What is Stereotypes?
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a perception of a person or thing that applies those attributes most commonly associated with the group that such person or thing belongs to, regardless of whether that perception is true. This word has gained a negative connotation and is more commonly associated with
Stereotypes are often good and helpful things, but discrimination on the basis of prejudice/stereotypes often has negative effects.
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the belief that a certain person has to belong a group that has similar attributes
Black/African American/
Mexican- illegal, janitors, does manual labor for low prices, delivers pizza
Chinese/Japanese/Korean- delivers Chinese food, smart in math and science, can't speak English, wannabe rappers
White- spoiled, rockers, racist, wannabe black, kiss asses, bossy, punk rocker, pussy ass, afraid of a
Arab/Iraqi/????Irani???/Indian- wears turbans, owns convenience stores, smelly, angry, terrorist
1.White lady watches black guy closely because she thinks he'll jack her car.
2. "Hey, Peter. Call immagration. The guy who mows the Jones' lawn is back"- white woman about Mexican immigrant.
3."Hey, Chang! Where's my por-fry-rye!"- white guy to chinese delivery man.
4. "Look at dat wigga tryna floss dem rhinestones, dawg!"-black guy to friend.
5."I bet that guy in the turban is gonna bomb his convenience store."- white guy stereotypes Iraqi at gas station.
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An automatic overgeneralization of certain labels, regardless of accuracy; Over-abused
Cheerleaders: Vain,
Emos: Attention-seeking, depressed, angsty teens (Fakes, wannabes, attention-seekers=the majority of emo population these days); Wannabe
Celebrities: Over-paid actors and musicians just waiting to be judged and showered with overrated popularity; "
Examples of stereotypes (regardless of accuracy):
"All cheerleaders are skinny, skanky, and anorexic."
"Why don't all you stupid emos just bleed to death, you depressed attention-seeking whores?" (Someone actually said this to me)
"OMFG, like, MILEY CYRUS!!! ROBERT PATTISON!!"
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4.
What everyone does no matter whether they think they do or not
Stereotypes, in my opinion, are completely pointless. They're a part of modern society today, and basically it tries to put everyone into one group or another.
Many people try to 'be' a certain stereotype just because they think it makes them cool to whoever else. Generally, I believe if people do this, and admit to being whatever stereotype, then they are not that stereotype as they're trying to be something they're not.
Many people are discriminated for the way they are stereotyped, and stereotyping has become a sort of discrimination in itself.
Just try to be who you are, not what people want you to be or what you think you want to be. Be who you really are. Stereotyping gets rid of individualism and makes everyone similar, which to be honest, is pretty boring
Too many people are not given a chance because of whatever way they act, dress, the music they listen to or whatever else. Give them a chance to find what they're really like and you might find you actually like them :)
The most common stereotypes for people are
There is also something called 'ethnic stereotyping' which is like things such as all Asians are really smart, all Jewish people are greedy, all Russian people are called Boris, all British people are either posh or talk live 1800 people =/ etc etc
Kid 1: Lets go beat up that kid cos he looks different
Kid 2: Yeah! He's not like us
Kid 3: He's just himself, not trying to be anyone else, you're just treating him different because of his stereotype, he doesn't do it to you, so you shouldn't to him :)
Kids 1&2: .....Get him too! He's explaining things that we should know but don't as we all go by these stupid stereotypes just because everyone else does
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Whether its media or people who categorise and label others to make themselves feel superior.
examples of stereotypes include:
All muslims are terrorists and want to kill people in suicide bombings. (what a loada crap)
All chinese people are very clever
Americans are all obese
All emo people do is sit down and think about how the world sucks and cut themselves and end up killing themselves.
Black people are deadly gangsters
People who listen to rap are gang members
People who listen to rock/punk/etc are emo/gothic and that R'n'B,hiphop and shit like that is the 'right' music to listen to.
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An automatic overgeneralization of certain labels, regardless of accuracy; over-abused
Emos: Attention-seeking
Celebrities: Over-paid actors and musicians just waiting to be judged and showered with overrated popularity; "
Examples of stereotypes (regardless of accuracy):
"All cheerleaders are skinny, skanky, and anorexic"
"Why don't all you stupid emos just bleed to death, you depressed attention-seeking whores?" (someone actually said that to me)
"OMFG, like, Miley Cyrus!!!"
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A type of overgeneralization towards any group of peoples or places. (e.g. americans = arrogant)
Most stereotypes are used on ethnicities and are usually negative, however many contain a bit of truth in them.
The most common stereotypes are (and my rating in accuracy 5=most accurate, 1=least accurate):
Black - thugs, gangsters, criminals, rappers, carries alot of jewelry, speaks in ebonics (thug language), armed (e.g. with a gat)
Accuracy = 3.5
White - spoiled, arrogant, useless, racists, rockers
Accuracy = 2.5
Asian - rich, skinny or chubby, smart in math and sciences, stupid in english and humanities, drives souped up cars (e.g. Honda), skinny eyes, short, wannabes, nerdy
Accuracy = 3
Indian - Muslim (therefore terrorists, suicide bombers), smelly, steals stuff, massive accent, keeners
Accuracy = 2.5
Jewish (white but somehow differs from other whites) - greedy, cheap, huge noses, backstabbers, rich
Accuracy = 3.5
An example of how stereotypes are used every day:
Hey look, there's a Muslim woman in a cloak. She must be carrying a bomb.
-Mark (a friend of mine)
The damn jew stole ripped me off! What we need is another holocaust.
-Mark (yes, hes a racist)
