A stereotype is used to catergorize a group of people. People don't understand that type of person, so they put them into classifications, thinking that everyone who is that needs to be like that, or anyone who acts like their classifications is one. ( taken from here )
Based on my opinions, they reflect ideas that groups of people hold about others who are different from them.
For instance, i said i want to drink soft drinks and in everyone's mind soft drinks are coke whereas there are still alot of other soft drinks like pepsi,7up,sprite and etc.
As the example above, " i am asian, so i must like maths" that is just a conclusion made by people and everyone will be brain washed by that conclusion.Another example is like when i see a person who smokes, the first impression towards me are the person is bad,the person is violent and alot of negative thoughts just appear in my mind just like brain storming. But,i have learnt from here that people who smokes not all are bad just like when we see a handsome looking guy and we just make a conclusion saying that he's a playboy. It is too early to judge a person like that.
Last time before i wore my contact lense, i was wearing a nerd looking glasses when i was still young,my mom doesn't allowed me to wear contact lense yet as i do not know how to take care of it. I was called as a nerd and geek just because of wearing glasses.
When i did something wrong, my mom scolded me and i will be complaining to my friends about it. They usually say "mothers are like that!they love nagging" but actually deep in my heart i know that my mom cares about me that is why she scolded me.
Stereotypes can influenced people easily especially teenagers like us when we still do not have a well rounded look of life yet. We believe people easily. There are alot of stereotypes out there, some may be bad and some may be good which will lead us to a brighter side. Therefore, we need to think twice before taking a step to avoid any mistakes. We should not be influenced by media easily.
2 comments:
Agree with Mei Fenn, we human easily get influence from other people or surrounding people as well. When i was a child, my mother used to said that don't go near Indian people because they will catch you and sell you to other country and they are bad, well this case actually happened but just 1% out off 100% of Indian people. We can said ALL Indian people are bad just because that 1%. After I met some Indian friends only I know what I thought when I was a child was wrong. What I'm trying to say is that people easily believe anything that comes out from other people's mouth especially those who we believe in.
I'm agree with it , it is totally unfair !! it not mean that a smoking people must a bad person , my uncle is a smoker , but he is a nice person i ever meet .
Like what ZS said , ours mother tell us don not near indian people , what problem about them ? they are nice !! not all indian are bad like what they said .........
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