STEREOTYPE

Any time people call a blonde girl stupid, picture a Mexican guy with a sombrero and eating frijoles, and asume that an Asian kid is smart on school, they are stereotyping. In this century we live in we encounter with many diferent people, culture, race, nacionality and religión etc. Bringing as an advantage the social interacting and communication among others. This opportunity brings the people possitive and negative experiences. But the way of thinking and acts can turn into a misunderstanging giving as a consecuence the birth of

stereotypes.

Whenever there is a social interaction in society, stereotypes appear. They are universal and exist in every social group, community and culture. Stereotyping means to adopt an specific type and way of thinking or doing things. These thoughts and actions may not reflect the reality of what things really are. But, is there a way where stereotyping can be helpful? Stereotypes are never good, when people stereotype a person is exclude or harmed, not everything people believe its going to be true, it affects infinite aspects of everyones lifes, more than people think and sometimes it puts an unreasonable burden on people to do what stereotypes tell people to do or not to do. One of the most common example is gender profiling. Raising Young children telling them that men are always stronger than woman and that women are weak and can’t do the same work that man do. Showing them that girls are always gonna be weaker than them and leading them to think that “You are such a girl” is the biggest insult in history. As a consequence encouraging bullying behavior on children. Not forgetting to mention that sterotyping lead people to live by fear and insecurities. Many gays and lesbian are afraid to admit thei sexuality in fear of being judged for those homofobic people that stereotype that beeing gay is a bad thing.

So-called possitive stereotypes can be just as harmful and limiting as the negative ones. Having the capacity to be just as damaging as the negative ones. Thinking that all mothers arre carying and sweet, all black people are good at sports, all asians have the ability to play instruments are possitive stereotypes people habe created, but research shown that perceived positive stereotypes, when brought into the forefront of an individual’s mind, can actually make them do worse at the thing they are supposed to be able to do better.

The only problem with people is that they think its a social experience among community and groups. However getting rid of them wouldn't make people better, because thats the proof that makes society believe in something and have complete knowledge. So, what do we think, it is wrong to see stereotyping in a positive way?

According to Professor Donovan A. McFarlne, phycologyst of the Nova Souther University, it affirms thta stereotypes are not that bad. They can be helpful in society to discover

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