how does stereotyping help and affect the students' life and performances in their studies? why does one even stereotype others?
2006-09-03 02:04:15 · 5 answers · asked by ILIzuhaILI 2 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
i prefer serious answers. opinionated kinda answers please. views are also welcome.
2006-09-03 02:17:14 · update #1
That is such a an African American question! Ha ha... just kidding..
Everyone stereotypes, whether they want to or not. It is how your brain determines how to respond or act toward a new face. You look for features of commonality and engage the person based on what you know about the "big picture". It's completely subconcious and everyone does it. Where you draw the line on stereotyping is the big debate.
It has a detrimental effect on education in that teachers will expect more or less out of you because you are purple in color or green in color.
It's best to show them they are wrong if they expect less from you and give you less attention. Some people will stereotype subconciously. Once they've focussed on you and they realize you are really a smart person, you'll win better attention.
2006-09-03 02:19:01 · answer #1 · answered by Moose 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stereotyping is a fancy word for judging. We all judge people but stereotypying allows us to judge people in groups. I think this is wrong because we are all made different (otherwise the world would be boring). We were all made to contribute in someway to human life. It's been a year since I've lived on campus but I remember what stereotype people gave to certain groups, "the smokers", "the jocks", "the science-wingnuts." Campus life is not as tough as highschool though and that's because there are way too many people you don't know. Stereotyping on campus usually takes place in dorms, which is sad. Stereotyping is sad in general, but it has become and american past-time. People now do it for fun...how silly is that.
2006-09-03 02:25:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think stereotype has several faces, first and rudimentary or incipient state is people judgement by race or coloured or even face and behaviours which is the simplest and the worse one, second is because of your memory background and your mind affected by your past life experience this kind will act very sophisticate from your inner so that you can not recognize it even by yourself and it happens usual, third is about touching of the people by your pure consciousness which is about the inner angel and evil of whom you are facing to for the first time and having an inner sense of goodness or bad of someone.
I believe that if we could judge people without thinking about their appearance and free ourself from our bad memory when meet someone for the first time we can see their spirit by ours and judge them fair. Hope we all could reach to this level, but unfortunately till that time should tolerate all kind of stereotype in every where and not only in campuses
2006-09-03 02:58:43 · answer #3 · answered by Nilpar 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People who stereotype usually are those with low education and there level of understanding is not the same with people who understand that there are diverse kinds of people and culture. what we can do is ignore these kind of people
2006-09-03 02:18:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm all for it. By stereotyping, I can save a lot of time trying to figure someone out... I can just lump them together by age, sex, race, religion... etc... and then either like them or hate them as a group...
It's really quite American, doncha' know.!
2006-09-03 02:09:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