World of Stereotypes Introduction to Logics April 15‚ 2013 In a World of Stereotypes What is a stereotype? Stereotypes are characteristics ascribed to groups of people involving gender‚ race‚ national origin and other factors. (Nadra Kareem Nittle. Para 1). Most of these characteristics are over exaggerated opinions of the groups. The next few paragraphs in this paper will identify three examples of a stereotype one may
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of some stereotypes related to our social identity but what we don’t know much about is stereotype threat. Stereotype threat has been shown to reduce the performance of successful people belonging to a certain negatively stereotyped group. Claude Steele‚ the author of Whistling Vivaldi‚ a social psychologist and Columbia University provost‚ writes about the work he and his colleagues have done on this phenomenon‚ the tendency to expect‚ perceive‚ and be influenced by negative stereotypes about one’s
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A stereotype is a generalised idea of a group. Every group of individuals is stereotyped. We all see that in terms of gender‚ skin colour‚ religion or country. We can all relate to that. If you think about it‚ there are many stereotyped groups but gender has been the main issue nowadays. The first example is the most common: women. The idea of females being weaker than men has been adapted many years ago. We can tell how women are stereotyped into being a housewife or a person whose aim is to satisfy
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Stereotypes are biased opinions‚ which one group of people has towards another. The primary problem with stereotypes‚ however‚ lies in the fact that they do not project themselves as opinions but‚ instead‚ are presented incontrovertible facts. Indeed‚ as Hinton (1993) maintains‚ “stereotyping can be seen as a more extreme form of typing where we see a whole group of people as homogeneous‚ with the same characteristics” (65). In general‚ stereotypes derive from behaviours‚ which may be observed in
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that I am not the same you’ll never change the way I love and you can fight for you’re dominion but I’m worth a million times the weight of a dogmatist’s opinion I know that all that you can see is a stereotype of me all that you thought I’d ever be a stereotype of me."(www#poetrysoup.com ) . A stereotype is " a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing ." Some people who are commonly stereotyped are ‚ Cheerleaders ‚ Police officers and women . All
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We all have an internal list of those we still don’t understand‚ let alone appreciate. We all have biases‚ even prejudices‚ toward specific groups. In our workshops we ask people to gather in pairs and think about their hopes and fears in relating to people of a group different from their own. Fears usually include being judged‚ miscommunication‚ and patronizing or hurting others unintentionally; hopes are usually the possibility of dialogue‚ learning something new‚ developing friendships‚ and understanding
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Chris Stroud Barbara Hampton‚ Professor Eng 1412-42 11-01-10 Stereotypes ‘Stereotypes Of Mechanics’ There are many different stereotypes when it comes to taking your vehicle to a mechanic‚ whether it is one in your town our out. The stereotypes of mechanics will always be there. There are a lot of things that people label mechanics unjustly for such as‚ they tend to believe that we as mechanics’ are all stupid and un-educated‚ that we all
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Exploring Stereotypes Stereotypes are just stereotypes‚ and all of them are not 100% true‚ smart person should understand‚ that they are based on something real. Being a smart person‚ in that case‚ means do not stereotype everybody under the same line‚ but be able to understand and distinguish what the nature and reasons of the stereotype are. Being a foreigner in USA‚ I have had to struggle against stereotyping because of my nationality. The same way in the Se Habla Espanol novel‚ Tanya Barrientos
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and physical health of those who are prejudiced. Being constantly surrounded by superficial thoughts can heavily influence one’s feelings of self-worth. This was seen in the activity we did in class where we listed different stereotypes of various ethnicities. One stereotype mentioned was that all Asians are good at math‚
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Irish Stereotypes The Irish people have been on the receiving end of many racial stereotypes. When they migrated to America because of lack of jobs‚ poor living conditions‚ and many other reasons they were treated as the lowest member of the social class. They were given jobs that were thought to be too unsafe for blacks to carry out because the loss of a slave was an out of pocket expense (Kinsella‚ 2002). But The Irish were not only discriminated against in America‚ but in their own country
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