...some Asians who are proud to have this stereotype associated with them. I would be proud to be a part of a category of people that had a positive stereotype because even if the generalization does not apply to me, at least others will think it does. This makes all members of the group look good on a very broad perspective. • What are the negative aspects of stereotypes? Several negative aspects of stereotyping come to mind when thinking about these aspects. One negative aspect of stereotypes is that something you observe can be a false representation of what is the norm. Stereotypes are unreliable, exaggerated generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual differences into account. The definition states that they are both unreliable and exaggerated. When generalizations are made alone people’s feelings can get hurt, so you can only imagine how it makes one feel to hear a exaggerated generalization about themselves. Stereotypes can also make people feel start to believe in them when they constantly hear certain stereotypes and start to live up to the negative generalization. This can happen especially when the individual does not have a mentor or role model to look up to, that proves the stereotype wrong. Answer each question in 150 to 250 words related to those stereotypes: • What is the difference between stereotyping and prejudice? Use examples to illustrate the...
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...|resulting from the normal operations of a society | |Political correctness |The avoidance of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, | | |or insult certain groups of people. | Part II Write a 150- to 250-word response to each of the following questions: • How is discrimination different from prejudice and stereotyping? Discrimination is different from prejudice and stereotyping because, when somebody is discriminating they are refusing equal rights and opportunities to somebody because, they are prejudice. If somebody is prejudice they would have negative feelings towards somebody or a group of people before knowing them. Which is basically the same principal as stereotyping; stereotyping is somebody judging people without knowing anything about them. These are slight differences in each, but if you get them mixed up you may make the mistake of accusing somebody of something that they aren’t actually doing. In my opinion discrimination is much worse than being prejudice or stereotyping. However, I think all three are...
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...percent of the actors leaving only 26.9 percent for acting roles for minorities. Showing that diversity has yet to be achieved. Even though society is supposedly evolving there is less than fifty percent of the acting roles that are going to minorities. Embracing diversity in the media is important because it will shed light on the importance of protecting against racial stereotyping. Racial stereotyping is a well know problem that all minorities have faced. Racial stereotyping is when a person has preconceived...
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...minorities through film Introduction: Stereotyping against minorities had been an issue since the 20th century and since then the minorities had been protesting against the discrimination and inequality in entertainment industries. This includes the discrimination in vote, ownership, basic human rights and social rights which led to the stride of the minorities to protest for the equal rights living in a country. For example in America, the black Americans were hunted and lynched by the white Americans and it was celebrated as a sport. So in mid of 20th century, although the black Americans got their freedom, they still faced the color racism by the majority of America. Stereotyping against minorities through entertainment started at the start of the entertainment industry in the world. Unfortunately, stereotyping against the minorities through media was also recorded by the film’s historians. Considering the example of Joseph Goebbels, who was the propaganda general during World War 2 and he was considered to be the founder of the discrimination portrayed in his directed films. During Nazi Regime, there were many stereotyping against the Jews and this discrimination was proudly displayed by the Goebbels propaganda they specifically targeted the Jewish controlled organization and they were negatively portrayed in the entire film. However these stereotyping ended by the end of National Socialist Party but sadly the practice of stereotyping the minorities through film remained...
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... Term Definition Discrimination Denying someone or some people of their rights due to prejudice of their group or ethnic background Institutional discrimination When business deny someone or some people of their rights because of prejudice or ethnic background Political correctness Refraining from language or actions that offend certain groups Part II Write a 150- to 250-word response to each of the following questions: • How is discrimination different from prejudice and stereotyping? Stereotypes are exaggerated labels that are put on certain people of a group without considering the individuals themselves. Prejudice is similar to stereotyping due to it being directed at a group. However, it goes so far as to be the negative attitude towards those groups based on race or religion. Discrimination is actually denying the rights of those individuals based on their ethnic background or race. Where stereotyping and prejudice are only frowned upon, discrimination is illegal and punishable by law. If you or your business is caught discriminating then you can be looking at jail time. Stereotyping and prejudice are beliefs. Discrimination is taking those thoughts and beliefs and creating actions against those people due to their color, age or ethnic background. For example, Hitler discriminated against the Jews because he took their rights away. For a long time America discriminated against the Blacks. They couldn’t hold specific jobs or go to the same schools...
