Sterotypes
Stereotypes and Portrayals
Throughout the years, our human race has struggled with equality within our communities. The struggle has not been limited between race and gender but also people with disabilities. The portrayal of people with disabilities to perform certain jobs or achieve the things that others without disabilities can achieve has become more visible to the public eye.
It stems from our culture and continues to float around partly because it is constantly reproduced through communications media. The rights of people with disabilities related to their portrayal in the media are not included in the laws; despite that fact that the media portray people with disabilities has a strong influence on how they are referenced to in real life. This is usually views by people of the non-disabled society. There are 3 main labels that society places on people with disabilities Victim
Perhaps the most common stereotype of persons with disabilities is the victim, a character who is presented as a helpless object of pity or sympathy.
Hero
The flip side of the victim stereotype is the hero, the character who proves her worth by overcoming her disability.
Villain
The third common stereotype is the villain. Throughout history physical disabilities have been used to suggest evil or depravity, such as the image of pirates as having missing hands, eyes and legs.
While some people have unknowingly become use to using labels that Stereotype and Devalue people with disabilities, others have taken the time to show people with disabilities in a better light of equality. Instead of going with the crowd and assuming that people with disabilities are indeed restricted to what the stereotypes states, give a second to research how powerful and resourceful people with disabilities are. Some of the most intelligent people to grace this planet had disabilities.
Albert Einstein, known to be the greatest scientist of the twentieth century and the
Throughout the years, our human race has struggled with equality within our communities. The struggle has not been limited between race and gender but also people with disabilities. The portrayal of people with disabilities to perform certain jobs or achieve the things that others without disabilities can achieve has become more visible to the public eye.
It stems from our culture and continues to float around partly because it is constantly reproduced through communications media. The rights of people with disabilities related to their portrayal in the media are not included in the laws; despite that fact that the media portray people with disabilities has a strong influence on how they are referenced to in real life. This is usually views by people of the non-disabled society. There are 3 main labels that society places on people with disabilities Victim
Perhaps the most common stereotype of persons with disabilities is the victim, a character who is presented as a helpless object of pity or sympathy.
Hero
The flip side of the victim stereotype is the hero, the character who proves her worth by overcoming her disability.
Villain
The third common stereotype is the villain. Throughout history physical disabilities have been used to suggest evil or depravity, such as the image of pirates as having missing hands, eyes and legs.
While some people have unknowingly become use to using labels that Stereotype and Devalue people with disabilities, others have taken the time to show people with disabilities in a better light of equality. Instead of going with the crowd and assuming that people with disabilities are indeed restricted to what the stereotypes states, give a second to research how powerful and resourceful people with disabilities are. Some of the most intelligent people to grace this planet had disabilities.
Albert Einstein, known to be the greatest scientist of the twentieth century and the