Stereotypes

When it comes to stereotypes, I feel that the majority of people do it. I might even do it myself without even realizing it or meaning to. This article mentioned that we don’t need to stop categorizing or generalizing people or things. At first I considered categorizing and stereotypes two different things, but once I began reading the article, I kind of began seeing some similarities. But I believe that those two words have different means and are used differently.

The article talks about categorizing and generalizing as a way to distinguish certain things, which is true. For example, we categorize male and female and we can even group them depending on age, but when it comes to stereotype, people usually go based of what they know and the actions or appearance of people. For example, someone might look at someone and based off the way they’re dressed, they can assume something and mentally categorize that person, and that’s where stereotyping begins.