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Stereotypes In Critical Thinking

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I think sometimes we stereotype without knowing and often it 's within our thinking process. Stereotyping has been a issue for years. I wonder if it 's something that will always be issue. There were also many aspects mention in the video that we still have a issue with today. Overall, I thought the video was interesting as
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It appears that stereotypes highlighted in the documentary are still in use today. This is problematic because it shows that things have not changed and that history is repeating itself. However, the movie industry is not totally at fault. The media plays a huge role in portraying Indigenous people negatively. Moreover, the stereotypes provided by the media demonstrate how wrong and insensitive society is.

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This video shows that discrimination and racism has always been a trouble for us as a society. I believe the video has helped many understand how we as people seem to discriminate and

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Have you ever been stereotyped? In fact, millions of people have been stereotyped since the 15th century. Stereotyping scenarios is sometimes used if necessary, stereotyping is a belief of an animate object, it's very likely to happen around the world, Many stereotypes happen when there is a foreigner in another country. Stereotyping is only a belief and could be changed over time, stereotyping can only happen when you see someone that you think has whatever characteristics. Both stories represent stereotypes, Furthermore, the book “The outsiders” by SE hilton presentation is more convincing than the book “The Friday Everything Changed” by Anne Hart.

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Annotated Bibliography Introduction: Examine different kinds of advertisements and the problem at hand with how they perpetuate stereotypes, such as; gender, race, and religion. Thesis: The problem in society today is in the industry of social media. In efforts to attract the eye of the general population, advertising companies create billboards, commercials, flyers and other ads with stereotypes that are accepted in today’s society. Because of the nations’ cultural expectation for all different types of people, advertisement businesses follow and portray exactly what and how each specific gender, race, or religion should be.

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There’s a new report that recently surfaced saying that if people have to receive ads, they’d rather hear them in podcasts. According to the results of the new comScore study, ads within a podcast are found to be the least intrusive of any other type of digital advertising. Furthermore, not only do the listeners not mind hearing the ads, but they actually act on them. The study was conducted of 2,000 United States individuals between 18 to 49 and it found that two-thirds of the listeners have actually acted on the ad they heard by either researching the product or actually purchasing it because of hearing it in the podcast.

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Stereotyping is something I Personally experienced in America. Misconceptions and stereotypes are some of what was seeing in the Simpsons video. Watching that very short clip from the Simpsons episode and my own experience with misconceptions and stereotyping, I can see how people stereotype others because they are not like the same. Some people have not left their country or origin, the only thing they know about other people or culture different from there, is what they hear, read or get through the media. Hope we examine our own biases and preconceived notions through a media representation of another people or country and those that

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Just because stereotypes are placed on the extremely high class and the extreme low class, it doesn't mean that they can't go against the stereotype that’s placed on them. In the book The Outsider, by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy and his friends are greasers who struggle with lack of money. A typical greaser is a person that greasy hair, smokes, doesn't try in school, doesn't have a job, and will stay in one spot for the rest of their lives. The Socs consistently try to get into fights with them whenever they get the chance because they are from two different social classes. The Socs look down upon the greasers and think they're stupid, non emotional, and could never do something good.

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Over the past week, I was tasked to choose between one of two articles that all of the incoming freshman at Union County College in preparation for the up and coming school year. This decision will forever change the way the incoming students will do before stereotyping a certain race, religion, or sexual preference. One of the articles I had to choose from was called, “Don’t Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgments” By Robert L. Heilbroner, while the other one was called, “Black Men and Public Space” by Brent Staples. Both articles were somewhat similar in the fact that they both talk about how the typical person, in most situations, stereotype people in a bad or even a good way. The articles also talk and teach that stereotyping is bad and

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I would say "the others" in our society, as Americans, would be anything that resembles a Islamic person. Also, another example of "the others" in our society could be anyone that just isn't in the norm of our religion. People that look different such as Hindu's, Jews, or Tao people. The best way to treat something like this and figure out a way to stop the negative beliefs is to practice what you preach. Most religions have a golden rule or some sort of variation of it.

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According to Lippmann, “stereotypes are ‘pictures in our heads’ that we use to apprehend the world around us” (16). Stereotypes can be formed due to effects of media, as Wood describes media as pervasive, powerful and influential (31). Hence, stereotypes can be defined as inaccurate perceptions towards a group of people or community that is strongly influenced by the media. Whether positive or negative, stereotypes are usually false as they are formed based on personal judgments, which are biased or exaggerated. When stereotypes are consistently portrayed in media platforms, they subconsciously form and maintain assumed identities for the stereotyped groups.

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Life is a symphony composed of three distinct movements, a lot of people, a few people, and almost no one; each of them is affected by stereotypes. "Stereotypes may be defined as popular beliefs about specific social groups or types of individuals and are broadly standardized or simplified conceptions of groups based on some prior assumptions,"*Stereotypes are present an incomplete, subjective and sometimes false image of the reality. They are often based on traditions and are resistant to change. Although they can have positive and negative effects, ; the last is much more common and easily spread throughout social institutions, such as mass media, that which is using stereotypes, based on the assumption , that they are well known to everyone and help the receivers to understand the content of the message. Stereotypes have a negative effect when it published throughout the mass media.

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