Stereotyping Stereotypes In Society

Imagine a world where everyone judged you for who you are, how you look, and how you act. It is not something you need to imagine because it is how the world is today, you get judged for everything you do. That is called stereotyping, and judging people for who they are should not be allowed. What if everyone chose to pick you out of everyone in the world and started picking out these flaws you cannot control, and then being placed in a category that you cannot chose and being left in that category for the rest of your life. Does that feeling make you feel as if you are not good enough to be who you are? It does, does it not, and that’s how people feel every day. But it does not have to be like that, we can make a change, we do not have to stereotype everyone in the world. Stereotyping is wrong, and people should not stereotype other people, stereotyping is almost as if you are judging yourself.

Stereotyping is not just in the United States, it happens in all cultures. But it is known that whites use stereotypes more than other races. Stereotyping is a …show more content…
Not everyone who looks like a stereotype is. He also said stereotypes are expectations we can use to our advantage in any number of ways, which can be true but it is wrong to put them in these categories if you do not know them for yourself. In story books where stereotypes are commonly used, Orson Scott Card said you could “save valuable time explaining the stereotype in a story that might otherwise need to be filled with descriptions and explanations. Therefore saying that since you do not spend the extra time describing who they are and you just place them in a category, the “story” which could be viewed as life is now unbalanced and no body is seen as who they are only by what you want to see them as because you do not want to spend “valuable time” getting to know the person you