Stereotyping In Soccer

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Do you think we could end stereotyping one day? What would I think, I would think that stereotyping will not end because based on t.v or your friends all we do is stereotype. Like for example stereotyping for race this is one of the most known. We discriminate people like if they are bad, we are as equal as them. Maybe there are some ways to end stereotyping but no one has started to do anything.

It seems to me that stereotyping is seen and heard through the whole world. Everyone is discriminated by how they look or by their race. When I was about like 6 year old I started playing soccer, so every time we played soccer at p.e why was it always that the mexicans get picked first and the Whites and Blacks at the end? So then I started thinking why always mexicans first so then i started researching and the most racist things ever. I saw on the internet that mexicans are only good at soccer because they only run from the police and jump the border. I knew why we were always the first ones picked now I know why?

From my point of view with these stereotypes of race. I feel like if we are just put in category just because of our race so if you play soccer your mexican or if you play basketball you're black. I feel bad because now you see everyone in there groups blacks with blacks and
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Like Shankar Vedantam states that self-fulfilling stereotyping could be hurtful and it is true. Well I was different when that kid told me that i was going to do bad on my test. I studied my butt off and when it was test day the test was so easy for me. I actually did better than him on the test and made him shut up. In sports to they said mexicans were bad at tennis or at baseball and some mexicans tried hard so they wouldn’t discriminate i started playing tennis and proved some people wrong same for baseball. If you believe in yourself you will go far and if you don't then you will do the

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