Racial And Racial Stereotypes

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Biological sex is indisputably clear; humans are either male or female. However, does it necessarily follow that social and cultural gender must be male or female? In the United States, I have experienced institutionalized stereotyping of how people identify their gender, known as gender identity. More specifically, many forms of identification require that individuals describe themselves as either male or female. While justified in medical circumstances, these social controls contribute to the institutionalized discrimination of non-binary individuals, or individuals who do not have a gender identity of male or female. In this essay, the reader will understand the example of gender, racial or ethnic stereotyping in our day to
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Any time you grouping races or individuals together and make a judgment about them without knowing them; this is an example of a stereotype. Racial remarks, sexual remarks, and gender remarks are the biggest stereotypes. And one of the more common stereotype examples is stereotypes surrounding race. For example, saying that all Blacks are good at sports is a stereotype, because it’s grouping the race together to indicate that everyone of that race is a good athlete. There are also some common stereotypes of men and women, which has to do with gender, such as: Men are strong and do all the work. Men are the "backbone." Women aren't as smart as a man. Women can’t do as good of a job as a man. Girls are not good at sports. Guys are messy and unclean. Men who spend too much time on the computer or read are …show more content…
For discrimination to be eliminated it starts with the disassembling of barriers and ensuring equality access to education, training as well as the will and the ability to own and use resources such as credit and land. It continues with fixing conditions for setting up and running enterprises of all types and sizes, and the policies and practices related to hiring, assignment of tasks, working conditions, pay, benefits, promotions, lay-offs and termination of employment. Merit and the ability to do a job, not irrelevant characteristics, should be the guide (Elimination of Discrimination, n, d). In conclusion, the issue of gender, race or ethnics stereotyping will continue to exist, it will be eliminated in our society if only we duly take the necessary step to prevent it. Moreover, the issue of being born as male or female, black or white and individual culture cannot be change because that’s how the world was created by God from the onset, in addition to that, the barrier of gender, race and ethnic stereotyping most be broken and every human being should be view as equal regardless of gender and

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