Why Are People Stereotyping Others?

Why Do People Stereotype Others? Stereotyping has been used nearly everyday and everywhere. It has been used at school, with friends, family, at home and anywhere you could think of, even at work environments. As a person have you ever thought what makes people want to stereotype another; is it the satisfaction of possible mentally hurting another or their feelings? Everyone has a different reason why they do it, but it doesn't mean that it's right and each person has their on way of reacting to it. If you are the one getting stereotyped it may seem like your being targeted by certain reasons like your ethnic, traits, name and etc. At the school of Dinuba High School interviews were held to see how students felt about stereotypes or if they got stereotyped. …show more content…
Most of the time students stereotyped others just to be athletes or an average person (teenagers). The research held by classmates shows that 43.6% are stereotyped athletes and 70.5% teenagers. People who seemed to be under the stereotype of athlete really didn't mind until others thought of them as lazy, dumb, troubled and etc. Another way students were stereotyped were by their race or gender of being hispanic, white, asian, african american, male or female. The common race’s people were portrayed as were hispanic or white. In the data it is presented to be that 71.8% were thought to be hispanic and 14.1% white. 51.1% were female the other 48.7% were