Real Life Reference Group Analysis

The TED Talk watched in class provided a very real story about the essence of stereotyping. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie mentioned how when coming to the United States and being in college made an object that many have not really encountered. A prime example of this in her case would be of her writing of a novel that was deemed “not African enough”. Just like Adichie faced, stereotypes are a seemingly way to define the normal or the expectation. Once broken it challenges our underlying assumptions of a group people that can be used to challenge power structures in place.

Many different groups are recognizing this as a big problem and taking it to the government level. As the gender gap hopefully diminish, along with it should go prejudices. Making someone feel less of a person is a bitter situation to experience. The podcast Relationship Radio perfectly resembles the reality of society’s past and present. The use of the relationships in The Great Gatsby were perfect examples of unhealthy relationships and how objectification affects both males and females. History proves that things can improve, but there is always more room for

. This is a huge problem in todays society. Gender stereotypes are a set of expectations of what a girl or a boy should act and look like. While many people tend to stay in their respective stereotype, there are still many who objectify the stereotype and are usually judged for it. This has taken away the idea of being an individual.

These stereotypes have followed African American women into the now and have an adverse effect on the way adolescent, as well as young women look at themselves. These stereotypes, particularly the matriarch and jezebel stereotype cause mistrust in the African American in-group especially with the men. Stereotyping also causes discrimination in the workplace, educational settings and by service providers (Thomas, Hacker, Hoxha 2011). Black women are also more likely to be picked on, lied about or sexually harassed (Thomas et al., 2011). These stereotypes also make black women feel bad about having normal emotions and feelings such as anger and sexual

We think that men and women play certain roles in this society and it shouldn’t be seen that way because they can do whatever they want. You mainly find stereotypes in school, but they can also be found with friends and family yet most people don’t stand up for themselves when they are getting stereotyped. They lower our performance academically and also our self esteem. We all need to stand up for ourselves when we’re being stereotyped so we can move on and create a better place for

“Beauty is subjective, yet American society creates an objective facade of what beauty is and how it looks and that is one does not fit into it than they are not “attractive,” superficially over substance, Americans simply are uncomfortable being themselves” (Williams). The beauty standards for women are shaped by society’s ideas of beauty. When women try to fit these beauty standards to be accepted, society thinks they have the right to objectify women and their bodies. The pressure can lead to eating disorders or even depression. Beauty standards for women are getting to a point where they are almost unrealistic, and often leads to someone objectifying a women’s body, these habits lead to things most people don't think about it.

Being a young Caucasian woman, I feel as though society has stereotyped me as a coffee drinking, yoga loving, UGG boot wearing female incompetent of thinking for herself. I am expected to drive a new Mercedes Benz, throw a temper tantrum when daddy won't hand over his credit card, and have a mental breakdown when the holidays come to an end because that means the infamous Starbucks pumpkin spice latte will no longer be available. Social media has coined a phrase for these issues and that is “white girl problems”. I prefer the term “racial stereotyping”.

Between the nights of the 20th-24th of June, Special Purpose Group ‘Accardo’ spitted up in three groups led by Accardo, Martinsen, and Bauer. Fortunately for Action Andy and Chandler the Fair, their reserve group was already in full motion, thus allowing three subsequent actions to occur. In theory, according to their plans at the time, the two Nightingales believed that dividing the combined into three groups could allow them to achieve three separate goals, which they believe were loosely connected with each other.

Race, Class and Gender issues are commonly brought up. Throughout history many groups have been stigmatized not just for their race, but for their sex, and class as well. People of lower class incomes get slandered for where they live and for not having the economical means to purchase most common goods. Women have been considered the weaker sex for centuries, and currently, some of the old fashioned and ignorant theories on women being subordinate to men prevail.

Throughout our American society, there have been topics, or more specifically, issues, that have been implemented in our lives. Whether it be poverty, economic issues, equality, and thus forth, there is one what has always been around for centuries, but has made a bigger impact is stereotyping. This in-particular topic has lead to a multitude of problems, such as social categorization, and the cause of prejudice. The stereotyping propaganda in the United States has caused more problems and attracted more attention than is truly needed.

I have also experienced stereotyping just for being a woman. It is under the assumptions that because I am a woman I am suppose to be weak. I do not believe this to be true at all, but certain people do believe that it is true. I think a woman is as strong as she thinks she is and can do anything she sets her mind to. I am a marathon runner and I always I run like a girl, but when I say that I meant it that running like a girl means running to fierce, running to be strong, running to be a better version of myself than I was yesterday, running to learn to love my body, but more importantly running for all those who cannot. I do not think that a woman should be degraded to saying that she is not strong enough to do something.

Your post was interesting. It is true that we tend to compare ourselves to certain individuals we don't even know. It is also not uncommon to orient ourselves to more than one reference group at a time. One’s family members, teachers, and co-workers shape different aspects of our self evaluation. In addition, certain reference group attachments change during the life cycle. We shift reference groups as we take on different statuses during our lives.

Society likes to keep the stereotypical roles that have been around for decades. If people fit these roles, they are deemed to be more pleasing and beautiful than the women who do not follow these stereotypical roles. Women are supposed to be dependent, emotional, quiet, modest, and weak. When women do not follow the “normal” characteristics, they are often shamed. If a women is independent, people assume she thinks she is better than everyone. If a

Overall, there are many negative phrases that are always circulating people’s mouths in this world. As a child growing up I was always taught to never judge someone by their physical appearance, gender, race, etc. Over the years I have heard innumerable amounts of insults towards a variety of people. In some cases, some of the stereotypes that have been around for years are starting to fade as people are becoming more educated and aware of the false statements. Even though each of the negative things on the list are true about some people, it does not mean that all the people that are categorized in each group have the same label. I will always be surprised by the stereotypes that still live on and are spread by people. For example, there

Stereotypes are very problematic in society. It places specific labels about how an individual should behave or live their lives according to their sex, race, class or gender. This could have a dramatic affect on certain individuals who possibly like or enjoy different things; things that are not what some might call the norm. But stereotypes cause them to feel humiliated for doing so. Stereotypes have and continue to form a misrepresentation of how every individual “ought” to act, think or behave. One of the stereotypes that have the greatest effect in our society is Gender stereotyping; gender stereotyping is defined in Webster dictionary “as generalizing males and females. Gender stereotypes are based on a “complex mix of beliefs, behaviors, and characteristics.”These assumptions that others make could possibly be true to some individuals, but on the other hand affect our decision in a negative way towards the opposite sex. This points to gender stereotyping producing disagreements between males and females, because of their unrealistic expectations that they have set of each other. Which in turn will cause problems in their progression towards adulthood. Since the beginning of time society has always kept a constant definition on what it means to be a “woman”, children are taught pretty much since birth that once they are born they placed into a certain categories, girls are dressed in pink onesises to depict femininity. Society, not biological bases, limits males and