Racial Stereotyping Research Paper

Stereotyping is very common throughout the world, and is sometimes overlooked, but it can place a harmful effect on students. With the mix of multicultural, people are usually been categorized and placed into a certain group. As a foreign student in English speaking country, we are often been categorised into group because of the racism and racial. One of the stereotype is people place that the nerdy student who wears suspenders, has a funny accent, and gets straight A’s in a group. Other than that, the other stereotype is racial stereotype. In this racial stereotype the “black student” will always been categorised into the bad student group by most of the people. Then with these stereotypes, we usually apply them to the race in general.
For example, racial stereotyping for an Asian student says that they are smart and excel in school, so with this in mind the student will more confident and more determined to keep this stereotype in place. Though many people believe that there are many good stereotypes, but the negative stereotypes always outweigh the positive stereotypes. One stereotype would be against African-American students who are stereotyped as being adept in sports but slow in intellectual activities. Research has shown that negative stereotyping can temporarily decrease memory capacity (UA News Services). With this stereotype and a student’s awareness of it, the student would perform poorly knowing that he or she is expected to be lacking in intellectual ability. The student knows that this is what society expects out of him or her and that also explains why the Asian student would do better if they knew about the racial stereotype. Sometimes it is not the student who is at fault, but society for accusing the student to be something they are not. Racial stereotyping shows the student what others expect out of them, so many would try to uphold this stereotype instead of acting against it