How Stereotypes Affect Teens

Stereotypes have great impacts on people all over the world. One of the reasons why people believe stereotypes blindly is that they know less about the objects. In order to decline the uncertainty of this new object, people choose to believe the stereotypes to feel safer. For the purpose of understanding the world more objectively, we ought to treat stereotypes critically and at least not be convinced of stereotypes blindly anymore.

John Marsden, the author of Tomorrow, When the War Began once said about teenagers: “I believe passionately in their strength, intelligence and abilities and I think we often underestimate their capabilities.” The way society and the media negatively perceive young teenagers does not necessarily represent reality. Through Marsden’s popular text, different characters demonstrate several aspects of courage and leadership. As one of the protagonists, Ellie Linton discovers that there is a new potential truth for Australia. The author raises three key concepts about teenage stereotypes by Ellie’s survival during the invasion of a foreign force. John Marsden suggests that she experiences a rapid transformation from a ‘tomboy’ to a hero and is placed in dangerous situations where the consequences are everlasting. Through Ellie’s actions, behaviours and reactions, he also informs the reader about her alters in reality when she learns about the qualities she thought she never had.

Author Shankar Vedantam in his science article “How a Self-Fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance” implies that if a person is subjected to stereotypes it can affect your performance. The author develops this idea by first introducing his theme with a question, then he tells of experiments others have made to support this idea, and finally he wraps it up by telling us that companies and schools are victim to stereotypes and needs to stop. The author’s purpose is to explain to us how stereotypes can affect our lives in order to call out to people so we can lower the rates of stereotyping. The author establishes a educated tone for people who are interested in research and global

Our class was inspired by Shankar Vedantam’s piece to conduct research on stereotypes at Point Loma High School. We were provided questions by Ms. Roberts and asked one person in class and another outside of class. The ages of those interviewed ranged from freshmen to seniors in highschool. Later, we input our data in a Google form and later converted it into a summary data chart and spreadsheet. The results were sorted by ethnicity and gender. Using our results we were able to find trends/similarities of the impact/aftermath and responses of those who were interviewed

In life, there is a common ground on which most every person can relate. At one time or another, we have all been promoters of or victims of the unremitting nature of stereotypes. According to the Webster’s dictionary, a stereotype is defined as “a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group.” Most stereotypes take on a negative form and are based on characteristics such as age, gender, race, status, and personal beliefs. Generally speaking, the greatest problem that arises with stereotypes is that they judge group of people by the characteristics and actions of their ancestors, rather than on an individual basis. More often than not, these assumptions will

The youth of the black community are perceived as violent because of the brutal past the previous generations had to go through. “I think the African American community… [understood that] … somebody like Trayvon Martin was statistically more likely to be shot by a peer than he was by somebody else. So folks understand the challenges that exist for African American boys … they get frustrated, I think, if they feel that there’s no context for it and that context is being denied.” If a white teen was put into the same situation, the results would have been distinct from the outcomes of a black male teen.

Teen Spirit isn't just another movie about popularity and societal norms that we have in America. There is never a black and white moment in this fantastic movie. With so many deep subliminal meanings, you have to rewatch to truly understand. Throughout the story, the characters change dramatically, and we see different sides of everbodies personality.

In this world there are many things people are guilty of, one of those guilt’s is stereotyping others , even if it wasn’t meant in a harmful are negative way we all have been a victim or the aggressor . This paper will discuses what stereotypes are, how they affect people and how stereotypes can affect society. However, the common factor in either situation is that no good comes from stereotyping others.

