Out Group Homogeneity Analysis

This week happened to be more than what I expected. From the beginning, I was looking up to this time of the course because I have a lot of answered questions in my mind about racism, stereotypes, prejudices, and discrimination. The first thing that overwhelmed me, though it is a reality, is what the author called “out-group homogeneity effect”. The fact that stereotyping is so easy as we convince ourselves that people who are not part of our in-group have nothing in common with us, and that they are all the same; while we (in our in-group) are unique and individual. This explains what Professor Robert Jensen meant by the white supremacy and how they believe to be special, intelligent, and they are the ones who made this great country. Also, this explains what Peggy McIntosh meant about unearned male advantage and conferred dominance.
Moreover, stereotype can be explained by the “illusory correlation principle”, which is the tendency of associating a negative action of one member of the out-group to the group as a whole. I hate to admit that this is the

In the upbringing of these children, they cannot make any mistake because whatever they do wrong small or big in the eyes of our culture it is just what was meant to happen as they had no father figure in their lives. When they happen to be successful, unfortunately, they are not given credit for their hard work; rather it is called luck on their path. When a girl from a normal family gets pregnant for example, the fault is more to the man, and in some cases they do not even shy to say that their daughter was raped. When she gets pregnant and manages to get married before people recognize that she is pregnant, it will be called smartness that she made the right move not to disgrace her family. Obviously, this is an “ethnocentric attributional bias” toward children who were not lucky to their fathers in my