Stereotyping is a form of pre judgment that is used every day in conversations and social media. There are many groups of people that are being stereotyped in society today. Whether or not you are the one being stereotyped or you are doing the stereotyping, in the end it hurts people 's feelings and bring down self-esteems. Stereotypes create a misunderstanding of how people are and how they live in other cultures, religions, or countries. This misconception could cause problems such as discrimination. We live in a very diverse society of many different cultures and believes. Therefore, based on our culture is easy for one to stereotype observations and surroundings. For example, as a Hispanic, my culture is referred as a low life and/or immigrants.
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Also, in my community, I am a minority within minority. Walking around the streets, the people who live within acted as our ethnic group delivering the wrong impression. Why? Not sure, but I believed is for the individual own personal reason. Some of them may be or are part of the troublemakers, the loud ones, the uneducated ones, the ones wearing clothes a few sizes smaller/bigger, and for that reason we all get labeled as equal. Really? But that how most of the community acted, so why is that my ethnicity is the one targeted and blamed for this behavior! Reasons like this is what make my culture less attractive. Stereotypes don’t take under consideration that my generation could be the one who change the image of …show more content…
It is important to learn from each other to understand and avoid stereotypes that could be harmful. If we want new generations to be successful we need to do something to change it. We as the new generation should do something to avoid this problem. We can start changing our perception of stereotypes. We should be aware that all stereotypes are bad regardless if they are good or bad because it causes prejudgment. We should learn to respect and understand other cultures, religions, and countries. This could avoid many problems such as discrimination. And more importantly we should teach newer generations to respect each other regardless of their differences. With all of this we can change our perception of the stereotypes that are deeply rooted in our society and make of this a better
Also, in my community, I am a minority within minority. Walking around the streets, the people who live within acted as our ethnic group delivering the wrong impression. Why? Not sure, but I believed is for the individual own personal reason. Some of them may be or are part of the troublemakers, the loud ones, the uneducated ones, the ones wearing clothes a few sizes smaller/bigger, and for that reason we all get labeled as equal. Really? But that how most of the community acted, so why is that my ethnicity is the one targeted and blamed for this behavior! Reasons like this is what make my culture less attractive. Stereotypes don’t take under consideration that my generation could be the one who change the image of …show more content…
It is important to learn from each other to understand and avoid stereotypes that could be harmful. If we want new generations to be successful we need to do something to change it. We as the new generation should do something to avoid this problem. We can start changing our perception of stereotypes. We should be aware that all stereotypes are bad regardless if they are good or bad because it causes prejudgment. We should learn to respect and understand other cultures, religions, and countries. This could avoid many problems such as discrimination. And more importantly we should teach newer generations to respect each other regardless of their differences. With all of this we can change our perception of the stereotypes that are deeply rooted in our society and make of this a better