Stereotypes About Christians

One of the greatest stigmas held towards Christians is that they are very judgemental. Many people believe that Christians are too quick to judge someone and never really bother to figure out what those people actually think and why they think a certain way on something. Sadly, this stigma that is linked to Christians will always be a part of the word Christian. So why is it that when people hear the word Christian, they automatically think “judgemental”? There are many reasons one of them being that while many Christians are more concerned about looking good in front of other Christians and non Christians. Through my personal experience of being raised in a Christian home and being required to attend church, it is very easy for me to agree

A “stereotype” is a shortcut for a human’s brain to make a snap judgment based on immediately visible characteristics like gender, race, or age. This is when people become biased. For example, the stereotype that girls can’t play baseball made Timmy Oglethorpe and his friends ignore Hazel and not let her join their game. However, in reality, girls are just as capable as boys.

What are stereotypes? How do they form? How can we solve this issue for the greater good? There are many definitions to describe a stereotype, but the one that many people agree with, like psychologists is that stereotypes are prejudgments and gossip about the world. However, one phrase that goes perfectly with this topic will be “Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover”. This goes in hand with this topic, because we make prejudgments about how we see our world without knowing what exactly it’s going on around us. In addition, stereotypes start forming throughout our childhood years, since at that age; we learn to define what is right from wrong in our surroundings. One way to resolve this issue is to accept the world as it is. This means that instead

Stereotypes are a form of prejudice everyone will once experience in their lifetime. Stereotypes are centered around an individual's race, gender, social class, religion, and age. They have been known to be elements people use to make judgments and subjectify people to one key feature. As Gordon Allport states, “ To state the matter technically, a noun abstracts from a concrete reality some one features and assembles different concrete realities only with respect to this one feature”(364). Mr.Allport’s words can be summed up to say stereotypes have been used as key fundamentals to associate one feature or aspect of a person with a group that represents it, typically in an unfavorable way.

Lately, I‘ve been thinking a lot about the- for lack of a better term- “culture shock” in which I live. I am a black, non-religious, uber-liberal, female; a lot of my beliefs have formed through information that I have sought out through various mediums. I come from a super-religious family that lives in the suburbs and the inner city. They have beliefs that are “democratic”, while being rooted in religious extremes. I live in a community of people who are mostly Caucasian, and have for over 4 years. A lot of them are religious, and there are varying political beliefs. I get a lot of weird vibes from both communities and sometimes I feel like I exist in a weird gray area that inhibits my ability to fit in with my surroundings.

Some examples of this are: Chinese and Indians are good in math and sciences, but are poor in English and humanities, White Americans are lazy, obese, and judgmental towards other races and are highly materialistic. Italians are always in a mob, Irish people are always drunk and African Americans are drug peddlers, thugs, good dancers, and good at athletics. Additionally, there are other forms of stereotypes such as: gender stereotypes that are based on an individual’s gender and some examples are: men make great business leaders and women make good homemakers, men are masculine and strong, women are good cooks, they want to have babies and make great nurses. Another stereotype is social class that is based on social status in society and some examples of this are: homeless people have behavioral problems, are into substance abuse, lazy and smelly, working class are naive and not street smart, and upper class are judged as being shallow, arrogant and untrustworthy

The dictionary defines stereotypes as “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.” Our world today is run by an infinite amount of stereotypes. They affect every aspect of people's’ lives. Members of society let others’ opinions affect their own, and people who go against stereotypes are frowned upon. Some stereotypes include those surrounding African Americans, people of Asian descent, and transgendered people. Most people look at an African American male and either get scared of him, assume he raps, our plays sports. However not every single black male in the world partakes in those activities. Some people look at Asians and assume they are all smart, and good at every subject in school, but that

