Diversity : Building Relationships Across Cultures

Stereotypes are a form of prejudice everyone will once experience in their lifetime. Stereotypes are centered around an individual's race, gender, social class, religion, and age. They have been known to be elements people use to make judgments and subjectify people to one key feature. As Gordon Allport states, “ To state the matter technically, a noun abstracts from a concrete reality some one features and assembles different concrete realities only with respect to this one feature”(364). Mr.Allport’s words can be summed up to say stereotypes have been used as key fundamentals to associate one feature or aspect of a person with a group that represents it, typically in an unfavorable way.

There are many different stereotypes in the world today. They can be used for different categories like age, gender and race. Stereotypes are formed by the media, passed down from many generations and also just the populations need to understand the social world around us. Racial stereotypes make up large portion of stereotypes in today's society. Racial stereotypes can be used for comedic effect and our found to be funny by a majority of people, but they can also be depicted as hate to an ethnic group if it goes too far. One example of a race effected by stereotypes are Asian people. They have many stereotypes that have developed over the years. An example of a stereotype Asian people experience is that they cannot drive very well. Some

Stereotypes are generalizations about a group of people whereby we attribute a defined set of characteristics to this group. These classifications can be positive or negative, such as when various nationalities are stereotyped as friendly or unfriendly.

“A stereotype is a rigid, oversimplified, often exaggerated belief that is applied both to an entire social category of people and to each individual within it. Stereotypes form the basis for prejudice, which in turn is used to justify discrimination and attitudes. They can be positive as well as negative.” Stereotypes exist within any social group, and social group or cliques which are groups of people who share similar characteristics and interests such as the ones priorly said.

A "stereotype" is a social perception of an individual in terms of group membership or physical attributes. Stereotypes are generalizations made about a group and then attributed to all members of that group.

In our lives there are many different cognitive biases that can interfere with our ability to solve problems and/or make rational decisions. One that I think is especially problematic, and has been for quite some time, is representativeness heuristic. This is defined as the tendency to make judgments about a group membership based on physical appearances or the match between a person and one’s stereotype of a group rather than on base rate information. And essentially, a stereotype is the use of concepts to make generalizations about a group of people. (pgs. 252-253) Stereotyping in this country is, and always has been, a huge problem.

People are natural evaluators of everything they come across, and they attempt to acquire insights as they evaluate other people. Stereotypes are the beliefs that people hold concerning other human groups after gaining insights about them. Racial stereotypes have been common among African Americans and the whites. In the 20th century, African Americans were stereotyped as contaminated and dirty by the whites; maybe because of the insufficient income they are said to earn. The whites also associate African Americans with substance use.

Stereotypes are widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular person or thing. Racial stereotypes are when you mentally exaggerate a racial group that we hold automatically, not as an individual. We develop stereotypes through our cognitive scheme, which we know for categorization, to make the world more predictable. Just like the worldly opposites, there are negative and positive stereotypes for African Americans. Some negative stereotypes are that black people are criminals or affiliated with drugs. And some positive stereotypes are black people are good singers or really great athletes. The victim(s) of the stereotype takes the steps to counter the bias opinion about themselves. In the series of questions asked, the determination of whether one's bias opinion is true and the group own up to that stereotype to make it true. Or one actually creating the stereotype for their group which is pointed out by another group. These questions were asked towards white and black members of Argo Community High School. White Response (WR) and Black Response (BR) is how the determination will be evaluated, to infer a theory as an general answer.

People are natural evaluators of everything they come across, and they attempt to acquire insights as they evaluate other people. Stereotypes are the beliefs that people hold concerning other human groups after gaining insights about them. Racial stereotypes have been common among African Americans and the whites. In the 20th century, African Americans were stereotyped as contaminated and dirty by the whites; maybe because of the insufficient income they are said to earn. The whites also associate African Americans with substance use.

The dictionary defines stereotypes as “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.” Our world today is run by an infinite amount of stereotypes. They affect every aspect of people's’ lives. Members of society let others’ opinions affect their own, and people who go against stereotypes are frowned upon. Some stereotypes include those surrounding African Americans, people of Asian descent, and transgendered people. Most people look at an African American male and either get scared of him, assume he raps, our plays sports. However not every single black male in the world partakes in those activities. Some people look at Asians and assume they are all smart, and good at every subject in school, but that

What Are Stereotypes Have you ever judged anybody without getting to knowing them. According to google dictionary A stereotype is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. We treat people the way we do because of stereotypes. In the article Holocaust and Human Behavior it talks about why we use stereotypes.

All most everyone in there lifetime has stereotyped others are have been a victim of stereotypes. A stereotype is the belief about another culture, race or a person that has no logic or evidence to support there negative thoughts. Many people believe that when a person stereotypes another it is the lack of information or ignorance

Stereotypes make us simplify our social world so it’s it becomes easier to recognize some situations. They make us understand basic groups of people to some extent of truth. “The most famous study of racial stereotyping was published by Katz and Braly in 1933, 100 university students were asked to indicate the traits most characteristic of ten different social groups. Students displayed a high level of agreement about the traits of certain racial and ethnic groups, such as Negroes (described as superstitious by 84% of the students, and as lazy by 75%), and Jews (described as shrewd by 79%).” All kinds of people of stereotypes about others.

Stereotypes or as some people call them generalizations are assumptions people often make about the characteristics of members apart of a certain group or race. Though there is no exact period to determine when stereotypes were developed, through commonsense, the answer to these questions is captured in the social learning theory which specifies that learning is a cognitive process that takes place in a social context and can occur purely through observation or direct instruction. In agreement with an article in Psychology Today, the brain uses stereotypes to create shortcuts for itself to explain why things may be a certain way, and many people don’t realize that their brains are making these presumptions subconsciously. Growing up in the

A stereotype is a fine example of a judgement error (Bethel University, 2013). So often, people will make a quick judgement about someone else strictly based off of appearance or nationality. For instance, in school, new students may see the different groups of students joined together and assume that the “jocks” of the school are big and strong, but not very smart. Meanwhile, people may also assume that the “nerds” of the school are