Racial Stereotypes In To Kill A Mockingbird

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What needs to be done to stop the rational idea or unconscious bias? We all harbor one way or another this bias whether it's a gender stereotype racial stereotype or class stereotype. All these stereotypes in one way or another are in fact preconceived notions we were born with since the time we were taught to judge from right or wrong, pink for girls, blue for boys. They start in the womb and are taught to us at a very young age. Like the racial bias that the young kids of Maycomb are exposed to everyday. One example is an interaction between Scout and Jem, “Jem i ain’t ever heard of a nigger snowman,” Said Scout.
“He won’t be black for long,” Jem grunted. Just that simple interaction between the two characters prove how a connotation of