Stereotypes: A Narrative Analysis

The single story is about how a people stereotypes one another based on what they learned through books, media, people, and other sources. For example, Chimamnda announced how she viewed Mexicans as immigrants and them trying to get through the borders, but the moment she stepped foot into Mexico the perspective she got from other sources changed everything. She was ashamed of herself because when she visit the view was completely different because what she saw was happiness, love, and fun. The single story is an image that is created based upon information that was given, but not on your own perspective. In other words, it is the truth to the reality. For example, when people hear of Niagara everyone think of land, poor, Africa, homeless,

The danger of a single story is that they let the powerful downgrade the weaker because they create stereotypes, they can hurt the people, and no one gets represented from the culture.

Have you ever noticed how violence is just a result of racism? Hate crimes have been occurring all over the country. Just look around you! IT’S EVERYWHERE!!!! Out of all of the hate crimes, even including the ones like gender, disability, ethnicity, religion,etc., race has fueled the most violence. There are so many killings, murders, shootings,etc. They are hard to keep track of! Let’s look at one well known group in particular where we see a criminal history. The KKK (Klu Klux Klan) started with a group of confederate soldiers creating a path of destruction and pain and grew to even larger numbers even after the war was over! It’s growth was fueled by hate for a certain race. Seriously? You are going to kill and hurt someone because of how they look? That is MESSED UP. Some of our wars, in the past and present, were fought just because of racial inequality - civil war, World War II. We have to accept and trust each other and not worry about the color of our skin getting in between us. ENOUGH WITH THE HATE!!!!! YOU ARE HOLDING YOURSELF BACK FROM A PATH TO

“Elders, this is a scan of Katherine Ayla Regan’s brain when she arrived here yesterday. I’d like you to note the unusual activity in the parietal lobe. She tapped the screen, and the parietal lobe became greater. Kat looked at the screen confused. A weird pink light was pulsing across the lobe.

When we were innocent, and young, the world was our chew toy, and we thought, as we licked our lemon lollies, and played hopscotch and jumped rope, that we could handle anything, because we were oblivious of the lies, that hung like thick sheets of smoke, a veil over the truth, that we call our world. And as we sat in our dining rooms, under crystal chandeliers, with our turkeys and blueberry pies, we didn’t know that, half a world away, lay a starving child, homeless, motherless, and lifeless, and couldn’t afford a single blueberry, much less the whole pie.

Lux stands there motionless. Mallory and Anastasia run over embracing her. Walking her over to the couch to sit down.

“No one is born hating another person because the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” – Nelson Mandela. In today’s society, minorities deal with racial issues such as racial profiling, racial bullying in institutions, and because of these racial attitudes, groups and movements have formed due to these acts. To this day, society is still burdened with many people who do not fully grasp the concept of equality; because of this, outdated racial attitudes are still an ongoing issue in modern society.

Anyway, going back to when we were kids, sometimes Ken would babysit me and Maddie. He was 14 at the time and no one knew then how unstable he was, my parents thought that they could trust him. The first time that he crossed the line we were outside playing. It was a cold day in December, I'll always remember that because I was nervous about the upcoming Christmas pageant at school.

It was a very cold and windy night, the wind was so loud it sounded like one of our members from our pack howling. The cold winter was slowly creeping up on us. The sky had never been darker than tonight it was a grey and black mix, kinda like our fur coats that everyone trembled over, but it was faintly streaked with purple. My two brothers, two sisters, and I have been our own pack since our parents died when they went out hunting following the rich smell of sickness and weakness towards town. We hadn’t eaten in days and our prey were finally outsmarting us as much as we hated to admit it and we were slowly starving to death. Usually on the prairie we could find dear or even bunny rabbits that were just waiting to be teared apart from our

It was ten minutes until the start of class when they approached me. Donning dark jeans, fresh highlights, and an air of seventh grade superiority, these two girls had caught wind of a rumor and had come to see if it held any truth. “We heard you were adopted,” one said to me. “Is that true?” I was flushed with a mixture of shame and embarrassment, the girls’ stares piercing me as I grappled with my response. I was faced with two options: either admit it, which seemed as attractive a choice as gnawing off one’s leg; or lie, denying what I knew to be a fact. Deciding, I turned to the two girls, looked them straight in the eye, and muttered, “I don’t know who told you that but it’s a lie. I wasn’t adopted.” Their eyebrows furrowed together and my heart seized in my chest, hoping they wouldn’t interrogate me further, praying they would believe me. After an

There exists in our community a monster, a monster as old as mankind itself. This monster is known by many names; some call it racism, others discrimination but the only thing certain about this monstrosity is that it can be overcome if we all unite to fight against it. Racism is “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race” (Merriam Webster). Racism has multiple causes ranging from living in a secluded community, to the basic instincts of mankind which likes exemplify the differences found in others not like themselves. Racism can destroy the foundations on which a community is laid upon and can intrude upon the peace and sanction of many of its members. By informing members of the community on the reasons why racism continues to persist, encouraging acceptance and providing further education on how to relieve racial tensions, we can resolve the issue of racism once and for all.

Hate groups have been around for many years, and don’t seem to be going anywhere any time soon. According to an article in the Washington Post, hate groups have rose for the first time in 2015. Just last year, “a year characterized by levels of polarization”, there was a 14% spike in hate groups. Hate groups are a danger to everyone because you never know who is participating in hate groups or if you are a target of a hate group. Religion hate groups are not as popular today, as the Ku Klux Klan and Black Separatist groups. The WCOTC is a religious hate group that has been around since the 1973 and still exist today (Chokshi, 2015).

Throughout the history of the United States, multiple hate groups have been created to induce racism; unfortunately, many of these groups still persist such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Neo-Nazi, the Christian Identity, and the General Hate. These hate groups have terrorized people and in numerous cases violence would get involved. The Ku Klux Klan is one of the most known throughout history because of their terrible history of violence. This particular Christian group focused on blacks, immigrants, homosexuals, Catholics, and Jews. Sadly, the Ku Klux Klan is responsible for numerous murders against their targets. Many other groups followed the path that the Ku Klux Klan organization began by believing the idea that a specific ethnicity could be superior to another. These hate groups have only inspired hatred between people and have spread throughout the United States as is demonstrated on the map below. Paul Butler said, "People get tired of talking about race, talking about discrimination, but it is as real as gravity and unless we deal with it, we are not going to make any progress." Racism separates people and changes their behavior and their mentality about life especially because it is the act of judging without knowing the person. For this, many people rather ignore the problem the United States has with racism than acknowledge that it is a problem concerning people’s

People have stereotyped against each other from the very early civilization until the present day. They discriminate against looks, race, beliefs, actions and may even do it because a group of people they associate with are doing it. The reasons why people discriminate against each other are infinite; insecurity, misinformation, upbringing and lack of empathy are just a few reasons. Doris Lessing advises, “People…may agree that the hardest thing in the world is to stand out against one’s group, a group of one’s peers” (2). The KKK are a group of white supremacists who

When I was only a little girl, I had been told that true beauty came from within. Yet as I grew up, I noticed that looks mattered. From their attractiveness, race, age, or gender, anyone’s image was always up for scrutiny. Under those circumstances, I grew up thinking that if people were to judge me based on my appearance, that I should judge them the same way. Though, as I became older, I at some point learned that how a person looked wasn’t always in their range of control. A person simply isn’t born with the choice of picking what they look like, nor are they born with the choice of having a genetic disorder or disease. In that case, I believe that nobody should be defined purely based on what they look like.