Important to realize that the case mentioned before lead us to another concept that is “stereotype” that is defined as “generalizations or, quite often overgeneralizations, of a group” (Plous 3). This is another factor to create wrong concepts about a whole group of people that belong to another race or country. Stereotypes give false information about the traditions or customs of a group in the society. At the same time, this false information is passed on until they become bigger and the negative ideas about the group start to increase until they become “truths”.
Another example of this cases is from a JBU student from Guatemala, she says that she does not feel well sometimes because she greets and smiles some people and they just ignore
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The problem is that there is a lack of knowledge about what each different group of people with different nationalities or race truly are. A compilation of commentaries heard during some months at John Brown University show the lack of information that Americans have about the different countries around the world: “Honduras is a country in Africa”, “Are there cars in your countries?”, “Are you going to be able to communicate, I mean, do you have cell phones in your country?”, “There is no ketchup in Honduras”, “Have you ever eaten pizza or hamburgers? Do you have this food at your home?” Of course, this does not mean that all the people think like these, but it is a matter of concern to educate a little more about other nations so students can have an extended view of the world and this will help, in consequence, to see different cultures through different eyes and understand and be respectful to them. Understanding different worldviews help people to recognize how others see the sphere and how they decided to act based on what they believe. (Ostrander …show more content…
Sixty of them are from different countries of Central America and Mexico because of the scholarship called “Walton Scholarship”. The others are from all around the world, some of them are Missionary Kids, people that have grown up in other countries because they parents are missionaries. And the rest have come here with sportive scholarships or they paid for their education.
In fact, according to numbers found on the website of the university, 26% of the students at John Brown University are from different ethnic backgrounds apart of the White Americans (jbu.edu). This shows that they are the minority and sometimes because of the lack of information about their backgrounds and culture, there are some judgments that are created within the student population. Also, White Americans can be stigmatized because of the stereotypes that have been formed in others places of the world through the past of the