Stereotyping Essay Essays - Symbolic Interactionism, Labeling Theory

Anthony B. Garcia Professor Beope English 120 11 Oct. 2017 Stereotypes effective in different situations Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie, shares her story on Ted Talk in 2009, which she talks about "The Danger of a Single Story." She claims that telling the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice and warns that if the people hear only a single story about another person or thing, we risk a critical misunderstanding. "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story" (Adichie). There are more stereotypes than ever before such as black and white stereotypes, men and women stereotypes, and ethnic stereotypes. Many people assume that one thing done by a certain group and automatically think that every person belonging to that group does the same things. Her audience would be the people that was dealing with stereotyping. Each group is called by name, that doesn't really fit to everyone in that specific group. Therefor stereotypes affect people's social li fe, emotions, and how people interact with their environment. We all have experienced stereotyping before, when a person is giving some a label such as their sex, ethnic, and other facts. In the blog "Stereotyping and Prejudice Is Alive and Well in American Society", published in the website huffingtonpost.com, Bethany St. James explains how stereotypes can create another problem such as name calling and using labels. "All powerful, career driven women are single and lonely. All Latinos are here illegally. All Muslims are terrorists. All White people are racist All African Americans are on welfare. All New Yorkers are Rude" CITATION Jam12 \l 1033 (James). Stereotypes can be effective in different situations. Most of these things are currently happening right now, mostly towards your ethnic. Ethnic is a big problem which comes leads to stereotypes, which causes hurt that person. Stereotyping has created a distortion of how every individual should be. There has been many generation that has been dealing with stereotyping with has affected many individuals. For example, at an early age we learn to not judge and prejudge about other people around us. Therefore, people do not see the causes of stereotyping which effects in a negative way. Stereotyping can sometime lead to killing someone dealing with that issue. When dealing with negative can cause health problems and hurting that person, depending on the situation. Rick Nauert examples, in his article "Long-term Effects of Stereotyping" how people can be affected by stereotypes, which can affect their environment. Base on his researcher and studies on the University of Toronto, finds out that the students are effect in a negative way. This negative affect causes the persons emotions from getting hurt from the stereotypes. Michael Inzlicht states that, "People are more likely to be aggressive after they've fa ced prejudice in a given situation. They are more likely to exhibit a lack of self-control. They have trouble making good, rational decisions. And they are more likely to over-indulge on unhealthy foods" CITATION Nau10 \l 1033 (Nauert). From a student's point of view shows that negative stereotypes are affected by individuals. Negative effects in individuals are not only bad stereotypes. Also, unfamiliar problems can be harmful that are caused by good stereotypes. In the article "Why stereotypes are bad even when they're good", Oliver Burkeman claims how sexism and racism is creates by good stereotypes. Depending on the situation that individual person can be harm from that situation. "When asked to estimate the probability that a hypothetical series of people with typically African-American names might commit a crime, people exposed to the positive stereotype rated that possibility as higher than did those exposed to a negative one. The positive stereotype ("good at athletics") apparently led to stronger negative beliefs about black people than the negative one ("prone to violence")" CITATION Bur12 \l 1033 (Burkeman). It is important to learn from each other to understand and avoid stereotypes that could be harmful from good or bad stereotyping. I personal dislike stereotyping, but there are many ways to avoid this type of problem. Stereotyping are bad regardless if they are good. We can teach the new generations to respect each