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    Stereotyping In Education Stereotyping is when you treat people unfairly just because they have characteristics of a certain group (Merriam Webster Dictionary). In education stereotyping is something you come in touch with every single day, it is so common we don’t even know it is happening. In everyday life Stereotypes are used, they are directed towards ethnicity, gender, and education. “In ethnicity, we have the ideas that each race is a certain way” (Aronson. The impact of stereotypes). Here

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    Stereotypes Most people have encountered stereotypical behavior, either by being stereotyped or by stereotyping a particular group of individuals themselves. This simplistic or overstated vague notion may occur consciously or unconsciously depending on a person’s perspective, his or her exposures to diverse cultures, as well as immediate social influences. Moreover, stereotyping has the potential to result in negative generalizations that may progenerate displaced anger towards scapegoats; however

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    as categorization. Categorization and stereotyping are both fundamental to human nature; helping make the world more predictable. Stereotyping is most often used by everyday people who don’t know a person, so they judge them by how they look, or by how they carry themselves. Everyone, at some point in their lives, has been stereotyped based on different aspects of their person, such as “acting like a man” or “manning up” because I am a male. Stereotyping can be both positive and negative, but typically

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    Stereotyping

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    Stereotyping In My essay I will discuss stereotyping and different types of stereotyping. I will discuss how in todays society people are stereotyped in different many ways. In today’s society, there are stereotypes for almost any groups that individuals belong to. At some point in any person’s life, they would have experienced stereotyping. For instance, it is often said that all African Americans are good at basketball, males are more aggressive than females, Lawyers are deceitful, and the list

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    Stereotyping

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    humans are affected by negative stereotyping. Stereotyping can have lasting effects on a person. Some people feel like the odd person walking down the street do to stereotyping. Some of the negative effects of stereotyping are inability to focus, performing poorly, and falling into harsh stereotyping. Having the inability to focus may affects people at work, school, or at home. In the first passage they said that even after a person leaves a situation of stereotyping they are faced with coping with

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    Stereotyping wasn't a big problem when living in Texas. Living in Wisconsin was a whole different story. People find it offensive, and it could end up being racist. Always remember what is being said to others and how careful one has to be. Even if they know what people are saying just for fun and no harm is intended, people can take it to another measure. Nothing shouldn't be done period and we shouldn't allow it.  Moving from Texas to Wisconsin was a hard to do. The people were more diverse and

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    Stereotyping Stereotypes

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    The denotation of stereotyping itself is comprised of a derogatory attitude that people hold against or towards individual’s within a specific group. Stereotyping has always been a part of humanity’s nature to judge because of the societal perception that people constantly use to analyze and classify things. It is an everyday habit, that has highly influenced society’s character towards people that belong to different groups, more particularly, people’s “age, gender, race, religion, etc”(Chen

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    What Is Stereotyping?

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    immediately judge them without realizing it. Categorizing people without really knowing them is called stereotyping. This is a problem within our society that needs to change before it gets any worse. There are different kinds of stereotyping and some are worse than others. Stereotyping makes an impact on the people being stereotyped and the person stereotyping them. There are different types of stereotyping that have different effects on people. There are ethnic, gender, and disability stereotypes along

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    Stereotyping Stereotypes

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    someone, for example, when we say all police officers are corrupt, all men who aren’t into sports are gay or all blonde women are dumb. Stereotyping is a result of incompetence on distorted information accepted as a fact without question. A stereotype is simply a widely-held belief that an individual is a member of a certain group based upon characteristics. Stereotyping can be positive, for example, all Blacks are good at sports, all Asians are good at math or French people are romantic. Stereotypes

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    In Time Stereotyping

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    Stereotyping can lead to bias, prejudice, and discrimination, sometimes causing exclusion of groups, or oppression, often which are minorities. They are given specific characteristics to fit into, which they often do not. Stereotyping happens all over the world, more specifically in America. They create a facade of a preeminent characteristic. They can have dire consequences, become emotionally damaging attacks, which often results in hurting many people mentally and even physically. This stereotyping

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