I was born in America. When I was a kid, I had trouble with speech because I rarely had any friends and I didn’t talk much so I would stutter a lot, but I clearly knew how to talk proper English even though some people would still think I’m slow. Also whenever I would try get
I wasn’t a big geek in my middle to high school years because I would often ask people to help me with my homework most of the time and would let them do the work for me. I also had bad grades in school because I wasn’t really good at studying and doing my tests because I would tend to overthink a lot. Some people would expect most Asians to have a good GPA, but I had an average GPA during high school. When I was a senior at high school people would ask me what colleges accepted me, and when I didn’t say any Ivy League schools, people would often get shocked because they think that Asians would go to those type of schools instead of a regular college. In addition, a stereotype that was made about Asians were that we are hard workers in