Stereotypes Are Good At Math

There’s is a stereotype (pg309) I have been experiencing for most of my life- “ Asians are good at math.” Whenever I do good on a test for math, people would already have an expectation that I would do good on the math test, so, they common things like “ Oh, of course she did good, she’s asian, she’s suppose to be good.” This kind of prejudice from people makes me feel pressured, because I feel like people are expecting me to do good, I start to put myself that way (conformity). Sometimes even myself would fall into this stereotype, one time there was someone who got over one hundred percent on the math test, immediately I thought it was this asian guy in my class. This false assumption is the ultimate attribution error (314) because I was making attributions consistent with my prejudice. The stereotype do make me feel frustrated because I work really hard to score good on the test, but people would think I know it from birth because I’m asian. And whenever I do bad on a test, people would would common things like “ are you really asian? you’re supposed to be good at math.”
This is another type of prejudice because the discipline officer immediately thought it was the girl without any evidence. This is like displaced aggression- scapegoat theory (327) because everyone starts be say that the girl has steal the phone, blaming a relatively powerless innocent person for something that is not her fault. At the time I thought she is someone who would do things like that, but now when I think back, I shouldn't be biased like that. Being so prejudice can make people have faulty