Who are you? Who are you to others? We live in the 21st century, when women can be the head of a company, when there are male nurses, and yet still as people we can’t stop labeling other people. These days positive and negative stereotypes have an impact on people, both young and old, personally and academically. Even when you don’t notice it it’s happening to you, you are being impacted by stereotypes. And you might just have changed somebody’s life because of it, without trying or noticing. How do you think you would or you do respond to stereotypes? Do you shove it off or do you react to them? Author of, “How a Self-Fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance,” Shankar Vedantam writes about, what psychologists named, stereotype threat.
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I mean really think about it, you can label people all you want based on what they look like or based upon their names, but these days most people are mixed, and the “visuals” aren’t reliable neither are their names. Sometimes mama and papa can come from totally different places, there is no point in stating a stereotype in situations like those. Take for example our next author, Dilara Hafiz. Author of, “The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook” In the excerpt “What’s in a (Muslim) Name?” Hafiz admits to having a “bad habit”, a habit of identifying people’s origins based upon their names, which in her family was a completely harmless game. But what do you think about this labeling game? In the article Hafiz writes, “Although it may seem harmless to assume someone’s religion based upon their name, it is becoming apparent that this type of judgement is unnecessary and irrelevant.” Hafiz herself realized that judging is becoming irrelevant. In addition, she states in paragraph 8, “Being Jewish, Christian, or Muslim is a state of mind, not a collection of physical attributes.” Like I said there will be a point in time when we won’t be able to identify someone based on looks because race, religion, and language are much deeper than what is on the outside. I used to live in Seattle, Washington where there is so much ethnic diversity, and sometimes who or what you were defined you academically. Despite the fact …show more content…
Samara Green author of, “Fairy Tales and Gender Stereotypes” states, “Both men and women have a tendency to make assumptions that women belong in specific types of jobs.” In the article she also writes about an experiment that took place and how the results showed that people tend to think women are soft, while they think men are strong and loud. Possibly because we grew up watching movies about vulnerable women who needed a man to succeed in life. In the article, “How a Self-Fulling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance” Shankar Vedantam writes about a study where researchers, Gregory Walton and Steven Spencer explored the question, “What does stereotype threat tell you if you are a college admissions officer debating between a man and a woman who both have an SAT score of 1200?” On the topic of minorities and stereotypes Vedantam writes, “Colleges have long known, however, that women and minorities typically underperform relative to their SAT scores… In pure meritocracy, the college admissions officer ought to pick the man, since his score predicts he will do better in college than a women with the same score.” “Walton and Spencer found that when schools and colleges go out of their way to ameliorate stereotype threats, the performance of women and minorities soars-it’s as if these students are athletes who have been running against a headwind.” Walton and Spencer found out that without that obstacle minorities and women didn't just do as good as
I mean really think about it, you can label people all you want based on what they look like or based upon their names, but these days most people are mixed, and the “visuals” aren’t reliable neither are their names. Sometimes mama and papa can come from totally different places, there is no point in stating a stereotype in situations like those. Take for example our next author, Dilara Hafiz. Author of, “The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook” In the excerpt “What’s in a (Muslim) Name?” Hafiz admits to having a “bad habit”, a habit of identifying people’s origins based upon their names, which in her family was a completely harmless game. But what do you think about this labeling game? In the article Hafiz writes, “Although it may seem harmless to assume someone’s religion based upon their name, it is becoming apparent that this type of judgement is unnecessary and irrelevant.” Hafiz herself realized that judging is becoming irrelevant. In addition, she states in paragraph 8, “Being Jewish, Christian, or Muslim is a state of mind, not a collection of physical attributes.” Like I said there will be a point in time when we won’t be able to identify someone based on looks because race, religion, and language are much deeper than what is on the outside. I used to live in Seattle, Washington where there is so much ethnic diversity, and sometimes who or what you were defined you academically. Despite the fact …show more content…
Samara Green author of, “Fairy Tales and Gender Stereotypes” states, “Both men and women have a tendency to make assumptions that women belong in specific types of jobs.” In the article she also writes about an experiment that took place and how the results showed that people tend to think women are soft, while they think men are strong and loud. Possibly because we grew up watching movies about vulnerable women who needed a man to succeed in life. In the article, “How a Self-Fulling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance” Shankar Vedantam writes about a study where researchers, Gregory Walton and Steven Spencer explored the question, “What does stereotype threat tell you if you are a college admissions officer debating between a man and a woman who both have an SAT score of 1200?” On the topic of minorities and stereotypes Vedantam writes, “Colleges have long known, however, that women and minorities typically underperform relative to their SAT scores… In pure meritocracy, the college admissions officer ought to pick the man, since his score predicts he will do better in college than a women with the same score.” “Walton and Spencer found that when schools and colleges go out of their way to ameliorate stereotype threats, the performance of women and minorities soars-it’s as if these students are athletes who have been running against a headwind.” Walton and Spencer found out that without that obstacle minorities and women didn't just do as good as