In my essay, I will be elaborating stereotypes of the book mindwise by Nicholas Epley and the article The Myth of Latin Woman . This two stories talks about how the author sees stereotype in their life or point of view. Stereotype Stereotypes is one of the biggest problems in the world for people because they get categorized based on gender, religion , race, education, and more things that’s how the author Nicholas Epley see it in his story and as well in my point of view. Some people get selected based on stereotype and it makes them feel different about themselves. In my personal experience stereotype is one of the main problem in my life because one time I was categorized on how short I was from others students that happen when I was in
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In my personal life, when I was in middle school there was different groups there where the spy vs the loud but were different from each other and everyone had their own place to hang around with their friends. Every people is different from others because some people make right decision in their life and others don’t but it make them different from others it's just that everyone thinks in a different. People uses stereotype by cauterizing the people in different groups on way they look, think , and behave. In the article “The Myth Of Latin Woman” , Judith Ortiz Cofer talks about her life in America as a Puerto Rican immigrant. She talks about how people stereotyped her how different American culture was different from Puerto Rican culture and about how she want to fit in, but couldn’t because of different culture and traditions. For example, “It quickly became obvious that to the puerto Rican girls “dressing up” meant wearing their mother’s ornate jewelry and clothing, more appropriate (qtd in Cofer page 443). It made her dress up in a different way that she was not used in American. Stereotype is used with her because she comes from a puerto rican culture instead of american culture that she wants fit in but she first has learn so many new things in life. She will have to learn different that that she is not used in
In my personal life, when I was in middle school there was different groups there where the spy vs the loud but were different from each other and everyone had their own place to hang around with their friends. Every people is different from others because some people make right decision in their life and others don’t but it make them different from others it's just that everyone thinks in a different. People uses stereotype by cauterizing the people in different groups on way they look, think , and behave. In the article “The Myth Of Latin Woman” , Judith Ortiz Cofer talks about her life in America as a Puerto Rican immigrant. She talks about how people stereotyped her how different American culture was different from Puerto Rican culture and about how she want to fit in, but couldn’t because of different culture and traditions. For example, “It quickly became obvious that to the puerto Rican girls “dressing up” meant wearing their mother’s ornate jewelry and clothing, more appropriate (qtd in Cofer page 443). It made her dress up in a different way that she was not used in American. Stereotype is used with her because she comes from a puerto rican culture instead of american culture that she wants fit in but she first has learn so many new things in life. She will have to learn different that that she is not used in