What Is Racial Stereotyping?

This group is engaging in various different types of negative behaviours such as stereotyping including racial stereotyping and gender discrimination. Racial Stereotyping and gender discrimination is connected to our value and beliefs system thus this affects our judgement of others. Student one who is both female and an Aboriginal Australian suffers from being discriminated because of her gender. Student two doesn’t want to work with student one because she is a female and doesn’t believe women should be at university. He also believes that women are inferior and doesn’t want women in his group. Gender discrimination can be defined as is any action that specifically denies opportunities, privileges, or rewards to a person because of gender …show more content…
Student three doesn’t want to student two in his group because he believes that everybody from student two’s country is lazy. Additionally, student three is also racially stereotyped but by student one. She believes that student three is from a country where terrorists are known to come from. Sometimes it is helpful for us to be able to categorise information, but if we apply this in general to people of different cultures it can become negative. In many ways racial stereotyping has become so ingrained that we do not realise we are engaging in discriminatory behaviour. Student one makes an assumption about a whole racial group by categorising all people from student three’s country as terrorists because terrorists have been known to come from his country. “Racial stereotypes are harmful because they ignore the full humanity and uniqueness of all people… people who are repeatedly labeled in negative ways will begin to develop feelings of inferiority”. Racial stereotypes can have harmful effects thus it is essential that people make a commitment in order to try to overcome racial stereotyping. Possible solutions to overcome racial stereotyping are by firstly, recognizing that it is in our human nature to hold racial stereotypes. Secondly, we should try to become aware of our beliefs and values and if we have a stereotype about a particular race we should try to base it on fact rather than stereotypes.