The dictionary defines stereotype as an oversimplified or conventional image of a certain person, group, issue, or the like, which is usually held in common by some segment of society. Some of these stereotypes may be positive toward a group, whereas others are put down on certain group of people. For instance, Irish people are drunks, Asians are smart in school, Blacks are athletics, Caucasians can't dance, Mexicans are gardeners, and Arabians works at 7-Elevan. All these stereotypes may start for some at one point upon a time ago, and now it becomes apart of society. People cannot deny that they have never stereotype another group, because even at a time when they consciously do not know that they are saying it, in reality they are stating a stereotype. Some people use stereotype for the entertainment that it is funny and they can joke about it, while others use it to hurt someone else.
Stereotype at many times is use to hurt people's feeling. I remember about five years ago, I was in the eight grade. I took a conflict management class to help other students in my middle school resolve their problems between other students when there is a conflict that occur. If they agree to solve their conflict and promise that the conflict does not occur again, then they will not get in trouble. On one particular day at school, I was call up to the vice-principal's office. The vice-principal explains to me that two
students were going to get into a fistfight. My job was to talk to the two students to see if they can resolve this problem. If so both of them will not be suspended from school. Before I talked to both of the boys I made them sign a contract stating that this was confidential and everything that is going to be said should not leave this room. I talk with Henry first. He seem as if he did not want to participate, and everything that I was asking him, he answered me a yes, no, or I don
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