Racism And Its Effects On Gender Stereotypes

Racism is a belief that there is a definite difference among various human racial groups which leads to unequal treatments. Racist is usually prejudice, and some people might discriminate someone because of his or her race. Everyone has done something racist in their lifetime, but the level of discrimination is different. It is a common fact that one should not treat a person base on their race, and everyone should be respected equally. Although children have been educated about ethnicity, not holding prejudgment against racial groups.
The environment has affected my biases idea towards how I might treat a person. Humans live together and learn from each other. People have a tendency to compare themselves to others and give different level …show more content…
From the moment a child is born, he is like a little sponge, taking in all the information given to him. From what I learn from my background is black relates to death, evil, and disasters, and white correlate with life, pure, and hope. Because the IAT test is a very American-focused test, they are open about their racism, so my result was not among the biggest percentage of the statistics. If the test was more Canadian-focused, the statistics might be more clustered towards the middle because Canadians are famous for being polite. We do not accept people who openly discriminate someone, so we hide the fact that we give different treatment to others based on our prejudice towards someone. As an Asian girl, I had adopted the stereotype ideas, and somehow meet the typical Asians are good at math. However, I know clearly it is not because I am Chinese and math is magically easier for me, but it is because for the hours and worksheets that I do outside of school. I also go to classes to get an earlier start on topics before the materials are taught at school. With these combinations, I have formed the image that I am great at math and satisfied the bias idea people have for Asian children being good at math. Human beings tend to label a person based on skin color or race in society because it makes our life easier, for they are lazy to spend the time to talk to that person and get to know him or her …show more content…
There is a various correlation to how a person’s bias built such as their environment factor contribute the most, and a person’s personal experience and favoritism built on to their prejudgment among racial groups. Although the result of the test did not surprise me in any way, I have learned that first impression is very important because as I am walking on the street I represent my race. How I present myself might affect how others see my biological culture, so I should not give prejudgment to any racial group. No one is perfect, so how could people expect a racial group to have only good