Racial Stereotyping Students

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Stereotypes have always been around, since “Man” barely existed and learned to communicate.It is a natural instinct that kept us aware and alive, but it has been getting worse nowadays especially for teens. Through my research and my English class’s research, we have found out that the most encountered stereotypes are 1, Racial profiling of mexicans as lazy, soccer players, and not good at school. 2, Racial profiling of white people as people who love starbucks, dumb blondes, cannot do things for themselves, and very racist. 3,Racial profiling of black people as lazy, very big with making trouble and bad education.What i will talk about in this writing is how stereotypes affect people, mainly focusing on teens.
Stereotypes are always gonna be everywhere ruining someone’s day.For students at school however, they can mess up their whole career or future, or other students because of these unjust treatments. Stereotyping students like having glasses or doing homework makes them “uncool” and “smart” (in a bad way) is very senseless but it is what makes most kids try to change from those stereotypes,
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What ways can someone deal with this issue of stereotyping?After interviewing an RMHS student and other resources including www.reference.com, what they came up with as a solution to stereotyping include exposure to diversity, education on various social groups and awareness of the personal feelings and thoughts that affect actions and beliefs.We can change our school’s atmosphere if we exposed and educated students to be polite and open/ok with other people’s differences, slowly taking the time be fine about someone being white or black, smart, and dumb.The other problem is that it can scar/poison kids to have these stereotype beliefs when exposed to them watching news or some other program, and even can come from the parents. Shown after my examples of