Stereotypes are the way people classify others based on
preconceived ideas. It is hard to determine if they are correct or not. Police
detective use profiling which is a form of stereo typing. However, statistically it
works in their favor when it comes to catching bad guys.
As
a citizen I find that stereo typing can hurt people. If someone sees a large black man
coming down the street towards them at night they are more likely to exhibit fear than f
they see a large white man. Every culture has stereo
types.
Stereotyping can be unfair. I have a large black
son who is like a kitten. If he were walkig down the street at night he would most
like;ly be expected to be dangerous but he is very sweet and would not hurt a
fly.
It is not as easy to get rid of stereo types as one
thinks. All my life I have worked hard not to stereo type people. Yet, even in my own
culture I have stereo types. Having been ordained to marry a nice Jewish man I had a
few dates with Jewish men who were dark very hairy and their nose hair grew to their
upper lip, but as my grandmother exclaimed "They are doctors." However, whenever anyone
tried to fix me up with a blind date and told me he was Jewish I thought of the
stereotype of the men I ahd dated.
I married a gentile and
moved to Germany. While there I met many blond haired Jewish men who had blue eyes and
were from Israel. Boy did my stereo type go ou the window.
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