stereotype

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.

Stereotype

Stereotype, a very new word yet a stranger to me however, it's a thing that's happening around you and you are in it but you don't know. What is stereotype anyway?

Stereotype is standardized and simplified conceptions of groups, based on some prior assumptions. Generally speaking, these "stereotypes" are not based on objective truth, but rather subjective and often unverifiable content-matter. Mostly of the stereotypes are not based on true facts and proof, some are just, well, opinions of someone.

The picture is a good example of stereotypes. Stereotypes give us a way of though, made us think in a way where they put two pictures together, and ask you, 'What do you think?'. There are alot of stereotype around the world nowadays. When we ask about military force, who came in mind? America! When we ask about terrorist? Arabs! When we ask about anime? Japan!

One of the perspective is that of automatic and implicit or subconscious and conscious. Automatic or subconscious stereotyping is that which everyone does without noticing. Automatic stereotyping is quickly preceded by an implicit or conscious check which permits time for any needed corrections. Automatic stereotyping is affected by implicit stereotyping because frequent conscious thoughts will quickly develop into subconscious stereotypes. (Wikipedia)

Another method to categorizing stereotypes is general types and sub-types. Stereotypes consist of hierarchical systems consisting of broad and specific groups being the general types and sub-types respectively. A general type could be defined as a broad stereotype typically known among many people and usually widely accepted, whereas the sub-group would be one of the several groups making up the general group. These would be more specific, and opinions of these groups would vary according to differing perspectives. (Wikipedia)

For me, stereotypes are a one of the main element which we need to aim for during a publicity for a new product. A good example of a successful publicity which hit the mark of stereotype is Coke and Pepsi.

In conclusion, I would like to emphasize that not all stereotypes had bad influences. If we used it in a proper way, it benefits us more.

Stereotype

First of all, after seeing these two Arab guys walking together you will definitely think something like “are they going to commit another terrorism act”, ”where are they going to bomb this time” etc that surely related to terrorism, you won’t think other things except terrorism act, this is what we call stereotype.

I want to know who created this “stereotype” and why or how? Hate to admit it but I’m also one of these stereotypes. Why people likes judge people by his/hers looks, well this is very unfair to the other people, take me for an example, I have curly hair and my skin tone is brown, when people met me they thought I’m a Malay well actually I’m a Chinese, and just because I watch anime(Japanese cartoon) and manga(Japanese comic) doesn’t mean that I’m a otaku(Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly anime, manga, and video games). Stereotypes can have a negative and positive impact on individuals, but most of the people talk about negative side of people. Many people know this idiom "don't judge a book by its cover" but still ignore it which is very sad and cruel and unfair to those judged by their appearance.

People should make a different between terrorist and Indian, eg, they are from different part of the world, they don’t eat the same food, they don’t even hate the same people, terrorist hate Americans; Indian hate each other, terrorist will blow up an airport; Indian like to work at the airport, so people shouldn’t mix terrorist and the Indian as well as other Muslims country.

Well, since we can’t change stereotypes, we can still safe ourselves by changing our appearance, eg, some Americans will see a Muslims as a terrorist right? What a Muslim can do is change their attire, wear western formal cloths with a tie, with that appearance, we can use their weakness which is “stereotyping” and turn it become our benefit, they will definitely think that Muslim with western formal is someone who work from the government or some important people.

We shouldn’t judge people by his/hers appearance, it is a major problem and people find it offensive through they knowing that they can’t do anything about it. If we doubt the person is it same as what you think in your mind, why don’t take another step and ask to get the truth better than guessing it.

Are bloggers journalists?

To me, I don't really agree that blogger are journalist, some way and somehow they look like a journalist but actually still far from becoming a journalist. Anyone can become a blogger but becoming a journalist must be undergo some training before can really become one of them.

Some people look blogger just as same journalist because they both post something but blogger can simply post any topic or event already happened , while journalist have to go through some process or step as they learn to become a journalist. As you can see the different quality and the way of present it from blogger and journalist is different, eg, blogger usually update their blogs straight away once they are in front of their PC, while journalist will do researches before post any topic.

A journalist will write and post something that will let other readers to think or understand some theories or facts, while blogger write and post something that only related to themselves and usually are jokes or nonsense but this doesn’t means that I don’t respect blogger because come blogger start by blogging before becoming a journalist like pre-training. A journalist can’t simply write or post something because their post or article will affect themselves as a journalist and most probably will get arrest by police ; on the other side blogger can simply post any joke that related to the government or religion, after the discussion blogger can simply delete the post and act as NOTHING happened. What I’m trying to say is journalist hold great responsibility than blogger.

