Why People Use Stereotypes

of reinforcing those that challenge the stereotype. For example, you might tell your daughter, ‘I love to see you in the sandbox’ or ‘Wearing pants today was a good idea -- it'll be so much easier to climb the monkey bars.’ A father may tell a son in tears, ‘Sometimes I feel like crying too.” Stopping children from using stereotypes a labels will not only let the live a happy life, they won't have the negative effects of stereotypes directed at them, but it will also improve the general public atmosphere. There will be less animosity between strangers, and children will play with each other without any disorientation between, gender, race, or disability. I do believe I have stated it many times but as a society in general we all to casually use stereotyping. To change our habits of using stereotypes first we need to acknowledge that it is wrong that we use them in the first place and see …show more content…
Often news channels will use stereotypes and, naively, a lot of people truly believe this is an impossibility,they think that a news station must adhere to the absolute truth which is not always the complete case, and these viewers will begin to change their own opinions on what the newscasters tell them because they don’t think it could be a lie. Fox news for example has had a history of racial and sexual insensitivity and according to a study, “Looking at broad television news viewership, Fox news audiences are again more likely to agree that Latinos are on welfare (56%), take jobs from Americans (43%) and have too many children (42%) compared to ABC, NBC, CBS and MSNBC audiences.” This clearly shows the effect of the information Fox's crew give on the public this study will also explain that in the case if believing that Latino people are stealing American's’ job Fox news’ audience is over 15% of the other media