5 th entry: Stereotyping

Stereotyping is exaggerated generalizations associated with a categorizing system,they go beyond the facts at hand and make claims that usually have no valid basis.It is also something that most people find difficult to avoid from doing. What do you think?

       Stereotyping is the way on how we view someone or make the judgement towards someone or any group without we know them. Stereotype can happen anytime and anywhere such as at the workplace, stereotype about someone abilities and usually happened to someone that we first time meet or based on our first impressions.As cited in Pearson et al,"the first impression are based on other people's appearance and may occur in as little as 3 seconds (Sterling,2006) . I think and agree that stereotype is the most people find difficult to avoid from doing it. This is because, we are born in the different background ,gender,race,age and even have the different color of skin. We are attracted to judge something which is different from us. This stereotype have the positive and negative side.Besides it also can lead to the prejudice and not all the thing that we predict about someone is true.

       I also stereotype of person.For example, I always thought that the bookworm is a boring type of a person. But who knows the person that I  thought as a boring person always help me when I have problem in my studying. This situation shown that stereotype is something that we cannot be predict and sometime we can make a wrong judgments or assumptions about someone.Last but not least, I think that there are the ways that we can do in the way to avoid stereotype like try to list a specific stereotype that you want to avoid. But what is the most important thing is, stereotype is difficult to avoid from doing it because it have been a part of human behavior and it is take time to change it. Thank you.

References:

Pearson et al, 2011, Human Communication,fourth edition,McGraw-Hill Education