How a Self-Fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance
Do you think stereotyping is a good thing ? Stereotyping is like saying all the people or including everything of what you're trying to say. For Example one type of Stereotype is when let’s say that all mexicans are lazy or all asians are smart and get straight A’s in school. There’s many more Stereotypes but it’s all including the word all. One type of Stereotype is that all girl’s wear makeup like it doesn’t matter who you are in general. Also that all mexicans drop out of high school when not all of them do.
In this article what it’s talking about is basically about how some people use their type of stereotype for example what i’m trying to explain is that most people use the word like all people that work at the swap meet are lazy or mexicans but that isn’t true because from my point of view of what i’ve seen is that all type of people shop or work there even white people say they don’t shop there. But that’s a lie since all type of people go to shop there and buy the things they need. The author Shankar Vedantam explains his/hers point of view like how they use stereotype by using the word all in
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They can also be a villain but then could also want to change their personality but people don’t think they could actually change. What this essay is trying to explain is that how people use different stereotypes like how they think in there point of view . I disagree with those type of stereotypes because it’s not true at all well sometimes. But I just don’t agree with all of those