Are People Overestimated Stereotypes

Stereotype are a big issues in today society, some people overestimate other just knowing where are they from or what religion they follow. I have heard many times people overestimate other with stereotype like “all the Jews help themselves” and “all the Asians are good at math”. However, as well as overestimated stereotype underestimated stereotype has negative effects on people, stereotype like “Women do not know how to drive” and “Black Dudes Are Super Violent By Nature” are two that I have listen the most. There are many people that fail judging an entire culture by the behavior of some of their people. I think that analyzing, knowing and being in the shoes of others are 3 steps to overcome underestimated and overestimated stereotyped thinking.

That tweens brother could be as different as water and oil. Imagine that some body has to make stereotype about us. This was the best way to overcome the stereotyped thinking for my friend Pedro that never had the opportunity to travel around or met different cultures. The exercise is simple first think about you. What is your father, mother, and siblings like. Imagine that your brother stole something, and your family is prejudged as thieves because of that. Know is put it in a bigger picture someone in that has the same religion that you did something bad so all the people that follow this religion are bad people? If you go to a bigger picture, some of the people in your country like to eat rat, so all the people in your country eat rat. Even bigger some women have car accident so my mother as a woman is a bad driver. These are the stereotypes that I grow up listening. I just reword it. The fist one was all the Mendez are thieves because one of them stole something of my dad’s. The second was all Muslims are terrorist, I heard that after the 9/11. All Chinese eat rat and all women are bad drivers are popular ones. Every thought change when a person put it in their position. Like that I help my friends to overcome stereotyped