Essay On Stereotypes

Stereotypes. Stereotypes play a major and huge role today in society negatively and positively. Stereotypes can form truthful and untruthful results that can mentally, emotionally and physically destroy a person, race or culture which we see today. Stereotype is a fixed over generalized belief about a particular group or class of people (Meclod). I chose to write on the topic stereotype because in society today we as humans stereotype one another all the time and do not realize it. Research have found that stereotype exist of different races, cultures, or ethic groups (Meclod). Today our world is so based off what the next person thinks and what they will say and do if something is not done a certain way and it bothers me. Don’t judge a book by its cover, no one should be judge for
Stereotypes are formed by different people, different races/ cultures for different reasoning. So I cut up different pictures, different letter and shape sizes to make an outcome of a “huge picture”. Defining “huge picture”, I am relating that to at the end of the day we are all one in some kind of way. We may be different in different areas but we are so alike in others even if its shown more in one area than the next. So my visual argument consists of different word phrases, letters, pictures, and colors to hopefully catch my audience attention. Throughout this assignment I learned that there are a lot of stereotypes and there are many reasons why people stereotype but have yet to find a clear direct answer on why people do it. The closes I have gotten to an answer was people stereotype type because they go off what they think they know, they heard or what they have seen. Not what they took the time to find out from that race or individual. By stereotyping we infer that a person has a whole range of characteristics and abilities that we assume all members of that group have