Shankar Vedantam Stereotypes

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How is a stereotype defected ? Shankar Vedantam who wrote Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance on February 02, 2009 that he discusses about how it is a defected thing to stereotype . Stereotype is a widely fixed and oversimplified image or idea. A time when I was stereotype was when I was doing badly at school.

The time I got stereotyped was last year because People would tell me that because I am Mexican I am not going to graduate high school. They say that all Mexicans are worthless and don't amount to anything like graduating high school. people also say that Mexicans always work for white people.

When I got stereotype I felt really upset about what I had told me. I was about to give up school because I