The Interlocutor's Misconceptions

Many people have an oversimplified and erroneous view of a certain group of people. Stereotypes are typically associated with having negative connotations of a particular group of people. In many occasions, positive qualities of the group are overlooked and they are instead categorized by social norms created by stereotypes. Stereotyping affects everyone, whether it is through the discrimination of age, race, gender

Stereotypes happen when we have a certain judgment for a particular group of people beyond their behaviors in the society. Miladinovic declares, “In an intercultural setting, their use increases our sense of security and is psychologically necessary to the degree that we cannot tolerate ambiguity or the sense of helplessness when we cannot understand or deal with other people and situations”(“Overcoming Obstacles Intercultural Communication”). In “An Introduction to Intercultural Communication”, Jandt states, “Psychologists have attempted to explain stereotyping as mistakes our brains make

In many circles of the world, various groups of people distinguish themselves from one another through religion, language, culture, and sometimes gender. People also develop stereotypes about a particular group of people in order to identify them. However, most of the time, these stereotypes hold true for only some members of a group. Sometimes, these stereotypes are just plain misconceptions that do not even apply to the group it claims to. Stereotypes are placed on people because it is a way to easily identify what type of person or ethnicity an individual is. At one point in time, these stereotypes may have been true; however, in today’s modern society, most of these stereotypes are outdated and false, which leads them to turn into

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

Stereotypes and generalizations have negatively depicted the image and character of individuals and groups throughout time. In making these stereotypes we forget about the true character of the individual or group. Somehow throughout time what we have gathered and decided through stereotypes has created the everlasting image we have of one another, it's been hard to change the viewpoint ever since. Through the reading of this article and attaining continuous information of the harm of stereotypes are placing in our world we can start to move away from these unfortunate depictions.

In life, there is a common ground on which most every person can relate. At one time or another, we have all been promoters of or victims of the unremitting nature of stereotypes. According to the Webster’s dictionary, a stereotype is defined as “a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group.” Most stereotypes take on a negative form and are based on characteristics such as age, gender, race, status, and personal beliefs. Generally speaking, the greatest problem that arises with stereotypes is that they judge group of people by the characteristics and actions of their ancestors, rather than on an individual basis. More often than not, these assumptions will

Stereotypes have great impacts on people all over the world. One of the reasons why people believe stereotypes blindly is that they know less about the objects. In order to decline the uncertainty of this new object, people choose to believe the stereotypes to feel safer. For the purpose of understanding the world more objectively, we ought to treat stereotypes critically and at least not be convinced of stereotypes blindly anymore.

Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe once said, “The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity- that is's this or maybe that- you have just one large statement; it is this”(Achebe). Stereotypes are generalized beliefs held about a group of people. Because of the broadness of statements of this nature, they are never completely true. Stereotypes are prevalent in today’s society, and they can have negative affects on those who are labeled.

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.

A teen, walking by a field on a sunny summer afternoon, hears in distance “Hands on your hips, a smile on your lips, spirit in your heart, we’re ready to start!”. The first thing that flew by his mind was short, stuck up cheerleaders. This common stereotype is typically used to describe cheerleaders of all age groups. A stereotype is a widely held image of a group that is based on some truth, but it also exaggerated. Stereotypes are more commonly negative than positive. People use stereotypes because psychologically, people like to categorize which then leads to stereotypes. Similarly, misconceptions are derived by stereotypes but are slightly different; misconceptions involve a person’s attitude. Misconceptions are incorrect conclusions about

Individuals are bound by the community and culture that they are involved in, and many cases people tries to define them as a group, and idea of stereotypes, defined as “… fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing” (Stereotype [Def. 1], n.d.) begins to form. However when these stereotypes are held among the larger population,

Misconseptions on the other hand, are derived from stereotypes of a group that have no origin for the misconseption. Misconseptions are unfounded assumptions a person does or has because he or she is in the group. For example, in the 1990’s at the height of the AIDS/HIV scare, it was believed homosexuals are more likely to contract the virus than heterosexuals. The misconseptoion has no basis or any study to back it up and future studies proved that everyone is at equal risk to contract the virus during unprotected sex, which ended the misconseption.

Misconceptions and stereotypes are two different problems in society. Stereotypes is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Its a is a

Stereotypes and misconceptions are just false presumptions of groups. Misconceptions are just wrong ideals of groups that have been formed because of a lack of information on a group or been told false information about the group from the individuals who are biased of the group. While stereotypes are false presumptions of groups formed because of a small percentages in the groups who are extremely ideal and fit the stereotypical views said of the group. Many of the individuals of the groups are most likely enraged that the mass of the public believe these stereotypes just because of these handful of stereotypical extremists. However, many in today’s society unconsciously stereotype many groups on a daily basis because of the lack of

perspectives that people discover from their parents and from others in society might be stereotypes and they do not realize this is happening(Parrillo 517).