Stereotyping, Prejudice and Discrimination, these terms are
used to depict ideas and information that are too general and could have false
information. Due to the generalization of the information society would have
the wrong or only part of the idea of the subject. The effects are very
negative and have a strong impact on other people’s lives.
Stereotyping is the idea taken about certain individuals or
way of doing things, but these ideas could be wrong or not accurate. However,
most stereotypes are used as jokes and for other comical purposes, because it
is used for jokes society take them as a true piece of information. Some of the
stereotypes that I have seen are racial such as, saying Egyptians are smart and
sexual such as; men do more or better jobs than women.
Prejudice is the judgment which is usually negative towards
people or a person, because of social class, race, beliefs, etc… these
judgments are being applied without base or actual experience and information. Some
forms of prejudice are classism where people who are uneducated or poor are
considered unimportant stupid individuals, racism where people think that their
race is superior to other cultures.
Discrimination is the treatment on an individual based on
his or her ethnic background, this treatment is based on stereotypes and
prejudice which as we have learned are information that are general and may be
wrong. Due to the lack of experience with other cultures people use any
available information which could be wright or wrong. A form of discrimination
that I have experienced is the treatment of foreigners in work place such as
seeing a native English speaker we think they are smart and hard working.
I believe that Stereotyping, prejudice and Discrimination are
the result of people focusing on what makes them different from other cultures.
Another reason is that some people fear change and believe that their way of
life is in danger. Everybody knows that change is inevitable that is why I ask
will people accept this change and focus on how similar people are before it is
too late?
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