Stereotypes In Stella Young And Michael T. Kaufman

Stereotypes have long been with us; it’s the way we think, it goes back deep into history, its found in every culture, and its how we live life everyday. When you start going beyond the reason that they’re considered who they are, and start saying everyone like them in that way, also acts like them, in other ways; it’s wrong. We not only classify, but relate people to a social class by the way they look, not only does this create assumptions about people it can also lead to things like hostility, ignorance, and hatred, even if it is done subconsciously, many people still act on it and pick it up at a young age. There are two examples that I think well describes stereotyping. Stella Young in her podcast I’m not your inspiration, thank you …show more content…
Kaufman discuss stereotypes, but Young focuses on disabilities and Kaufman focuses on prejudice. Both have their similarities and differences. Stella Young comes from a normal family, lives a normal life, and gets praised for her disability. Her sole purpose is to “live in a world where disability is not the exception, but the norm.” She wants to “live in a world where we don’t have such low expectations of disabled people that gets congratulated just for getting out of bed.” And she wants to “live in a world where we value genuine achievement. Young just like Kaufman talks about stereotypes, both Young and Kaufman realize that people shouldn’t make assumptions on how people look or act, they both believe that stereotyping whether it be good or bad isn’t helpful. To Young being called “inspirational” may mean an insult to her, and the stereotype Kaufman made towards Hector could have been hurtful. Young focuses more on disabilities, and from her aspect, people with disabilities are superhuman in which they triumph over everything they do. They have patience and courage. Kaufman’s aspect of stereotypes is different. He talks about prejudice and how we view people. To Kaufman people create assumptions about people quicker than they can think. Kaufman follows the stereotype surrounding race, in this case Puerto Ricans. He assumes that since Hector is a Puerto Rican he works on the docs. Even though both Kaufman and Young talk about stereotypes they both have other differences. Young all her life was praised for being disabled, the stereotype surrounding young being disabled was more good than bad. Kaufman’s stereotype however was different than that of Young’s. Kaufman made negative assumptions toward