Stereotypes can cause people in society to fix or generalize a belief about a particular group or class of people. A stereotype however can often make people judge others or something based on their preference. Biases lead to stereotypes and these biases can be formed consciously or unconsciously. For an example, a stereotype that is popular is “all black people listen to rap music only. This stereotype is negative in numerous of ways such as being racist.”
In the article Stereotypes, Saul McLeod stated “By stereotyping we infer that a person has a whole range of characteristics and abilities that we assume all members of that group have. Stereotypes lead to social categorization, which is one of the reasons for prejudice attitudes which leads
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Especially a couple of quotes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie stated that grabbed listener’s attention. Number one being “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” This is very true, when many people or children are revealed to one story, they believe that story to be true. Regardless of the fact that it’s true or not, the story becomes true to them. Where it’s safe to say they are believing in an incomplete story unknown to them. Leading to another quote “We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too much. Otherwise, you would threaten the man.” It’s the same as men are seen to overpower woman. The stereotype where woman is seen as weak individuals in society. Men will always over power woman, they say women can progress to where they are, but in notice they didn’t say woman can progress over them. In other words woman will always be below men. The last quote she mentioned was “Dear- Non American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I’m Jamaican or I’m Ghanaian. America doesn’t care.” Many Haitians and Jamaicans get offended when people associates them as being black. In