What Are The Stereotypes Of Slum Dwellers

A. Self- fulfilling stereotype- preconceived ideas of what someone is like that led to the persons behaving in ways that match the stereotype.
“Slum dogs” or slum dwellers never wanted to end up the way they did. Immediately after someone is born racism starts to be taught. Almost always if someone is put down they start to believe themselves that they are not good enough and inferior to someone else. Most of the slum dwellers in this documentary don’t have a stable family to rely on, or people with enough confidence to tell their family and children they can be better than this. If the stereotype for these people were that they may be born into the slums but they’re all driven and smart and make it out of there to become stable. The stereotype
Why do privileged people get to decide who to throw in the slums and looked at as a burden to society when were all human beings. I really do have a problem with this definition. Who’s to say that these people don’t belong. Why should these kids in the slums be considered an outgroup and a disgrace straight when they are born, all because of a title that was placed on their parents? We have a tendency to label people based on what they look like or where they come from, but not based in the actual substance of the person. In the documentary, one the children states that he would like to grow up and become a doctor someday. The chances of that happening are slim to none, no matter how hard he works. Why? Because immediately after he was born he was placed into an out group and labeled as not as capable as someone in an in group or as someone’s whose family has money, and that is completely not fair at all. To be seen as a member of an outgroup is demotivating and dehumanizing. To be told you do not belong somewhere successful because you have been born in the slums is completely vile. How do we expect them to make it out of the slums and create a better life for themselves when we are staying they don’t belong anywhere else? It is very difficult for me to grasp the fact that we are mad at the slums for taking over space and just being “a waste of space” when we truly give them no other option. For the people in the slums, they are always stuck in bad, degrading