`Stereotypes are usually inaccurate, often negative, and always dangerous.` write a classification and division essay consider the stereotypes of the following four groups: overweight, teenagers, immigrants and housewives.
People are commonly judgmental that when we see a person, we could easily say different things about them or perhaps talk behind their backs but this is not the most common things we do. People tend to set stereotypes in most of the thing that we do. Eventually, these stereotypes will be used by the people and we soon have the same view of a certain thing in life. However, these stereotypes though mean no harm causes issues and sometimes misunderstanding about people. In stereotyping overweight people, teenagers, immigrants and housewives, we tend to degrade them as a person and show a picture that do not actually like them in any aspects.
In so many ways, stereotyping people affects their lives. Furthermore it causes for them to be considered undesirable in majority. While overweight people were considered as fat and lazy most of the time (Diet-Blog, 2008), teenagers or most youth were considered as criminals not that they simply mean criminals really but because there had been several crimes mostly committed by youths. On the other hand, most immigrants were described in a common way like being boarder hoppers, drop outs, job or identity stealers and the biggest judgment for them is that they are criminals. Housewives who were also stereotyped were describes as cleaners of the house who do not want to see any dirt. These set of stereotypes as seen by the people or as perceived by many do not actually mean of true things and yet this is how we look at people in the society.
All people are different from one another. Considering stereotypes, they are just descriptions but not the reality that depicts people. Maybe at some point stereotypes are true but then again it does not give us all the permission to laugh at them or simply judge them because they are overweight, teenagers, migrants or housewives. We must not consider them as the same because they are not.
Works Cited
Diet-Blog. 2008. Fat Stereotypes: Alive and Well. Retrieved October 29, 2008 from http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2005/10/27/fat_stereotypes_alive_and_well.php
Media Awareness Network. Youth Stereotyping and Its Impact. Retrieved October 29, 2008 from http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/special_initiatives/toolkit/stereotypes/youth_stereotypes_news.cfm