For example, one of the stereotypes is the controversial topic of priest being pedophiles. The religion and the church have developed a bad reputation regarding this matter. Not all priest fall under this category. Another additional stereotype is “Why do we idolize saints and the Virgin Mary”? It’s not believed to be idolization, is respect. It is believed that God created earth, and that’s who we idolize. An additional stereotype is “all Mexican drug lord cartels are catholic? There catholic and they kill! I am astonished to hear these types of stereotypes, religion has nothing to do with the violence those individual choose. Another comment is “Catholic religion is so strict”. Another stereotype is Mexican Catholic families have big families because the religion does not believe in birth control and they use religion for everything, and why do they drink and party too much? I was once asked about a several stereotypes, I have been asked if my beliefs were forced upon me, do I think I am better than everybody else, and can you do whatever you want as long you go to confession. I was not offended when questioned about the stereotyping. I felt the person that had questioned just didn’t have a worldview about other people’s

One very common stereotype would be race or ethnicity. This one can by far go both ways, a common trait for this stereotype would be if you're black you must be good at sports or if you're a white teenage girl, you must like a starbucks. Grouping an individual like this could make someone feel very low and not highly of themselves if they can't hit a three or throw a ball around. As mentioned on simplepsycology.com a study was done on ethnicities, “White Americans, for example, were seen as industrious, progressive and ambitious. African Americans were seen as lazy, ignorant and musical.”(Katz Braly,

According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary stereotype is a, “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing”. Society puts out a certain set of standards and roles of men and women and the way in which they should act, known as gender roles. According to these behaviour stereotypes, the ideal man is intelligent, physically strong, heroic, in charge and is ultimately there to provide for his family. In comparison, the typical women is portrayed as beautiful, delicate, inferior to men and are viewed as the housekeeper; taking care of the children and putting food on the table while the men goes to work. These gender roles start to be enforced at a very young age as a result of society and the media. A prime example of this is Disney and the movies they create for young children. Almost all Disney movies are based

If you say you’ve never heard a stereotype about someone else or yourself, you’re either a liar or very oblivious. Stereotypes are simplified conceptions of a group, and they are literally everywhere. People often tend to assume that all Asians are geniuses, black people like watermelon and listen to rap, white girls crave Starbucks 24/7 and are always wearing leggings or yoga pants, the elderly don’t understand technology, and homosexual men are flamboyant and love fashion. No matter what race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or age group someone belongs to, he or she most likely has a stereotype attached to who he or she is. Sometimes, these assumptions are in fact true, but other times they are completely inaccurate. Many are

All most everyone in there lifetime has stereotyped others are have been a victim of stereotypes. A stereotype is the belief about another culture, race or a person that has no logic or evidence to support there negative thoughts. Many people believe that when a person stereotypes another it is the lack of information or ignorance

“A stereotype is a rigid, oversimplified, often exaggerated belief that is applied both to an entire social category of people and to each individual within it. Stereotypes form the basis for prejudice, which in turn is used to justify discrimination and attitudes. They can be positive as well as negative.” Stereotypes exist within any social group, and social group or cliques which are groups of people who share similar characteristics and interests such as the ones priorly said.

Stereotypes refers to the features imposed upon individual groups which are conventional, formulaic and exaggerated regarding to their nationality, race and sexual alignment, among many others (Stuart Ewen & Elizabeth Ewen; 2006). These features tend to be over simplications of the groups involved. For instance, somebody who meets some few people from a certain country and finds them to be old fashioned and quit may spread to all the people from the country in question are reserved and quiet. A simplification like this doesn’t tolerate diversity among groups and may lead in stigmatization and wrong perception of the groups if the stereotypes associated to them are largely negative (Hilton &von, 1996). Even the so known as

Stereotypes can be seen everywhere. It can be about a certain race, sexuality, gender, age, class, physical ability or disability, etc. They are ideas or beliefs that are oversimplified on the kind of person or thing they are. The reason why there are stereotypes is because we want to categorize and understand the world around us. But it is not that simple to break down things that are very complex and really understand them. Culture plays a part since it what shapes our experience and reality. Gender is not a universal thing. We are not aware how our culture impacts our way of thinking and perception of the world. But like gender, understanding culture depends on one’s perception and interpretation.