Stereotypes Case

Introduction

A stereotype is the judgment we make about a group after observing a few of its members. We give judgment to the whole group whether it applies to them or not. Mostly, stereotypes are based on ethnics and races and in most cases they are incorrect. Example, if we say that all Chinese are good in mathematics we have applied a stereotype and obviously some Chinese are not good in mathematics.

Stereotypes existed long time ago and they still exist. Media plays a main role to racial stereotypes in America and all over the world. It is always striving to capture and bring out any form of emotion to the audience so as to make money. Even if media's gluttonies is not important to race topic, the way it tries to strike emotions from their audience, is where the problem lies. Media would want to cover news about a hardworking, decent, middle-class black family, than it would cover about killing associated to an inner-city gang of blacks. It always likes covering news that worry people on an emotion point. People will be watching opposite of what is actually happening to many blacks who live in America. When a person watches or hears news connected with emotion the probability of remembering it is very high that the reason media always gives its audience negative happenings every single day. According to fanny (2006) stereotype will not end any time soon for example, if we make a flash back in the year 1956, schools in America were divided. The black people could not even drink water from the same source with a white people and still up to today they are still discriminated. And this means that children have grandparents who are stereotypical. When I was growing up I had friends of different backgrounds and color, the kind of stereotypes that I know are not based from how their families are or how they acted, but it came from the movies particularly comedies. Media spreads stereotypes since people find them funny and are not against them and for those who try to be are seen to take a joke seriously.

Stereotypes are so much alive since people do believe them. Thoughts about groups are carried on from generation to another and to break the ideas is hard particularly if the stereotypes are enforced. For example, if a Chinese meets a person who is Japanese for the first time and that person tend to be good at math, that stereotype the Chinese had will be reinforced even if they have done sample to one individual. It is very hard to break these feeling and beliefs that people have since they choose not to know that, stereotypes are not just unfounded but wrong. An example of stereotype is that African American like chicken. Personally I would say that several Americans love or like chickens. I wonder why someone would choose to carry on a stereotype. The biggest problem is that people do believe in stereotypes not for being racists but for they are funny. African American carry on jokes about African American stereotypes, and the whites carry on the joke about the white's stereotype. Several comedians base their jokes on themselves and those that are like them (Yoshihisa&Freytag,2012). This might not be seen to cause any harm but it spreads the ideas and keeps the beliefs to the rest who may not have known them. Stereotypes are wrong and it is very difficult to enlighten people on the mistaken beliefs of other races.