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...Theory of stereotyping Stereotyping is a form of pre judgment that is as prevalent in today's society as it was 2000 years ago. It is a social attitude that has stood the test of time and received much attention by social psychologists and philosophers alike. Many approaches to, or theories of stereotyping have thus been raised. This essay evaluates the cognitive approach that categorization is an essential cognitive process that inevitably leads to stereotyping. Hamilton (1979) calls this a 'depressing dilemma'. Brown's (1995) definition of stereotyping through prejudice is the 'holding of derogatory social attitudes or cognitive beliefs, the expression of negative affect, or the display of hostile or discriminatory behavior towards members of a group on account of their membership to that group'. This definition implies that stereotyping is primarily a group process, through the individuals psyche's within that group. A further idea of stereotyping, defined by Allport (1954) as 'thinking ill of others without warrant', is that people 'make their mind up' without any personal experience. This pre judgment about a whole group is then transferred to the stigmatization of any individuals in that group. It is these ideas that the essay aims to evaluate, through the cognitive process of categorization and the above definitions that bring about three distinct features of stereotyping, that our cognition can be demonstrated through. The first characteristic of stereotyping is over-generalization...
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...and reflection. The conflict perspective is presented in this movie dons on tension between groups over power or the allocation of resources, including housing, money, access to services and political representation. This movie uses tension to advance the story line of each character forcing them into positions of conflict as well as dependence, and emphasizes the status of equality in America. In order to progress to a more equal society it is essential that Americans examine the biases presented in the movie Crash, especially those most often seen in modern society such as stereotyping, hate crimes, color blind racism and ethnocentrism. Stereotypes are defined as unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group. From the opening scene the movie depicts a car crash involving two police detectives and an Asian woman. The stereotyping begins immediately when the Asian woman tells the police officer writing the traffic report that Mexicans don’t know how to drive. She blake too fast! A verbal struggle ensues between Ria the Latina police detective, who is driving and the Asian woman. Ria mocks her incorrect pronunciation of the word brake and her small stature. This is the first of many such conflicts. The Asian woman demonstrates that in her mind the stereotypical Latina is a Mexican who cannot drive. In...
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...name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: Race Ethnicity Religion Gender Sexual orientation Age Disability |Category |Stereotype 1 |Stereotype 2 |Stereotype 3 | |Race |Black males are women beaters. |Mexicans come to Louisiana just |All Muslims are here to blow up | | | |for work so they can double their |things. | | | |money. | | |Sexual Orientation |All gay guys act like black |In a lesbian relationship, one of |Men take about three minutes to | | |females. |the females acts like the male |shower. | | | |figure. | | |Age |Old people forget many of things. |All young children are stubborn |Teenagers get into the most | | | |and nasty. |trouble. | Part II Answer each question in 50 to 100 words related to those stereotypes...
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...Assignment 2 Topic: Ethnic-based stereotyping in the workplace Introduction In this discussion, I will be looking at the topic of ‘Ethnic-based stereotyping in the workplace’. Stereotyping affects us all, and we do it every day, most of the time without us even realising it. Hopefully by the end of this discussion, I will have informed you of what the basic principles are behind specifically ethnic stereotyping, how it works, how it affects us and the workplace, and a quick look at some of the ways an organisation can help manage it. So, without further ado. What is ethnic stereotyping? First, the definition of stereotyping, it is the process of assigning traits to people on the basis of their membership in a social category (McShane, Orlekands & Travaglione 2014, p. 78), the word ethnic, refers to the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition (Oxford Dictionary: Ethnicity 2015). Integrating the ethnic factor in, the definition would become, the process of assigning traits to people on the basis of their ethnic category. Ethnic stereotyping, or any stereotyping for that matter, is a natural error associated with the general perceptual process, which being, is the process of receiving information about the world, through our senses, then to be either interoperated or screen out, so we can make sense of our world (McShane, Orlekands & Travaglione 2014, p. 75). This concept of ethnic stereotyping is very simple and easy to...
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...Stereotyping Social Psychology June 27, 2015 Jennifer – Jennifer is an African American woman working as an administrative assistant for the same company I work for. We talked about our families and what we were planning this weekend, I told her we didn’t any plans yet. We started talking about work and what we do daily; I asked her what she thought about stereotypes within the company. She said working as an administrative assistant she sees a lot that goes on. People will walk by her desk talking and you hear things like “working with a woman is difficult because all women are moody” or “the new girl working in the mailroom can’t seem to catch on, but that is to be expected because all blondes are dumb.” She said when she hears things like this it makes her angry because people are judging other people based on either past experiences or because they have been taught or brought up to believe that. They don’t give people a chance to show who they are. Michael – Michael is a personal trainer at the gym I go to, Michael and I talk quite a bit when I am at the gym. When I asked him what he thought of stereotyping in the gym, he said working in a gym stereotyping is something that is seen daily by the people that work out and by gym staff. The staff will assume things about the clients look when they come in, he said that when one client came in and brought her son with her to work-out. The staff started saying “that kid wouldn’t know a piece of workout equipment if it...
