Stereotypes

What are Stereotypes?

As we saw in class, stereotypes are a generalization of a group of people, this generalization may be true or false, very common stereotypes are the ones of seeing an Asian, and say he is Chinese, when he can be from Japan or Korea.

As people do not see the unique part of each individual of society, we focus on the things we know about them,  things we may seen in movies, documents, or even heard in some jokes. Stereotypes are the ignorance of knowledge towards a culture. 

Another example can be the amount of fat people in the U.S documentaries and studies say that one-third of U.S adults are obese. and 17% of the children are obese. Seeing this, when we generalize the U.S people, we say they are fat. 

Read every sign that different peoples from different cultures are holding.