Stereotypes- Definitional Essay
"Dumb jocks", "Women don't belong in a professional setting, they belong in the kitchen", "He must be a Jew, just look at his nose." Our society is based solely on face values where we tend to place someone in a category because of his or her actions. Prejudicial notations used to define members of a social or ethnic group are called stereotypes. We stereotype various groups of people, but none like women, different ethnic groups, and athletes.We typically stereotype women on the job. Women normally are associated with jobs such as nurses, secretaries, and tailors. These are jobs in which most people would label as a tender loving care job, which requires a woman's touch. Women are rarely associated with the titles of a Doctor, Lawyer, or CEO of a company. On occasion, when women are given positions of power, they are viewed as being power hungry and male bashers. Male co-workers would be constantly put down by their superior, who in this case would be a woman, because the woman had to struggle through life trying to make it in a man's world, or so the stereotype says. In the home, women have certain household chores, that have been naturally assigned to them:
Professional Basketball, Football, and Baseball players have been the victims of some harsh stereotypes in the past few years. Hearing the public stereotype professional athletes as being dumb is not uncommon. It is a misconception, to many people, that athletes are uneducated. The majority of professional athletes have been educated at well-known colleges and universities, before they ever made it into the professional teams. A popular misconception is that the educations they did earn were majors in areas such as Liberal Arts, or other general fields of study which would not have challenge an athlete's mental abilities. Another stereotype is that pro athletes received special treatment while in college; if an athlete needed a certain grade to remain eligible to play sports, then the faculty graded him or her easier than the rest of the class. Recently, possibly due to the media, the public viewed many professional athletes as being immune to rules, laws, and regulations. There have been incidents where athletes were let off the hook with a slap on the wrist, when a normal American citizen would have been locked up and Stereotypes are products of our own indivi
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Lawyer CEO, Liberal Arts, , African Americans, Football Baseball, professional athletes, gang activity, african americans,
Approximate Word count = 794
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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