External Stereotypes

Regarding your understanding of the IAT: What does the IAT measure and how is it different from explicit tests of prejudice? (This will be lengthy and there is punishment for plagiarism)

African–Americans are 63% of people that make up prisons for drug charges. Constant bigotry is the pattern and animosity that is inside our minds and are working outside of our conscious knowing. There is a common stereotype that associates minorities, mostly African-American people, with crime. 72% of people follow this stereotype, but it’s common in our life so we are attentive of it. “Our unconsciousness Is not good at distinguishing between associations that we approve of and those we don’t, so merely having the two concepts (Black and crime) associated in our memories causes one to be automatically activated in our thoughts when the other is presented.” (Harris)

- The emaciated child and his community were starving and, since no one was willing to help he had a jaundiced view against outsiders.

What if I were to tell you that you that for the rest of your life, you would be unfairly judged, and possibly even discriminated against, based on false perceptions and ideas gathered from influences that only resemble you in the vaguest of ways, most likely being, skin color? And what if no matter how an individual person chooses to carry oneself, they will still commonly be regarded as a member of said misconceptions? Enter, stereotype: “A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.”(1)

MISCONCEPTION IS BORN OUT OF MISCOMMUNICATION. WHEN STUDENTS GRADUATE THINKING THAT TOMATOES ARE VEGETABLES AND BEING UNSURE ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “DESSERT” AND “DESERT”, YOU’D COME TO BELIEVE THAT THEY HAVE HAD AN UNSUCCESSFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCE. IN SOME WAY, I’D DESCRIBE MY UNSUCCESSFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCE AT SCHOOL AS SUCCESSFUL.

To a young me, the world was black-and-white. The virtuous will remain good while the immoral will stay wicked, no shade of grey existing. The notion that humans can change their nature was ludicrous. Living in a society where sorting human beings into stereotypes is the norm only served to reinforce that idea. One day, though, the action someone who should stand for justice forced my eyes opened.

The baby blue ribbon draped around my horse’s neck tells the crowd that I am the tenth best junior dressage rider in the country. Don’t confuse this with some fantasy, I did not reign supreme nor top the field of competitors I faced during the weekend in Chicago, Illinois at the Festival of Champions horse show. However, I stood proud with my lowly score of 63.7 percent. Seven percent off the winner, which as far as my sport goes equates to the difference between an A and a C on a math test.

Several types of attitudes, norms and beliefs that may increase the likelihood of stigmatizing/discriminatory behaviors among the public are covered in reviews by Schomerus, Lucht, et al. (2011), Kulesza et al (2013), Lloyd et al (2013), and Room (2005). Below we focus our review on those influences on stigma that may be modifiable (i.e., can be targeted most directly at the level of the public or policy). These aspects include (1) blame, (2) the extent to which substance dependence is viewed as a mental illness, (3) moral versus biological views of addiction, (4) stereotypes of unpredictability and dangerousness, (5) labeling, (6) lack of education/training among healthcare professionals, (7) lack of contact with individuals with SUDS, (8) the media, and (9) structural stigma. Other, likely non-modifiable correlates of public stigma (e.g., demographic factors, substance of choice, method of

I disagree Fletcher, the world is made up of many different ethnicities and their values and customs play a role in how they perceive and treat others. For instance, I have known several people from Spain who consider themselves at the top of the Hispanic culture and would not associate with people from Puerto Rico as they would consider them beneath them. Most of Europe has that view on Americans as well. The culture of the south has an emphasis placed on being overly nice and polite to others, whether they mean it or not. As a New Yorker I have heard that we are considered rude by many southerners. I find this opinion to be based off of a misconception. Our values are different and that leads us to handle others through our own eyes. For

“Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears.” - Laird Hamilton. Psychologically the mind is a person's worst enemy and I manage to witness that, but I also want to study it and use it to help people. Struggling with depression was one of the worst and best things I have encountered, it has built me to the person that I am, someone who’s willing to work for the better without giving up.

The various sources of media have the very important task of communicating information from one source to another without losing the element of truth and accuracy. Recently, The media in the form of newspapers and internet articles look at many issues from only one perspective in order to avoid confusion. While simplicity is often preferred and enjoyed by the audience, it has negative effects that can impact the understanding of a topic. When the media talks about occurring events in South America or the Middle East, sources use easy to understand, eye catching titles to grab people's attention. This method can keep things simple but can also make the topic contain a bias towards a specific opinion that eventually leads to the creation of stereotypes

For Germans, "Gemuetlichkeit"- a nice and comfortable home is highly valued and cleanliness and tidiness are valued. Many Germans consider that a person should remove their shoes before entering a home.

Being stereotypes can cause us to do many things it can also influence us in many ways. Most of the time in my opinion we are all stereotyped because of our race, gender, religion or even ethnicity. I feel stereotyping can influence us in a bad way and can cause us to do something that can harm someone. We’ve all been stereotyped at least once and I’m pretty sure they do not like the feeling of it. For example millennials were always treated better they were taught as kids that they were great and smart. Then when they grew up and got a job they were taught reality. Millennials were born into an era where technology was developed and as years went by we were born and we were already introduced and keeps progressing but the bad thing is we are

In todays world everyone has their own stereotypes, whether they are positive stereotypes of negative stereotypes. They can also be true or false in a sense of being rational and just being ignorant. Stereotypes are used today to give groups an image of what most people claim for that group to be like. Normally when someone is referring to or using the word stereotype they are referring to a collective, professors are smart, firemen are fearless, etc. Humans are around unfamiliar areas or groups they are uncertain about; they tend to use the little knowledge that exists to themselves to reduce uncertainty about the situation. To a lesser degree one knows about the situation the more stereotypical thoughts are made and used. Simple-auto stereotype is the term referred to when referring to members of a nationality. Thoughts on this is idea is that everyone will have their own thoughts and ideas with other groups. Knowing less about different nationalities is the reason for stereotype thoughts towards them. I am from a small town called Perry, Georgia and here numerous amount of Indians own gas stations throughout town. The. Stereotype the community created for the Indian gas station is that they are cheap. The Indian gas stations have all the cheap snacks, drinks, they even sell a cheap generic brand of ibuprofen. The fact we as a community do not know much about their race and that they have cheaper prices for snacks and drinks we use stereotype to help with the uncertainty in the situation. The Five Factor Model (FFM) was started because trait approaches had become exceedingly important in understanding the relationship between culture and personality. This is why the Five Factor Model is the dominant view in society today. These five dimensions are conscientiousness, neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience and agreeableness. Many premature studies have provided support for the cross-cultural validity of the Five Factor Model. Allik and McCrae (2004) made it be visible that the personality traits were not related to a geographic location, but, geographically recognized historically close cultures had more similar personality profiles. In the end the results to date provide strong

Stereotyping someone without knowing someone can bring unwanted conflicts and wrong impressions. The other college students talked about me, as they tended to, not knowing that I could hear what they were saying. “Look at her, she looks mean and rude.” The look on my face must be ugly, I suppose.