Throughout the world, people have created stereotypes against certain groups and people that may seem or look different. Every year in history classes, we studied race and discrimination and talked about how serious the topic was. Agreeing that it was wrong, none of us could wrap our heads around the fact that people still chose to discriminate and create stereotypes against people of different races. So why do people do it? Is it because they would rather feel good about themselves than have people dislike them? There is no practical reason for people to create stereotypes, but all of us do it. Even when you don’t realize it you may be naming a stereotype. A stereotype is any thought widely adopted about specific types of individuals or certain
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Although stereotypes are not the main idea of this story, we are able to see them through the view of gender and how the party manipulates people. It is said that the party finds women mentally weaker than the men in the society, so by this reasoning, they brainwash them at an early age to always obey the party and follow the laws that are set for them. “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ rna the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’” (1.3.18). On a deeper level, this quote is referring to the manipulation of the women in the society to think only how the Party wants them to and not on their own.The overall gender stereotype here is one against women in general, leading society to believe that they are incapable of doing things on their own, or worse, without a man helping them. Now after reading this book, I can see where older generations got the idea that men are the ones that need to work while women stay home and tend to the house and children. Regardless, we can come to the conclusion that stereotypes, no matter what they are, can affect different groups of people in many different
Although stereotypes are not the main idea of this story, we are able to see them through the view of gender and how the party manipulates people. It is said that the party finds women mentally weaker than the men in the society, so by this reasoning, they brainwash them at an early age to always obey the party and follow the laws that are set for them. “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ rna the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’” (1.3.18). On a deeper level, this quote is referring to the manipulation of the women in the society to think only how the Party wants them to and not on their own.The overall gender stereotype here is one against women in general, leading society to believe that they are incapable of doing things on their own, or worse, without a man helping them. Now after reading this book, I can see where older generations got the idea that men are the ones that need to work while women stay home and tend to the house and children. Regardless, we can come to the conclusion that stereotypes, no matter what they are, can affect different groups of people in many different