Racial Stereotypes

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

Although Racial Stereotype is something we experience daily, people should not be quick to judge or make conclusions based solely on skin color. Not every stereotype is true. Staples introduces himself by using the words “first Victim” by doing so he sets a picture in the mind of the reader that when he came up behind the lady on the street, something was going to do happen to her. He is faced with different stereotypes that he experiences daily from different races. Throughout the essay Staples makes the argument that racial stereotype is wrong .Staples explains his thesis through narratives of incidents in his life. He gives details of numerous accounts of people mistaking him for a thief or mugger.

Media has become the key source of entertainment in United States especially on the sector of movie production. Most United States movies have some type of involvement with racial stereotype on specific ethnic groups. United States movies usually portray the negative side of African-Americans in all their movies. This is a huge problem to the society of United States especially black Americans. The presentation of the negative side of African-Americans in the media effects how they perceive themselves in the society and it also changes how other races perceive themselves. Many people may ignore the issue but it is menace because it is more related with racism. Many Americans and other races have lost hope in Americans because of the picture that is created in their minds by the media. Media argue that racial stereotype has no effect and it is one way of boosting movie and other entertainment industries. However, racial stereotype on blacks in United States is of no good at all. Racial stereotype in the media can be discouraged by the government of United States by instituting a law that would prohibit the production of movies and other entertainment materials that portrays the negative side of a specific ethnic group.

Black people have experienced psychological, as well as physical trauma that White people have not experienced. The experiences or trauma that certain races or ethnic groups have endured usually determine the mental state that the group is in. For African Americans, slavery or even racism as a whole can be named a culprit. Slavery was a traumatic experience that many Black people do not like to talk about. Slavery brings up feelings of disgust, degradation, pain, and anger. It has been over

As society has progressed towards non violence, racism has changed into a different form, with harsher psychological effects. A main cause of this psychological effect of racism is the stereotyping that society has accepted as normal (Anderson). Although it may be unintentional, it is easy to deny stereotyping exists, but difficult to prove that it does not exist. As Griffin recounts, “white society had everything sewed up. If you didn’t...say yes, you were in deep trouble. If you did, then you allowed [them] to go...on believing in the stereotype” (Griffin 167). He explains the idea society had created of a “good Negro” and a “bad Negro,” and reveals that African-Americans

the officer that declared him as a burglar. As a result, colored people feel the need to take justice into their hands by protecting themselves with weapons.

It is common knowledge that the topic of race is being examined all over the world. Frequently, more efforts are made through formation of policies, enactment of laws, and abolition of practices to obliterate racial discrimination. The pace of success of this endeavor is being delayed by the media because the media constantly portrays race in an inappropriate and derogatory manner. A race as described by Yolanda. T. Moses is a group of people who share similar and unique characteristics, while racial stereotypes are automatic and mental pictures held about all members of a particular social group. When people are stereotyped racially, they do not take into account individual differences .The media’s poor understanding of the true meaning of race has been communicated to the general public, making people think race is a biological phenomenon whereas it is socially and culturally constructed (Moses 735) and this has caused the increase in racial stereotypes by media’s continuous portrayal of negative stereotypes of different races all over the world.

African Americans became inferior to the white race when they were labeled as unintelligent through IQ tests. Unfortunately, the IQ tests only measured what students were able to fill out on a piece of paper with a pencil. The tests failed to show what people could do in the real world. These tests were inaccurate because a vast majority of African Americans were not given the same educational opportunities as Anglos. Due to the testing “results”, many teachers failed to correctly teach their diverse students because they already had stereotypes that make them doubt the student before they could reach their potential. When African Americans were placed in Anglo classes they doubted themselves because they knew that society had no hope for them.

These were some powerful lyrics by Kendrick Lamar in his song The Blacker the berry this verse talks about stereotypes in the black community. Michael Jordan, chicken, BET, these are all associated with the black community. Another thing associated with African Americans is crime. In a study done by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP for short) “African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population.” This had led to the misconception that most black people commit crime. Unfortunately it has been that way since the civil rights movement in the 1960’s. Police brutality has become the outcome of this stereotype. Police have been trained wrong and it has led to terrible

I like that you mentioned the effect of race with European settlers and indigenous people and the myths and stereotypes that come with race. This is such an interesting topic because much of the USA's history with race has strong associations with stereotypes that were used to keep a group of people oppressed.

