The Practice Of Stereotypes By Annie Jerry Paul
Stereotypes can negatively affect people's lives, but few people really know why they stereotype others who are unfamiliar to them. Some believe the practice of stereotype is learned in the home and from images in the media. Others say that placing labels on people is natural.
A psychologist once believed that only bigoted people used stereotypes.
“Now the study of unconscious bias is revealing the unsettling truth, and we all have met the equality and the enemy is us” written by Annie Murphy Paul. Stereotyping is unfair and misleading. People base more on assumption than facts; An individual can in their minds create a picture of an individual and place that individual in a stereotypical group. It is not just characteristic that set an individual apart that creates a stereotype, but also the character that causes us to place an individual as a member of a group; it’s true that placing labels on people is natural when it comes to the brain, but what is not natural is the action we take against stereotyping. The world today has become quite a diverse place, but the media hasn’t been up to speed with …show more content…
the rest of the world. The media often inadequately represents minorities in television shows, news, movies and documentary, for example; When the media talks about Africa or shows parts of Africa they often talks about poverty, and showed the ghettos parts of Africa, so for this reason, a lot of people who haven’t been to Africa thinks that Africa is just a big jungle with wild animals roaming around. Pure media stereotyping. To overcome the habit of stereotyping we first need to identify the stereotype that has marred our judgement, such as “all athletes are poor students”.
Secondly, challenge stereotype people express about others. Challenge categories people assign you to automatically; suggest politely, you’re mistaken in your opinion about me, let me tell you why, with tact and good will, everybody can resist accepting the labels they don’t fit. We’ll win respect and pave the way for unblemished communication. Thirdly, seek out more contact from stigmatized groups -meet and get to know people before judging, eliminate harmful words from our phrases and words such as, every, all etc. study also shows that power can eliminate negative stereotype especially amongst women, feeling powerful might protect an individual from the harmful effects of the negative
stereotype. Finally, the habit of stereotyping can be overcome by identifying the stereotype that has marred our judgement, Challenge stereotype people express about others also Challenge categories people assign to you automatically and Eliminate harmful words and phrases such as every, all etc. lastly gain power to eliminate the negative stereotype.
A psychologist once believed that only bigoted people used stereotypes.
“Now the study of unconscious bias is revealing the unsettling truth, and we all have met the equality and the enemy is us” written by Annie Murphy Paul. Stereotyping is unfair and misleading. People base more on assumption than facts; An individual can in their minds create a picture of an individual and place that individual in a stereotypical group. It is not just characteristic that set an individual apart that creates a stereotype, but also the character that causes us to place an individual as a member of a group; it’s true that placing labels on people is natural when it comes to the brain, but what is not natural is the action we take against stereotyping. The world today has become quite a diverse place, but the media hasn’t been up to speed with …show more content…
the rest of the world. The media often inadequately represents minorities in television shows, news, movies and documentary, for example; When the media talks about Africa or shows parts of Africa they often talks about poverty, and showed the ghettos parts of Africa, so for this reason, a lot of people who haven’t been to Africa thinks that Africa is just a big jungle with wild animals roaming around. Pure media stereotyping. To overcome the habit of stereotyping we first need to identify the stereotype that has marred our judgement, such as “all athletes are poor students”.
Secondly, challenge stereotype people express about others. Challenge categories people assign you to automatically; suggest politely, you’re mistaken in your opinion about me, let me tell you why, with tact and good will, everybody can resist accepting the labels they don’t fit. We’ll win respect and pave the way for unblemished communication. Thirdly, seek out more contact from stigmatized groups -meet and get to know people before judging, eliminate harmful words from our phrases and words such as, every, all etc. study also shows that power can eliminate negative stereotype especially amongst women, feeling powerful might protect an individual from the harmful effects of the negative
stereotype. Finally, the habit of stereotyping can be overcome by identifying the stereotype that has marred our judgement, Challenge stereotype people express about others also Challenge categories people assign to you automatically and Eliminate harmful words and phrases such as every, all etc. lastly gain power to eliminate the negative stereotype.