Stereotypes

Stereotyping is a factor that all humans live with throughout their lives. They stereotype, while being stereotyped. Stereotypes can be created by one's race, gender, age, religion, actions, and a variety of other aspects. Questions that make people wonder how stereotypes arouse can be such questions like "What factors contribute to such prejudice and how?" Hearing different stereotypes at school, at work, on television, from parents, from society, all contribute in one's prejudice opinions. If a friend, peer, favorite television actor, or parent makes a remark about a specific group of people, that statement can stay in one's mind and create such an opinion on the specific group. The next time that person sees one of the same group, he or she will remember the remark and connect it to a person of the same group.
     Another question that can arouse about stereotyping can be "What can you change in your own life to overcome habits of stereotyping?" One cannot judge one person based on a remark about someone from the same group. If one wants to avoid habits of stereotyping, he or she should not allow generalization to affect him or her, and must understand a person for whom he or she is, before judging based on what another one of the same group is like. Everyone around the world is equal and created the same way and in this world for a specific purpose. Stereotyping is wrong and everyone should be classified as one whole, not separate groups.