Definition:
A form of prejudice that can form damaging images of people because of a particular characteristic without having any knowledge of the person.
Characteristic:
Stereotypes are characteristics ascribed to groups of people involving gender, race, national origin and other factors. These characteristics tend to be oversimplifications of the groups involved.
Advantage or disadvantage:
Both negative and positive stereotypes exist, but even the latter do harm.
Example:
This particular child, however, suffers from a learning disability and struggles to keep up with his classmates in school. Because his teacher buys into the stereotype that this child is supposed to excel in class because “his people” are highly intelligent, she might assume that his poor marks are because he’s lazy and never do the investigative work needed to discover his learning disability, saving him from years of struggle in school.
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