Whistling Vivaldi Stereotyping
Sandra Gos
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Stereotyping in Sports and Business
Stereotyping has become an issue that has made itself comfortable and “normal” in the American society. We have even began stereotyping before we even knew what we were doing, our minds nonstop categorize people and make assumptions because of what has became a “norm” in today society. Most stereotypes are myths that carry absolutely no proof or evidence behind them. To make things a little bit more clear, stereotyping is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. In the book Whistling Vivaldi by Calude M. Steele, the author, a social psychologist, talks about how stereotypes affect us and how stereotyping has become a huge threat to society especially in the classroom. Today, stereotyping has become a huge ordeal in the classrooms as well as in the sports world and the work place. Stereotyping happens everywhere, there is a stigma surrounding almost everything but largely around sports and in the business world.
I am sure you have once heard at least one stereotype involving the sports world. Whether the stereotype being that only African American males are good at football, or only tall white men are good at basketball. Racial profiling has become such big threat that some individuals do not even attempt a sport that has a stigma surrounding it because of their race. According to the NFL census in 2013 66.72% of the players in the NFL were African American while 29.26% were white. That is a very noticeable difference, but why is there such a difference? Is it because of a stereotype or is it because African Americans are just born with the talent to play football? Every one is born the same way, I truly believe that because of the stigma surrounding sports and race, white member of society do not attempt to play football because it is said that African Americans are better. That goes for other sports as well, like swimming. A huge stereotype
LIBS 201
Stereotyping in Sports and Business
Stereotyping has become an issue that has made itself comfortable and “normal” in the American society. We have even began stereotyping before we even knew what we were doing, our minds nonstop categorize people and make assumptions because of what has became a “norm” in today society. Most stereotypes are myths that carry absolutely no proof or evidence behind them. To make things a little bit more clear, stereotyping is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. In the book Whistling Vivaldi by Calude M. Steele, the author, a social psychologist, talks about how stereotypes affect us and how stereotyping has become a huge threat to society especially in the classroom. Today, stereotyping has become a huge ordeal in the classrooms as well as in the sports world and the work place. Stereotyping happens everywhere, there is a stigma surrounding almost everything but largely around sports and in the business world.
I am sure you have once heard at least one stereotype involving the sports world. Whether the stereotype being that only African American males are good at football, or only tall white men are good at basketball. Racial profiling has become such big threat that some individuals do not even attempt a sport that has a stigma surrounding it because of their race. According to the NFL census in 2013 66.72% of the players in the NFL were African American while 29.26% were white. That is a very noticeable difference, but why is there such a difference? Is it because of a stereotype or is it because African Americans are just born with the talent to play football? Every one is born the same way, I truly believe that because of the stigma surrounding sports and race, white member of society do not attempt to play football because it is said that African Americans are better. That goes for other sports as well, like swimming. A huge stereotype