So if black males were to change their minds and attitude then their altitude would go to greater heights. Due to circumstances such as financial situations, environments we live in, and etc. Black males tend to not think highly of achievement. So we have to change from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset. As we approach a challenge we might encounter a voice that say’s, “Are you sure about this? You probably aren’t fit for it.” “What if you fail – you’ll be a failure.” As this voice inside us tries to set us back, we need should take it as a setup. It is an advantage on our part because, we have the chance to take negative criticism and turn it into positive criticism. How we interpret challenges, setbacks, and criticism is totally up to us. We can interpret them in a fixed mindset as signs that are fixed abilities and talents need improving. Or we can simply interpret them in a growth mindset as signs that we need to ramp up our strategies and effort, stretch our self, and expand our abilities. So as we approach a challenge, our fixed mindset says, “Are you sure you can do it?” The growth mindset answer says, “I’m not sure I can do it now, but I think I can learn to with time and enough effort.” Over time our mind becomes completely under our submission and will. Whether we take on challenges wholeheartedly, learn from set backs and try again, hear negative criticism and act on it in our own hands. We have to learn to tune the distracting voice out and overcome

On a daily bases people make excuses for everything. Everything meaning our actions and the things that we say. Common things that we make excuse for deal with sexist, racist, and heterosexist comments. Sexist is classified as saying that one sex is better than the other. An example of this is someone calling a male or female something that they are not. I do not like this because we are all humans and deserve to be respected and not called something that is degrading. We all know that racist is downgrading one race compared to another. An example of this is, saying that all black people are loud and ghetto. We all act the same but some people do certain things different from others. That’s just there way of living. I do not think that just because one person acts one way the whole race does also. Heterosexist is defined as heterosexuality is better than all other expressions. An example of this would be talking about how a guy dresses and calling him gay. I do not agree with this as well because it is good to stand out and be your own person not matter how others see you.

The fear of success in blacks can also be looked at through many angles. Socially blacks tend to hinder each other by viewing success as “Acting white.” In the article Scholars Debate Theory that Blacks Equate Academic Success with 'Acting White ', Dr. Ronald F. Ferguson argues how success often equates to acting white in the black community. Ferguson argues, “Blacks value education and good grades just as much as whites, what it comes down to is time spent leisurely reading or doing extra work that is considered white” (page). John Uzo Ogbu another professor that argues in the article Black Students ' School Success: Coping with the Burden of 'Acting White, argues that this acclaim that blacks do n’t read leisurely isn’t true. “This isn’t true, and that kid’s answer questions to what they think the adult wants to hear, and the only way to make that assumption is to actually observe the kids”. I think that there is some true in both of their statements, but neither is all the way right.

In this article, psychologists Claude Steele, Joshua Aronson, and Steven Spencer prove to us about the existent stereotypic threat against African Americans or women that widens that achievement gap which people ignore or tend to think that it does not exist anymore. Many studies have been done where students have not performed well due to stereotypic pressure put onto them by educators and classmates. Steele and Aronson did a study where they give Black and White students the GRE and told them that this exam determined their intelligence which would give into the stereotype that Whites are more intelligent than Blacks. This put pressure on the students and when they result of the exams came out, it was proven that due to the stereotypic threat,

I conceal my face with layers of makeup hoping that half a bottle of BB cream will be enough to make me as flawless as Kylie Jenner look on the cover of Seventeen magazine. I use innumerous acne medications, aspiring to be as unblemished as the girls in the Clean and Clear commercials. I reject bags of M&Ms and fudge brownies thinking that my sacrifices will make me “love my body” as much as the emaciated Victoria Secret models love theirs (see appendix A). I routinely shave my legs and armpits and pluck my eyebrows with fear of becoming the hairy woman the media deems horrendous. I do everything, yet feel like I am nothing. Nothing compared to the beautiful women pictured on television, magazines, and