What does the word stereotype mean to you? To me stereotype is nothing but these assumptions that have become common knowledge. I am going to talk about my own perspective about stereotype itself and also going to talk about the social's perspectives about the issue. This view may arise from an incident or false belief and then maybe used to color the entire community with the same brush.
My first main point i am going to show both positive and negative sides of stereotyping but before i do i am going to define what stereotype means to me. Stereotype makes people generalize things. More often, they are all false assumptions. There are both positive and negative stereotypes but a majority of them are offensive. People generally stereotype out of bias against a particular group of individual people or religion. Stereotyping becomes a way of conveying their dislike and of course stereotyping, stems from a commonly held view of a particular group of race. For instance all Jewish people are greedy, selfish money hungry people with this example it is more likely said for people to act on to one another as racism OR in other words stereotyping.
Both sides of stereotype have affect people in general but more likely there a benefit of stereotypes to those being stereotyped is that the stereotype itself may be positive. Of course this can backfire if you benefit from a stereotype of a group in which you fit and it becomes clear that the stereotype does not apply to you. Nevertheless, certain stereotypes can help a person land a job, build a good reputation or even find love. One example of a positive stereotype is that Asians are good at math. In some cases this theory is more likely to be true. Furthermore in some areas of Asia education promotes math skills, this stereotype can potentially lead to an edge at a job where an employer is consciously or unconsciously mindful of it.
News, movies and the internet show many negative aspects on certain characteristics of ethnicity itself to relate more to the audience due to their behavior. According to the newsletter: Negative portrayals of the Hispanic population' they have been part of the history of cinema and TV production for decades. Racial stereotypes and the lack of media literate culture have created an acceptance on this matter. Common knowledge is that behavior depends on many variables rather than origin alone. For instance a delusion about the minorities in America has led to a series of conflict and an increasing dispersal across the community. Furthermore, racism occurs in the centuries before and during the first half of the 20th century. This is where black African American's were often portrayed by the whites as evil, uncivilized and unchristian people. In addition, the white colonists commonly believed that black people were inferior to white people and these thoughts helped to justify black slavery, and the institution of many laws that continually condoned inhumane treatment to keep black people in a lower socioeconomic situation.
To conclude this has affected everyone in many ways either positive or negative but its the way we stereotype and affect others, Stereotype is an awful disease that is dispersed around the world which causes humiliation to people such as their race, ethnicity, and gender. A quotation by Matthew Bomer relates to what I'm talking about "Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are" with this saying it helps me to stop and think about what i am going to say to others but other than that i thank you for listening to my speech and i also hope that you have learnt something about stereotyping others.
