Stereotypes are in the world all around us. In film, TV, books, and in everyday life stereotypes are all around us. A stereotype is defined, at dictionary.com as a conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, image, or conforming to a set image or type. Well what does that mean? Basically what that is saying is that on an everyday basis similar groups of people are categorized by such factors as race, color, age, what they wear, how they act ect. The reason that many stereotypes are wrong is because of how oversimplified they are. Stereotypes chose one aspect of a person or group and link them all together. Many people take offense to being put into a specific stereotype because they do not express the way a person is personally. It is assumed that all people in a specific stereotype, act the same way, look the same way, talk the same way, ect.
             An example I choose to illustrate stereotypes, is that of Native Americans. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a Native American? Or wait; is Indians a better name to describe them? I'll tell you what comes to my mind when I hear either of these words. Dark skin, dark haired people, wearing a headdress and moccasins. "How" is the word they use most, and they are usually chasing the "white man" off their land with bows and arrows. Or sitting in a circle around a fire smoking a piece pipe. Why are these, the first things that come to mind? Well, this is a stereotype. This is my preformed thought, that all Native Americans must look and act this way. Now this certainly is not how they are in the real world, but this is the way they have been depicted for years and years.
             Typical stereotypes of Native Americans are seen in everyday life. A major example of this is seen in sports teams such as, the Redskins, the Indians, the redmen, ect. Syracuse's mascot at one time was also a stereotypical Nat...