One thing that shows a huge gab between blogger and journalist is some blogger often post something as a 'spoilers' or 'anonymous' and disturb on stick their xxx into other people's business, and then invade other peoples privacy. The government should take action by blocking those 'spoilers' and 'anonymous' IP address from surfing the internet for few days as a warning, or allow the other people to send reports about abusing the blog.

As a conclusion, I still can’t agree that journalist and blogger are the same though they have the similar ways like they like to share what they know about .In the end, both journalist and blogger will earn their respect on other different ways.

Stereotype

	A stereotype is used to categorize 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. -From www.urbandictionary.com

This guy is holding a Big camera, he must be a a Rich Photographer!


This guy own a Mac Book Pro, he must be a rich designer.


This guy is driving a Kancil, he must be a poor guy.


This guy own a Nokia 3310, a old model phone, he must be a poor guy that can't even afford a better phone.
The above are all example of a Stereotype...

Human always take things for granted for what they see.
They looked at something, the first thing went to their mind and they assume that is it.

So what happen if the above example were put together?
A guy that owns a Big camera and Mac Book Pro but he driving a kancil with his Nokia 3310 inside his phone pouch...
So now what is your mind thinking???

stereotype

By definition, stereotyping is close to being biased in giving an opinion, or perceiving matters in a generalized manner. It is very common in the world nowadays as there is racism everywhere, regardless of the country’s status.

Firstly, as an example to illustrate the whole idea, when a person is asked to think what’s in his/her mind when he/she is given a picture of a terrorist, that person would almost and unconsciously think of the Arabians. In truth, not all Arabs are terrorists, only a very small amount of people are but yet the media made it look like the whole country is full of evil people and schemes. This is how powerful a media can propagate stereotyping in its spread.

Next, the media always emphasizes on well-developed countries, namely US, Japan and many more. There’s no denying the fact that these first world countries have contributed a lot globally, but it seems that the media focuses so much on their positives that other countries are not perceived to be as ‘good’ as them. For example, China made goods are always looked down upon by many because their quality is not as good as the developed nations.

Stereotypes are also common in the society level. From the messages that the media propagate everyday, people who do drugs are being stereotyped as the worst people ever. In truth, many of them are just normal people like us that got hit by a big dilemma suddenly. Unable to handle the pressure, they resorted to these drugs and got addicted. Some of them did not take drugs because they are bad, just that the overwhelming stress made them fall. However, that’s not what that would come in our mind first most of the time.

In conclusion, stereotyping is defined by the media, and somehow it blended in well to the society. Though we do not realize, we practice it everyday, whether unconsciously or not. We must know how to handle our thoughts well and try to understand the reasons to why an action is done, or we will fall prey to the media’s actions.

Stereotypes in the Media

Stereotype are commonly seen in media presentation. It usually labels one group or community to a specific characteristic. Most of the stereotype are negative. In other word, criticize the whole group or community. Therefore, the whole world will label that community because of the stereotype media.


Stereotype media can label a community to a positive (eg. tall men are good in basketball) or negative (eg. female drivers are bad drivers) characteristic. It creates an identity to a community. Stereotypes ignore the uniqueness of individuals by painting all members of a group with the same brush.
"In literature and art, stereotypes are clichéd or predictable characters or situations. Throughout history, storytellers have drawn from stereotypical characters and situations, in order to connect the audience with new tales immediately." quote from Wikipedia
In order to connect with the audience, most of the storytellers characterize the character according to the history or the implant of characteristic about the certain community. Therefore, the judgement about the community will be deeper and deeper.



In the disaster drama film World Trade Center (2006), it is about the terrorism attacks at September 11, 2001 in New York City, in which two planes crashed into the buildings of the World Trade Center. This movie is directed by Oliver Stone. This movie has label Afghanistan as a "communist" country.


After the terrorist attack in New York City, all of people Afghanistan is labeled as a terrorist. This is because of the media that to "people of Afghanistan" instead of the specific person who had done the terrorism.


This proves that the stereotype in media presentation has a high influence on us.


At last, I must enforce that not all stereotype are true. Therefore, do not take the judgement too early because of media about criticism on certain community.