Four Styles Of Conflict Resolution Essay

Have you ever had some to judge you before they even knew you? When people think of you a certain way before you even open your mouth to speak. Have you ever have you ever done someone that to someone? You may have done it without even knowing it. Every time you think of someone from a certain group to have a certain characteristic, that a stereotype. That person may not have those qualities you automatically associate with their group. For instance, just because a person looks to be of Asian descent doesn’t mean you have to come from China or work at a nail shop. Those are stereotypes, you are categorizing that person. When you do that you are also being prejudice. You are pre-judging that person that looks to be of Asian descent because of how they look or what you may think of their race, gender, belief, class, physical appearance, age or religion. A person cannot fit into a stereotype people commonly associate with them, they simply can’t because each person is unique and may not have all or even any of the …show more content…
Some styles result in a lot of progress and building relationships and others result in very little. The most effective type of conflict resolution is compromising and the least effective is forcing. But the situation would not even be a conflict if the members of my family did not have different views. That’s fine, but what isn’t is when members of my family pre-judge us and think that when they come around us they will get the you are a horrible sinner and you will go to hell speech which is something that we would not force upon them like that. That is also one of the things we went over in class was that with conflicts you disagree with the ideas and behavior, not the people. Writing this essay has made me notice the things that go on in my life and how it relates to the things I’ve been going over in