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Prejudice And Racial Stereotypes

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Stereotypes are something that we are all affected by in our everyday lives in one way or another. You may have made a stereotype about someone, and not even realize that you are stereotyping them. For that reason I believe that there are many different stereotypes embedded into our minds. Everyone has made a stereotype about someone, and may have been wrong or right about that stereotype. Either way if you were wrong or right about what you thought about, or labeled on a person, it is still a stereotype. I have noticed that people do not take the time to get to know someone, but rather stereotype them off appearances or gender, or religion, and many other different categories of people.

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Racial stereotypes are ones that we hear a lot. We hear these stereotypes everywhere, in politics, on the streets, and many more places. Many times you hear that because you are a certain race, you should supposably act, talk, or do things a certain way. Also that races can do different things better than other races because of the way they look and are physically built. Additionally, certain races are known to do or eat different things, and if you are that certain race then your the way people perceive your race to be. In my survey a male 11th grader tells me about his encounter with a racial stereotype that was put on him. He said, “ People said that I sucked at sports because I was white so I stopped trying.” He continues telling me how he is stereotyped because of his race, since he is white he is perceived not to be good at sports. People stereotyped him as non-athletic because the stereotype they hear, that caucasian people are not good at sports. Even though there are many caucasian star athletes that are famous for being amazing at a sport, people still categorized him as non-athletic because he was white. This shows how people let stereotypes, they hear, create unreasonable assumptions and takes away the logic that there are races which maybe good at things that they are known for not being able to do or be good at. Even if there are caucasian people who are the best at a sport other caucasians will still be perceived as not being good enough to play sports because stereotypes have created a norm of how caucasian play sports. This once again shows how stereotypes are embedded in our way of thinking, that even with logic we can’t seem to stop stereotyping someone because of their race, the way they look, gender, and other

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