Stereotype. /ster-ee-uh-tahyp/, Noun. A belief or category used to describe a particular type of person or group. These types of beliefs are generalizations. While many people believe them, they can be very detrimental to the people they are about. An example of a negative stereotype in today’s society involves the Muslim religion. Due to 9/11, a terrorist attack in New York City, people of the Muslim religion are discriminated and hated on because the terrorists were of the same religion. There are an estimated 3.3 million Muslims in America, and thousands of them are being discriminated against every day. Many people think that they will terrorize America because they are Muslim, so they treat them very poorly. Though, the list goes on. Many
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Aibileen, a maid working in Jackson, Mississippi, is colored. Being colored in the south around the 1960s can be difficult. Segregation was a big part of the south, and it was difficult for people of color to live an equal life with the whites. “Franny bend her head down, say, ‘You hear what happen to Louvenia Brown’s grandson this morning?’ ‘Robert?’ I say. ‘Who do the mowing?’ ‘Use the white bathroom at Pinchman Lawn and Garden. Say they wasn’t a sign up saying so, Two white mens chased him and beat him with a tire iron.’ Oh no. Not Robert. ‘He...is he…?’ Franny shake her head. ‘They don’t know. He up at the hospital. I heard he blind’” (Stockett 117). Louvenia’s, Aibileen’s colored friend, son was beaten so badly by white men. Due to negative stereotypes against blacks, her son’s life was almost taken. The whites around this time period believed that people of color carried diseases and it was a health hazard to share the same bathroom as them. Miss. Hilly, a white female, does not believe that colored people are equal to whites. She believes that the races should be separated, for safety. “‘All these houses they’re building without maid’s quarters? It’s just plain dangerous. Everybody knows they carry different kinds of diseases than we do’” (Stockett 10). Miss. Hilly is explaining to Miss. Leefolt that she needs a separate bathroom for her colored maid. She believes that a white can get sick from diseases spread by a colored person’s urine. Miss. Skeeter, a friend of Miss. Hilly, on the other hand, does not believe in the segregation between the colored and the whites. Since she is an aspiring writer, she wants to write a book from a colored point of view. Showing what they go through on a day-to-day basis. She asks some of her friend’s maids if they would like to help out. “‘You know what’ll happen if people catch us? Forget the time I accidentally use the wrong changing
Aibileen, a maid working in Jackson, Mississippi, is colored. Being colored in the south around the 1960s can be difficult. Segregation was a big part of the south, and it was difficult for people of color to live an equal life with the whites. “Franny bend her head down, say, ‘You hear what happen to Louvenia Brown’s grandson this morning?’ ‘Robert?’ I say. ‘Who do the mowing?’ ‘Use the white bathroom at Pinchman Lawn and Garden. Say they wasn’t a sign up saying so, Two white mens chased him and beat him with a tire iron.’ Oh no. Not Robert. ‘He...is he…?’ Franny shake her head. ‘They don’t know. He up at the hospital. I heard he blind’” (Stockett 117). Louvenia’s, Aibileen’s colored friend, son was beaten so badly by white men. Due to negative stereotypes against blacks, her son’s life was almost taken. The whites around this time period believed that people of color carried diseases and it was a health hazard to share the same bathroom as them. Miss. Hilly, a white female, does not believe that colored people are equal to whites. She believes that the races should be separated, for safety. “‘All these houses they’re building without maid’s quarters? It’s just plain dangerous. Everybody knows they carry different kinds of diseases than we do’” (Stockett 10). Miss. Hilly is explaining to Miss. Leefolt that she needs a separate bathroom for her colored maid. She believes that a white can get sick from diseases spread by a colored person’s urine. Miss. Skeeter, a friend of Miss. Hilly, on the other hand, does not believe in the segregation between the colored and the whites. Since she is an aspiring writer, she wants to write a book from a colored point of view. Showing what they go through on a day-to-day basis. She asks some of her friend’s maids if they would like to help out. “‘You know what’ll happen if people catch us? Forget the time I accidentally use the wrong changing