Martina Navratilova once said, “Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people” (Navratilova). Stereotypes can be encountered everywhere, and every person is guilty of doing it. Stereotypes can lead to people thinking and acting differently, this is often done without realization. Stereotyping can be found everywhere, it can be found in books, movies, and the places people go.
Stereotypes can generally be defined as fixed images or a set of characteristics that a person might attach to a certain group of people or things, and they impact society in many ways (Stereotypes). For example, in an interview with Guy Raz from NPR, Jamila Lyiscott says that “And so when someone calls me articulate, it's not so much that they've never heard someone put together some words very well. It's that coming from my body, coming from my skin, coming from me, it's suddenly …show more content…
Armand later marries Desiree saying he doesn’t care about her ethnicity, but when they have a child it turns out to be biracial. Armand starts to treat Desiree terribly and is angry towards her because he thinks she is African-American. However, he later finds out that he himself is African- American. Armand says, “He though Almighty God had dealt cruelly and unjustly with him; and felt, somehow, that he was paying Him back in kind when he stabbed thus into his wife’s soul. Moreover he no longer loved her, because of the unconscious injury she had brought upon his home and his name” (Chopin). This evidence from “Desiree’s Baby,” supports the idea of stereotypes because Armand stops loving his wife and changes his opinion of her because he thinks she is of a different race. Armand is judging his wife based on what he believes is a “unconscious injury she had brought upon his home and his name”(Chopin). In today’s society, characteristics such as religion, gender, race, etc. can change the way somebody is
Stereotypes can generally be defined as fixed images or a set of characteristics that a person might attach to a certain group of people or things, and they impact society in many ways (Stereotypes). For example, in an interview with Guy Raz from NPR, Jamila Lyiscott says that “And so when someone calls me articulate, it's not so much that they've never heard someone put together some words very well. It's that coming from my body, coming from my skin, coming from me, it's suddenly …show more content…
Armand later marries Desiree saying he doesn’t care about her ethnicity, but when they have a child it turns out to be biracial. Armand starts to treat Desiree terribly and is angry towards her because he thinks she is African-American. However, he later finds out that he himself is African- American. Armand says, “He though Almighty God had dealt cruelly and unjustly with him; and felt, somehow, that he was paying Him back in kind when he stabbed thus into his wife’s soul. Moreover he no longer loved her, because of the unconscious injury she had brought upon his home and his name” (Chopin). This evidence from “Desiree’s Baby,” supports the idea of stereotypes because Armand stops loving his wife and changes his opinion of her because he thinks she is of a different race. Armand is judging his wife based on what he believes is a “unconscious injury she had brought upon his home and his name”(Chopin). In today’s society, characteristics such as religion, gender, race, etc. can change the way somebody is