Stereotypes

Stereotypes are everywhere, but does that accurately reflect reality?  Racial remarks, sexual remarks, and gender remarks are the biggest stereotypes. The actions of a small group of people are assumed to be the actions and habits of all the members of a group. That is how stereotypes are generated. Stereotyping is not fair since people who do not possess the poor traits of a few people who belong in their group receive credit for them anyway. Now the question, "What factors contribute to such prejudice and how?" comes into the equation. There are many sources of stereotypes in society. One major source is jealousy against a race, gender, religion, because their success. Often times we hear members of society go on about how Asians take up all the space in the universities. However, they fail to equate the effort and time they have expended to reach these goals.Another question that might be worth asking about stereotypes is, "Is it possible to grow to adulthood without harboring at least some prejudice toward certain groups. It is not possible to not have at least one stereotype hidden in the subconscious. Especially with the extensive role the media plays in people's lives, it is very difficult to reject the stereotypical information given to you the the brainwashing methods of the media. Unfortunately, there is no such world without discrimination and prejudice. People are judged like a book with a poor cover. Again, people do not stop and give the book a chance in case they might like it. They judge and move on with their next book. A stereotype is only successful if all members of society collectively join in on what they think is a harmless joke. People do not stop to think about how stereotyping can lead to genocide, the worst crime against humanity. Evidently, it happened with the Armenians, Jews, and many other people we probably do not know about.