Learning Stereotypes: A World Around Children

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary stereotype is:”to believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same”. An example is say that all Mexicans are bad, or that all Cubans are crazies. Of course this is not true; there are good and bad people everywhere, no matter race, culture or believe.

From third grade until my first year of high school I attended a private school. Trinity Christian school, a predominantly protestant school, (while still accepting of catholics and other denominations of christianity) also was attended by a vast majority of white students. There were, however, multiple people of color in my class that I made friends with: A Filipino kid by the name of Joven, and two African American kids, Deantre and Cortez. They were very nice people, and I’m glad to have met them. They were smart, compassionate, and funny in their own ways. They were my starting exposure to people of color, and I’m glad I met such good people. I had only experienced stereotypes and racism through the news and the internet at my relatively young age, never experienced them first hand.

In helping to minimize students being in the hallways, skipping, and missed instructional time, please accept all students into your classroom who are late and mark them tardy. If a student is more than half the period late, and you feel they were skipping please write a referral. Please do not lock students out of your class or send them to SAO for a pass, unless we are having a Tardy Sweep. This will help to minimize students being in the hallways and skipping. We do address tardies with students on a regular basis. Thanks for your understanding and support regarding this matter.

The models of this picture are the teenage boy and girl sitting in a classroom. The faces these two are making are priceless and are one of the top elements on making this photo funny. The fact that he is trying so hard to hold something in that the veins in his face are popping out is so ridiculous that it is funny. Also the girls facial expression helps the situation in the picture because she looks so mean and intimidating. It almost looks as if the boy in holding in something so he doesn't make a fool of himself in front of her. With the situation, the two are in it makes the photo relatable using social media and everyday occurrences.

Racism has been an issue for many years, it started from the beginning of mankind before people started traveling and exploring the world, it's natural for humans to abhor what they aren't familiar with, especially when it's found in other human beings. Racism is easily taught when children are the ones being informed, because of their unawareness towards the world, they can easily pick up on the adult behavior around them. Children pick up on what they see and act upon it, and racism is just one of many examples of that. Racism has been created socially, mostly by people who aren't aware or fail to acknowledge the different nationalities that this world has, Discrimination can only be avoided, starting with the root of the problem.

Culture compared to race and racial stereotypes in childhood years. Children are taught the stereotypes that go along with their races. There is a term such as stereotype threat; in which a child experiences anxiety or concern in a situation that has the potential to confirm a negative stereotype about his or her social group. For example, when I was in grade school, I moved about three times. Equaling out to three grade schools full of other students who didn’t know much about culture. Throughout those years, the clueless students always made fun of me and called me Mulan endlessly. Culture, therefore influences the manner we learn, live and behave. Because of this many theorists believe that culture is an important shaper of our personality.

When I think about New York I think of happiness. Loud, busy, fast paced, happiness. Being from New York I considered myself and everyone else in my family to be a New Yorker. According to Oxford English Dictionary being a New York refers to a person who was born or lives in New York. I was not born in New York, but I was raised there for a lot of my childhood. Plus all of my sisters and father were born there, and a lot of my extended family still live there. The state of New York has always seemed like a perfect home to me; although, a lot of outsiders do not see it as perfect.

More and more children each year are being raised by single-parents. Majority of people would think single parents would have a tougher time to provide for their family. In most cases this is true, it is a financial struggle to raise children alone. There are exceptions with other single-parenting families that have had enough income to provide for the family. In other cases, the situation is stressful based on income, family support, or lack of either. It is especially more difficult when the mother or father is a teen themselves. In the book it talks about the percentage of children living with one parent is rising to 27.5 percent. Some teenage parents or parent think that by having a child they may provide motivation and purpose for the

We have done research at our school that supports the idea that many people experience stereotypes, and are affected by them. Author and Scientific Journalist, Shankar Vedantam, in his article “How a Self-Fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance,” Explains that If people are stereotyped, they can start to embody the stereotypes made about them without realizing it, which could lead to a degradation in their performance, because of the negative self image caused by these stereotypes. He supports this claim by giving a few real world examples of surveys and tests taken on african-americans and people of different races, all of the people who took these tests had one thing in common, they were all victims of intelligence stereotypes. He goes on to explain how these subjects performed worse on the same tests they had taken before, after being reminded of their race by the researchers giving them the test. Vedantam’s purpose in this article is to inform people of the major consequences that stereotyping can have on people’s self image, and how this can lead to their performance taking a turn for the worse, I believe that by writing this article, Vedantam was taking a serious issue in society today, and looking at it from a scientific perspective to attain more clear idea of what is causing it.

In my country, women are not important and are not placed in influential positions, thus, being there would have deprived me of getting an education that would satiate my hunger for knowledge and wisdom, the hunger to be something and help the world better itself. As a woman, I would like to be an engineer and break all stereotypes that restrict women from pursuing an education in math. I was born in Iraq, the country of war, and within that country, women are meant for childbirth and care giving. There was no chance at an education that empowered women in the math field, or a male dominant field. During the time that I lived there, which was during the American-Iraq war, an opportunity for education was even tougher to chase after due to the danger that lied within the country. Although I was an

Every child is unique. One can never script what a child is going to say next. We all have our own representation of what a child is. My image of a child is different from others in my generation, different then current teachers and as a society, individuals have a different view of children. My view of children comes from my experiences, views, beliefs. These same ideas are used by others throughout the world. Everyone sees a child from their point a view and that is where our images of children differ.

In today's world stereotypes are a very big and prevailing problem and bring down a lot of people and their performance in life, many studies conducted show similarities across the board. Stereotypes are everywhere at school and out of school in movies and books. I personally hate stereotypes. I dislike the fact that people think I should act one way because of my sex, race personality, or Nationality.

In order to determine whether or not stereotypes have an impact on a child’s development, we must look at the roots at which their ideas on gender develop. At the age of two, toddlers will begin to use stereotypes during play; girls are to play with “feminine” toys and boys “masculine” toys. This raises the question; where do children learn stereotypes? Stereotypes are mainly influenced by parents or guardians, who they themselves have ideas on what gender is, all taught by societal standards we seem to uphold. They choose what is appropriate for girls and boys to wear, play with, watch, participate in, and act. All these things begin to influence a child’s interests and choices. Children are also influenced by their peers. Gender

The world is found to be more complex than what the stereotypes suggest. A stereotype is an oversimplified conception that is put on someone because of their style, gender, and all the other categories that exist. Stereotypes play a major role in the social world because they are used to simplify the thinking of one when meeting a new person. People are much deeper than the label they are given. Stereotypes exist because judging someone is much easier than getting to actually have a conversation together and bond.

Stereotypes shouldn’t be used because they are unfair,harmful to a human’s well being,and they are used too often.Though some people use stereotypes in their everyday life.Sometimes they get stale and soon enough everybody will know what every single stereotype is .