Stereotypes In Whistling Vivaldi By Claude M Steele

Stereotypes are used and seen every day in life by people. The reasons for why people use stereotypes is an endless list. The book Whistling Vivaldi by Claude M. Steele talks about how identity threat affects different type of people through experiments. Some experiments Steele talked about in his book was “Brown eyes, Blue Eyes” and an intelligent test done by Jean Claude and Theresa Claire. Throughout the book most of the experiments show how identity threat affects people negatively through making them more aware how they are viewed by others around them. In chapter two of Whistling Vivaldi the book talks about an experiment done by Jane Elliot. One day she asked the class what something was they couldn’t control the class