A Stereotyping Society

The four texts The Story of an Hour, Typecast as a Terrorist, How to sleep at night when families are being separated at the border, and Station Eleven all talk about challenge something wrong in society. The Story of an Hour challenges general roles that existed in the mid 1960s. Typecast as a Terrorist challenges Hollywood and airport stereotypes. How to sleep at night when families are being separated at the border challenges illegal border crossing stereotypes. Station Eleven challenges our perception of who we think are wrong. Stereotyping still exists today in our society. It has the power to hold sway over the masses - especially if the masses are ignorant. The problem with stereotyping is that usually that the reputation of a minority in a group is projected onto the majority in a group. If the minority in a group is guilty of theft, people will believe that the whole group is guilty of theft. If the minority in a group is kind hearted, people will believe that the whole group is kind hearted (less likely).

Stereotyping can have some positive effects, but as humans, we tend to only remember the bad things that happen. Because of this, we tend to only project negative stereotypes onto people. Yes, if the minority is committing illegal acts, they should be punished for it. But, this does not mean that the rest of the innocent people need to suffer for it. So is stereotyping something we can prevent? I don’t think that it can be completely eradicated. As humans we will always have a bias, however slight, towards anything. From things that are completely subjective, like what your favourite colour is, to things that are a lot more objective, like whether or not vaccinations cause autism in children. I think the best way to prevent stereotyping would be proper education about a topic and learning the truth about issues in the world big or small.

These three text attempt to educate us on their stereotyping issues very differently. The Story of an Hour, handles it by creating a very controversial piece of literature (at the time) to challenge the readers while potentially suffering censorship from publishers. The author Kate Chopin probably knew that there was a chance that her short story would not be published because of its level of controversy. Typecast as a Terrorist, approaches stereotypes by writing a bit of comedy into this serious topic in order to soften the parts where we feel sorry for him most. Riz Ahmed uses the comedy to give us hope to change the stereotype despite the suffering that he had to go through. How to sleep at night when families are being separated at the border takes yet another approach by being the devil’s advocate. The author of this news article, Alexandra Petri, gives immoral reasons to ignore the issue in order that we might see the truth behind separated families at the border. Station Eleven, talks about the Prophet’s goals to save the world. From the outside, it might seem like something fake that is used to hide the real intents of the cult. I think that, although, the cult’s motive’s were not for ill intention, but it actually gave hope to his followers. I believe that Tyler really thought that he was going to save the world. We would have seen the Prophet order the deaths of his captives, but instead all he wanted to do was trade for what he presumed was a kidnapping. We stereotype people who believe they are right as crazy people (even when they might be).

Is "Crazy Rich Asians" a stereotype?

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