In present-day society people are divided into groups where one group is Asian, another is disabled, and others are ranked as a first-class wealth. many of the groups that are divided today are shown how people related, or people who are shown differently past then. Many groups that have listed have been in a situation where stereotyping was directed to them in a way. Not only people with the major physical appearance who get accused of stereotyping but also people who show little way of wanting to be who they are, like how some people change their gender. Many places, many community, and many people are slowly showing others that stereotyping is okay and fine and that everyone should be doing it, so many communities find ways to try and prevent or even stop it. Being prejudice or stereotypical is an international problem and people need to learn how it happens, who most likely the victims are, the role of sex/gender in the situation, so everyone can find a way to prevent for a situation as big as this will be at an end. Stereotyping is a form of being prejudice to a group of people or one person, and it is like a virus that spreads more and more throughout history.
Some people look at it as categorizing and putting things in order, but in reality and it is not a great idea in do that. When putting things in its place, it leads to looking at things from greatest to least, where people who are “normal” are known as the greatest, and the people who are a different color are who look “different” are known at least. A publisher, Kendra Cherry states, “We depend upon our ability to place people, ideas, and objects into different categories in order to make the world simpler and easier to understand.”(Cherry 2018)
Prejudice and stereotyping are just two examples of the mental mistakes that result from our tendency to quickly categorize information in the world around us. On earth, the dominant species are human beings and there are many people who are categorized based on their skin tone, and what they can and cannot do. Almost all people are categorized by race, for examples Islanders, African Americans, Asians, and etcetera. People who look different are mostly placed in a spot where they are victimized even though they did not do anything wrong or anything bad that will make receive the hate that they are given. African Americans are mostly pointed at during being victimized, because of where past society put them in place in that generation.
During that time British people used them as slaves and made themselves to be feared of and now that that society did that action it affected the way everyone in the worldview African Americans. Not only color can take on being victims of stereotyping but also whether one is disabled or not. Various people help them and see them as a fragile piece of work, but some other people view them as a target. That reason why is that it is because some people see their weak spot and that they have no strength. Not only does the color of a person’s skin is what causes to be victimized, but also does it affect people who are coming out as a transgender, gay, lesbian, or bisexual.
A writer named Alyssa Rosenberg took her opinion to the internet writing “…the number of respondents who said they would be somewhat or very uncomfortable having LGBT members of their faith communities, learning that a family member was LGBT, having their child taught by an LGBT teacher or study LGBT history in school, finding out that their doctor was LGBT, or even seeing same-sex couples holding hands all ticked upward.” To summarize the line that has been quoted, it means that in the early 2000s and to this day some people feel foreign and uncomfortable with people of the LGBT community.
Since the years progressed and people are accepting change it’s most likely that there are not as much of discrimination as it was in the 1990s or the 2000s than it is today. When trying to make the world better, it does take one step but requires to stay on the same path and not giving up. There is never a full end to stereotyping, but all it takes to someone who tries and puts an effort to end. One way to prevent stereotyping is what an internet writer, Erin Whitehead states, “We all have problems, concerns, difficulties, tragedies, and triumphs. Before you judge, try to imagine what it’s like to be them.” (Whitehead 2015) The sentence is a clear view on how people should act towards one another, they must put them in their shoes, not literally but how they were pointed out and their emotions, because of the words or actions others are showing towards them. People should also put a positive and optimistic viewpoint towards their surroundings. In today’s generation, groups that are divided today is shown how people related, or people who are shown differently past then.
Stereotyping has put most everyone in an awkward, harsh situation that was pointed directing to them. Not only people with the major physical appearance who get accused of stereotyping but also people who show little way of wanting to be who they are, like how some people change their gender. Many places, many communities, and many people are slowly showing others that stereotyping is not okay and highly rude, harsh, and wrong and that everyone should be doing it, so many communities find ways to try and prevent or even stop it. Being prejudice or stereotypical is an international problem and people need to learn how it happens, who most likely the victims are, the role of sex/gender in the situation, so everyone can find a way to prevent for a situation as big as this will be at an end.
