Stereotyping Essay

It may come as a surprise to you, but I love school. I love anything to do with school. I love homework and yes, I love tests. I also work really hard to make sure I get straight A’s. I push myself, as I should. In my free time, it’s great to just relax and watch videos on my phone. I started to watch a lot of those back to school videos. There was one about the people you will meet at school. And there was one person who was wearing glasses, braces, overalls, miss-matched clothes, and clown shoes. And the description said that they love school and get straight A’s. I love school, I get straight A’s, but I don’t look like that. And as I keep watching these videos the same character appears with the same description, they love school and get straight A’s. …show more content…
I felt hurt. I felt like this is what the world thinks of me, as a weirdo. Now, I will totally call myself weird in any means necessary, because it’s true. But when people I don’t even know all calling me weird, strange, different, it hurts. That’s called stereotyping. “Stereotyping means holding a general or fixed belief or notion about others without proof or validity.” I’m here today to talk about stereotyping. How to avoid stereotyping, how to know when you are stereotyping or being stereotyped, and how to ignore being stereotyped. I’d like to start off with a quote. “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.” We’ve all heard this quote from the Disney movie Bambi, or at least heard it as a kid from either your parents or teachers. So the first way that you can avoid stereotyping others, is to not say anything. If you have to think twice about if what you’re about to say will hurt someone’s feelings, don’t say it at all. Although this may resolve not stereotyping out loud, it’s even better to not stereotype