Stereotypes And Discrimination In Schools

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.

Throughout the years, racial stereotypes have played a major role in society. Even today, one combines racial stereotypes and prejudice thoughts before one even says a word to the person. Just seeing an African- American man while in a parking lot and pulling out ones phone, can be a simple example of modern-day racial stereotypes.

Stereotypes can be defined as sweeping generalizations about members of a certain race, religion, gender, nationality, or other group. They are made everyday in almost every society. We develop stereotypes when we are unable or unwilling to obtain all the information we would need to make fair judgments about people or situations. By stereotyping, we assume that a person or group has certain characteristics. Quite often, we develop these ideas about people who are members of groups with which we have not had firsthand contact. Stereotyping usually leads to unfair results, such as discrimination, racial profiling, and unnecessary violence, all behaviors which need to be stopped.

Stereotypes are a streamlined idea of a certain group which can eventually spread prejudice which is a belief on a group of people. The difference is that stereotypes can be formed by experiences whereas prejudices are people taking a stereotype and believing it, but they do not have experience on a certain group. For example, a person may have seen that some Mexicans act rough and messy, but that person could share their experiences with other people who may not know Mexicans well. As a result, other people will take that stereotype and believe it, forming a prejudice inside their mind. If they were to meet a Mexican person, they would just assume that they are all rough and messy, despite having no prior experiences with Mexicans. Discrimination can consist of actions done to a group of people. Discrimination is not the same as Racism as discrimination is the unequal treatment of a person based on their race. Racism is a stronger type of prejudice that is used to claim that one race is superior to other races. An example of Racism is the Ku Klux Klan as their members believe whites are superior to any other race. They do not discriminate by mistreating other races. Instead, they spread hate speech and commit hate crimes to try to show that whites are better than other races.

Stereotypes surround us everywhere we go; they are imbedded in our thoughts, conversations, and actions alike, and are simply regarded as “human nature”, but what if they are affecting us more than we think? Sometimes, they are so disguised or normal to us, that we forget what a stereotype really is, or how it began. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a stereotype is “to believe unfairly that all people

Racism has been an issue for many years, it started from the beginning of mankind before people started traveling and exploring the world, it's natural for humans to abhor what they aren't familiar with, especially when it's found in other human beings. Racism is easily taught when children are the ones being informed, because of their unawareness towards the world, they can easily pick up on the adult behavior around them. Children pick up on what they see and act upon it, and racism is just one of many examples of that. Racism has been created socially, mostly by people who aren't aware or fail to acknowledge the different nationalities that this world has, Discrimination can only be avoided, starting with the root of the problem.

However, the most popular answer was school, which means students do realize the stereotypes that occur around them in an educational setting. When asked what kinds of stereotypes they have heard of they replied with “Cheerleaders are dumb”, “Asians are smart”, “Women are weak, men are stronger.” My classmates and I then asked how they dealt with these stereotypes. In other words, how they respond to it. Some responses were to confront the person, work hard to prove the stereotype wrong, or ignore it. Majority of everyone chose ignoring the stereotypes or not paying much attention to it. This overall evidence shows that students at North High are aware of the stereotypes that happen, even though most say to ignore it, I still believe it can get to them in certain

Imagine this, the teacher is going over a lesson about word parts. The teacher goes over prefixes, and suffixes. Jimmy gets tired of listening to the teacher and pulls up his computer. Everyone else in the class is listening to the lesson, but Jimmy goes on the web. The teacher notices Jimmy on the computer, but does not say a word, as he knows soon Jimmy will learn his lesson. The kids are staring at Jimmy and laughing, but the teacher gets them on task. They take a blank piece of lined paper out of their binders and start taking important notes. Jimmy decides not to care and keep on browsing the web. He looks at shoes, basketball equipment, and the football playoff scores. The kids in the class finish taking notes, but the teacher knows how to get Jimmy’s attention.

School has always treated both sexes the same; a different approach should be taken when teaching boys in class. Boys think and act differently when compared with girls, so why treat them the same? During High School the phase of puberty begins with most boys. This is when you see them turn into men. Everyone knows that they grow larger and more muscular, but many don’t understand what’s going on in the developing males mind. A rush of testosterone is produced in the body that changes the way they act; this rush of testosterone often brings along aggressive behavior with it. Teachers often discipline males into believing that their actions during this phase are improper; but I disagree.

Stereotypes are prevailing and oversimplified ideas of particular groups of people or certain things, and they have been around for a long time. Stereotypes are immensely detrimental to a myriad of people because they abject and discriminate them, as well as cause division and separation amongst certain communities. Breaking stereotypes is important due to the social climate that we are currently in today. Racism and discrimination are ubiquitous because people of colour are painted in a negative light due to the stereotypes they are given.

Imagine. You are recently retired and going home after a long day of shopping. You get on the bus and look for an unoccupied seat. There are none, but the closest to you is a girl and a boy next to her who is playing music loudly through dark headphones. You think about this girl if she could give up her seat to you, but you hesitate due to the excessive use of dark colours these young people are sporting. The girl looks up at you and immediately rushes to remove her person from the seat to let you sit. You cautiously take the seat next to the boy who looks up at you revealing two thick black rings in his lip. He smiles and so does the girl. You thank both of them quietly, unsure about their friendliness. Do you still act upon your misjudgments?

Stereotypes are by definition a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person. Stereotypes can apply to other things as well but I will focus on the stereotypes seen in society. As we have seen in “To Kill a Mockingbird”, stereotypes have been present throughout history. However, it seems that even though stereotypes usually carry negative effects on people with their presence, they have lingered with us for some strange reason.

In my country, women are not important and are not placed in influential positions, thus, being there would have deprived me of getting an education that would satiate my hunger for knowledge and wisdom, the hunger to be something and help the world better itself. As a woman, I would like to be an engineer and break all stereotypes that restrict women from pursuing an education in math. I was born in Iraq, the country of war, and within that country, women are meant for childbirth and care giving. There was no chance at an education that empowered women in the math field, or a male dominant field. During the time that I lived there, which was during the American-Iraq war, an opportunity for education was even tougher to chase after due to the danger that lied within the country. Although I was an

In order for those on the outside to attempt to understand why students in the AUC chose their particular schools, they must first look at the stereotypes attached to each of these institutions, and how they may affect a student’s decision. These stereotypes include the sexuality of students at a certain institution and a persons’ worthiness, or lack there of, due to their school choice among many more. The effect these stereotypes have on a students’ school choice may vary from person to person, and this can be witnessed by the answers received from those in the focus group. When deciding on which higher learning institution to attend, it is important to look at all aspects. As each person gets closer to deciding on which school to attend,

Teachers can positively influence a school-age child to not hold biases or prejudices by telling them that there is no difference, in all human beings we all should be treated equal. Some school-age are influenced by others that are not like them then just treat them differently. Example: My daughter’s teacher always had a debate about being different and how each race is different but the same. So that’s what made the school-age feel differently towards each other. One school-age boy who were always picked on doing the debate because no one understood him, telling him he needs to speak better English and this what always got the other talking about racism. So, the teacher had to stop the debate. Most, teacher knows how to handle classes