Muslim Stereotypes Research Paper

Stereotypes :( harmful) for our society There are different kinds of people living around us. Not all of them stereotype others, but some of them do. May be I too stereotype at times. We are not born with a stereotypical mind. Our society and situation teach us stereotypes. Robert Heilbroner also writes in his essay about stereotyping people. Often stereotypical behavior harms Muslim people’s feelings. Also because of stereotypes black people are judged wrongly by their color, and females don’t get better jobs because of stereotyping. All of these stereotypical behaviors not only harm people’s feelings but also harm our society. First of all, in our society stereotypical behavior towards Muslims often creates racial profiling
In Robert Heilbroner’s essay he writes as Walter Lippmann has said, “For the most part, we do not first see and then define; we define first, and then we see.” This quote is true for Muslims, because some Americans without seeing Muslim people take wrong decisions about them. They don’t even think that Muslim people can do something good. In that case, there mind is close because of stereotype cast. However, this kind of thinking hurts Muslim people’s feelings. I am a Muslim. I have one bitter experience from the day I came to the United States. After I first came, I had to do some paperwork for my immigration. I was totally unaware of stereotyping. An American man was working on my immigration. When he saw my last name is Islam he started whispering with his co-workers. Suddenly I heard them talking about terrorists, but I didn’t understand what they were talking about. At the airport, paper work for immigrations usually takes more than one hour, but they held me for almost twenty four hours. I was waiting there without any reason. After finished my immigration, when I asked them why they held me for a day. They gave me a silly answer. They told me that my last name matched with a terrorist’s name, so they had to verify my passport