- Asian people have high IQs, are smart in math and very good at puzzles and technology.
- Indians work at a deli. or own a convenient store.
- Immigrants have poor English.
- Jewish people are cheap.
- Black people are in gangs and are violent
- White people think their better than everyone else
- Irish people are alcoholics
- Mexican people steal
- Italian people are in the mafia
- People from the middle east are terrorist
- Colombian people are drug dealers
- Black people love kool-aid and fried chicken
- All Mexican people are illegally here
- Native American people live in tee pees, smoke pipes and beat drums all day
- German people are Nazis
- Black people don't know how to speak proper English
- White people from the south are racist
- All Asian people are small
- South American people all smoke weed
- I think all of these are ridiculous and I personally don't use these to generalize about anyone. Just because one person may be like this, doesn't mean everyone is.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Stereotypes
Here are just a few stereotypes I can think of that have to do with race (some are positive and some are negative stereotypes).
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Where do you think stereotypes come from? How do they exist and continue to get perpetuated? I suggest watching an episode of "Cops".
ReplyDeleteI think stereotypes come from a few people who actually lived up to them. When thinking about it, they most likely came from somewhere and that somewhere might have been because a few mexican people stole, and then all of a sudden people assume every mexican person steals. Some stereotypes are more forced apon a certain race of people. For instance, asian people do tend to have smaller builds in their bodies. That's not to say every asian person is small, but someone started generalizing and it became used a lot. Generalizing is what stereotypes are all based on. It's unfortunate to think that a few people defined some of the big stereotypes people use today. It's hard to say when and where they all came from and how many people it took to think that stereotype up. Never-the-less, many races do many things, and it's not right to pin-point a particular activity or attribute to one race, as if they are all the same. We know for a fact not one person is totally alike to another, so you would think that stereotypes would no longer exist/exist in the first place.
ReplyDelete(I will go into detail about why they are still here in my next blog)
I will also watch an episode of cobs (and try to get through the whole thing :))