Some Thoughts About Stereotype
In the story “The Myth of the Latin Woman”, Judith Ortiz Cofer discuss how she was treated by various people due to their conception of her as a Latin woman. Her strong theme discuss various stereotypes that Latin women are subjected to such as they are being viewed as uneducated, hot tamale, and labeled as submissive workers.
Judith Ortiz Cofer believes Latin women are stereotyped as xual firebrand becau of their dress. Clothing was always a big culture clash. She states that she learned to dress from her mother, “as young girls, it was our mother who had grown up on a tropical island, where the natural environment was a riot of primary colors, where showing your skin was one way to keep cool as well as to look xy.” In America, people think that Latin girls were colorful clothes and show a lot of skin becau they are prostitute or easy to get with. The author proves this is untrue after going to her first high school dance with a boy who tried to kiss her but she rejected.
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小学好词好句十二生肖出生年份表Americans are pushy and the English are rerved, right? Wrong, says a new study, which reveals there is no truth in this sort of Cultural stereotypes. There was no correlation between perceived cultural characteristics and the actual traits. The stereotypes focus our attention on some certain features , which is not good at understanding one culture comprehensively .When we walk on the street, for instance, just to get to a certain address, we may not be able to tell how many barber shops we pasd during our journey. However, if we walk on the same street to find one, our attention is tuned to e the barbershops' signs. Cultural stereotypes work in the same way: they focus our attention on certain features, and amplify them in our obrvation. In this way, we e what we are taught to e, and at the same time our obrvations also c
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棒槌岛In the article, the author mentions one facet of the myth of the Latin woman in the United States is the menial, the domestic. The myth of the Hispanic menial – the funny maid, mispronouncing words and cooking up a spicy storm in a shiny California kitchen – has been perpetuated by the media in the same way that “Mammy” from 霜天红叶Gone with the Wind became America’s idea of the black woman for generations. So when the author took her first public poetry reading at a restaurant in Miami, she was mistreated as a waitress becau she was a Latin girl, and Latin girl are treated as uneducated.
一东笠翁对韵The less we know about the other, the more we hang on stereotypes. If the stereotype is well-grounded and justifiable it may help to orient onelf in a certain situation. Stereotypes are only offensive when they are perceived as being negative. For example: How many times have you ever heard a black man stand up and angrily deny that all black men have huge penis? That statement is a stereotype, but I don't hear anyone complaining about it. There are other stereotypes that are accepted and even repeated b相信不相信
y the very group being targeted. Chine are hard workers, Swedish women are beautiful, Italian women are excellent cooks, Black women are strong, Bi-xual women make better lovers and so on. But if it is unjust and loaded with negative emotions, it will harm the interaction without question, and also often results from, and leads to, prejudice. Some groups in society -- such as blacks, women, Jews, gays and lesbians -- have all experienced the effects of negative stereotyping and lack of positive images. The Americans looked down on the blacks. In the university classroom, the professor said,” the Black men’s IQ is clearly lower than the White’s…” Among the 250 person on the spot, Rice, the only black stood up excitedly,” This is no scientific basis. The Black do as hard as the White. We can do what the white can.” With father’s studious edification, Rice becomes the first black female cretary of state in American, who is full of n of calling to defend the color lf-esteem. Her success is so inspiring to the people who are striving to eliminate the prejudice. When we break through the prejudice to love our own skin color, gender and so on, we should improve ourlves more hard, and show our ability to the world, to prove tho stereotypes are so ridiculous.
Why we stereotype? The following three points are important. First, the field of view. From the time that we are very young children, human beings are constantly striving to process the world around us. We struggle to put things into some type of order, and to e the world in a way that makes n to us. Imagine a preschooler playing with a t of blocks. He may put all of the blue blocks in one pile and the red ones in another. He may also sort the blocks by their shape or size. Throughout our lives, from the earliest years on, we classify people by the same sorts of criteria; boys and girls, adults and kids, fat and thin, tall and short. As we go through life, whether consciously or subconsciously, we are struggling to make n of the people, places and things around us.The question is that most people’s views are limited. We all know that the less variety of input that a person receives early in life, and the less experience they have with any other people group, the more likely they will be to develop a stereotype. Additionally, when a person with limited experience with any other group of people has a negative experience with that group first, they are far more likely to apply a stereotype to all people who fall into that group.
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But why our views are so limited? As far as I am concerned, the education system and ourlves should pay the great responsibility. As for education, there are still some disadvantages in it. The main question is that people are always pursuing the marks, and always pursue the knowledge utilitarian. Every teacher and parent would say," do your basic education and go to the best university". But what will they do after graduate from school? Seldom gives answers to this question. In Chine high schools, students study very crazily. They study more than twelve every day! They live in the school and never watch TV, read the newspaper or play computer games. Students never really have a hobby. If you ask them for what are their hobbies, 99% of them will say, I like music, sports and reading. But most of them don't know the difference between jazz and blues. On the other side, the content of education is definitely imperfect, we should learn many things by own if we want to understand the world deeply. In the history class, for instance, teacher taught us about the African for its geographic position, climate condition, the poor conditions they face and so on. A picture in the book describes many African children, some are as thin as rails, and some are big-stomached, not becau good eating but hav
德州学院图书馆e no way to eat clean food. They impress me the poverty only. The same as many others, for African, my initial impression comes from the wild animal and the virgin forest and grassland they live in <<animal world>>. All things there ems linking with the original, barbarous, and mysterious. Later, in my mind, Africa has become a war, riot, dirty and frightening infectious dias. Then, I know that the mysterious pyramids of Egypt, gold and diamonds in South Africa and exotic tribal culture of Kan Bali…If I don’t read more about African mylf, I still stereotype a poor place.