Newspaper journalist shankar vedantam, in his article, “How a Self-Fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance,” argues that stereotypes can affect how people perform on tests. He supports his claim by first explaining that when administered a vocab test black people would do worse than whites when administered a test from a white person and blacks would do just as good when given the test from a black person . He then explains that stereotypes affect peoples performances because they psychologically incap them. Vedantam’s purpose is to inform about how the stereotypes affect people and persuades you to put a stop to it. He adopts a serious and urgent tone

In the article “How a Self-Fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance” it stated that “reminding African Americans and Latinos about their race before administering academic tests, or telling them that the tests are measures of innate intelligence, can hurt their performance compared with minorities who were not reminded about race and not told that the results reflect inherent ability.” This was said by a sociologist who has done dozens of experiments which shows that when we remember the stereotypes society has for us, we don’t do as good on certain things such as academics. Besides the fact that we don’t do good we also don’t feel good. In addition, in the survey results everyone for the most part mentioned that when they get stereotyped they feel bad about themselves and don’t feel as motivated to do things. People’s self esteem drops and it affects the way they see each other as part of this society in a negative way. This is something that everyone acknowledges but doesn’t do anything about it so it keeps making people feel bad. It makes all of us feel bad in some way and it affects the way we do in activities when we are reminded of these

This concern can have ironic effects on performance and behavior that inadvertently increase an individual’s likelihood of confirming the stereotype. In their seminal research on this phenomenon, demonstrated that when the stereotype that Blacks are low in intelligence is salient, Black students underperform relative to White students on standardized tests.” (Najdowski 564) Therefore if Najdowski were to discuss this research question, she would elaborate on the fact that really the stress that the victim and the person who stereotypes is great, as due to stereotype threat, the victim would subconsciously act in such a way that conforms with the claims of the stereotype, while those who do stereotype will see the pattern, which will in turn make it even the more difficult for them to control this forced habit.

Some of these adolescents are not responsible and it's the sad truth their are many people that I know that forget where their backpack is in the morning and lose their shoes imagine what don't they forget .Also some students in our Government class don't pay attention how are they suppose vote wisely aren't paying attention .Social media changes the way we think and changes a lot of things like voting for example if see famous celebrities putting their opinion on our former president or current president we want to be just like them and we start to think like them before we formed our own opinion . Also the students won't have accessed to vote because when most elections are taking place the students are at work and even if they happen

Most people find stereotypes to be obnoxious, especially when they have to do with sensitive subjects like gender or race. “Stereotyping is a generalization about a group or category of people that can have a powerful influence on how we perceive others and their communication behaviors” (Floyd, 61). Because they underestimate the differences among individuals in a group, stereotyping can lead to inaccurate and offensive perceptions of other people. Although stereotypes are prevalent in almost every society, becoming aware of our perceptions of others, as well as differentiating between both positive and negative stereotypes can help us overcome those stereotypes.

The presences of stereotypes are overwhelming and are developed by both the environment a subject is raised in and their family. Stereotypes, which are pervasive throughout different societies, become intertwined in the collective values of the society as justification for all forms of social, economic, and political inequality among groups (Devine and Elliot 2000;Kaplan 2004; Operario and Fiske 2004). As people become more exposed to stereotypes they start to become a permanent part of a person’s life, they begin to stereotype themselves almost always involuntarily.

The first effect of stereotyping is a phenomenon known as “stereotype threat” that occurs in a situation where a person is in fear of unintentionally confirming a negative stereotype. Several studies have been conducted to discover the effects of stereotype threats. For example, I discovered that Toni Schmader, an assistant professor of the UA psychology department, and Michael Johns, a UA graduate (ethos), conducted studies that showed, “college women score lower on tests of mathematical ability, and Hispanic students might score lower on tests of intelligence, not because they have less ability, but because reminders of negative stereotypes temporarily decrease their ‘working memory capacity’ (UA News Services, “Exploring the Negative Consequences of Stereotyping”, UANews.Arizona.edu).” This demonstrates that the students did not do worse on the test due to their lack of skills, but rather due to negative stereotypes. In a similar study by professors Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson, African American and White college students took the same intelligence test under two conditions. In the stereotype threat condition the students were told the test would evaluate their intelligence, and in the