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...based on the September 11th terror attacks on the United States by a group of Muslim terrorists. This particular scene provides an example of stereotyping. According to the book Multicultural Law Enforcement, stereotyping is when people classify someone based on a particular pattern, but do not recognize their individuality. The white store owner believes that the Muslim man in his store is going to commit some type of criminal act, because of what little knowledge he has of Muslims. This lack of knowledge about Muslims, and the terrorist attacks completed by Muslims on US soil lead him to exhibit some form of stereotyping against all Muslims. The reality of stereotyping is that it has existed in humanity for centuries and still plays a major role in the lives of so many people around the world. I think that the only way to reduce stereotyping is by increasing education about what makes us different and embracing our uniqueness. Matt Dillon’s character John Ryan is vividly engrained into my imagination. John Ryan and his partner receive a call of a car- jacking involving a black Navigator. Ryan and his partner see a black Navigator in passing, run the plates and his partner advises him that, it is not the vehicle they are looking for. Ryan then proceeds to pull the car over and once stopped, notices it is being driven by a black couple. When he approaches the car he gets upset by the giddiness of the couple and suggests that they were involved in a sexual act. Ryan,...
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...outside of that person’s particular social group, whatever it may be, thinks about him as being like the group’s stereotype, without knowing anything about him; conversely, we say a person is “stereotyping” another if he thinks in stereotypes about people in a certain social group, again, whatever it may be. Most stereotypes are negative and offensive, a few are positive, and some are neutral. A negative stereotype shows a group in a bad light (For example, African Americans are violent.); a positive stereotype shows a group in a good light (For example, “… Asians are good at math” (www.ask.com); and a neutral stereotype is one that is neither good nor bad (For example, Blacks loves watermelon). Perhaps, the most prevalent stereotypes in the US concern all the different races and ethnic groups who live there. An examination of some common stereotypes regarding African Americans, Hispanics/ Latinos, and Asians in the US will demonstrate that negative, positive, and/or neutral stereotypes exist about all three of these groups; There are many negative stereotypes, a few positive stereotypes, and a few neutral stereotypes about African Americans/Blacks in the US. Some of the negative stereotypes are that they are all violent, lazy, are all less intelligent than whites and brown people, and are all ugly with lips that are too big (“Stereotypes of African Americans,” Wikipedia). Some...
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...Disability Category | Stereotype 1 | Stereotype 2 | Stereotype 3 | Race | Asian’s are smart and work for cheap | White men can’t Jump | Black people are better at Sports | Sexual Orientation | If your gay then you like all other gays | Women are bad drivers | Gay boys are feminine or sissies | Ethnicity | Hispanics are illegal | Jews are greedy | All black people are on welfare | Part II Answer each question in 50 to 100 words related to those stereotypes. Provide citations for all the sources you use. What are the positive aspects of stereotypes, if any? There are plenty of negative aspects of stereo types, and it is hard to anticipate any positive outcome from any slandering remark. Let it be known that there are actual positive aspects to labeling and stereotyping. If you are Asian, your positive stereotypes are your math skills. (Markman, 2013) Markman questions the stereotypes and our temperament, “if negative stereotypes make you mad, then do positive stereotypes do the opposite”. What are the negative aspects of stereotypes? The negative aspects of stereotypes have a lasting and lingering effect, it causes emotional distress, that constitutes for anger and aggression, it will effect your self esteem, self confidence, and your ability to cope with other emotions. “Past studies have shown that people perform poorly in...
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...cultural reform. Part II Write a 150- to 250-word response to each of the following questions: • How is discrimination different from prejudice and stereotyping? Discrimination, prejudice and stereotyping are all similar but they differ in many ways. Discrimination is the denial of opportunities and equal rights because of prejudice or other reasons. Prejudice is negative attitude about an entire group. Stereotyping is where someone makes an assumption about a person or group by the way they look. People’s individualities are not taken into consideration when it comes to prejudice. Stereotypes are not always a negative attitude toward a person or group. However discrimination and prejudice are always negative attitudes toward a certain person or group. Another difference is that discrimination and prejudice result in rejection toward a certain person or group of people. Stereotypes usually do not always result in rejecting anyone form anything. Stereotypes can be either negative or positive. The last difference is that discrimination deprives a group from certain rights or opportunities. One place where I see discrimination is in certain work places. • What are the causes of discrimination? There are many causes for discrimination; however there are two particular causes that come to mind. The first cause...
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...and sexual orientation. Discrimination is used because of a serious form of stereotyping, where people who are put into these stereotypes are treated unfairly, and sometimes are subject to both physical and mental abuse because of the way society sees them as. Stereotyping and discriminating against said stereotypes is an unjustified cultural norm in society and should be brought to awareness to stop it. It is necessary to understand what is bad about discriminating, why people stereotype, and how the world can prevent future discrimination. Discrimination is harmful to society because it creates a sense of worthlessness in the individuals...
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