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Stereotypes In Society

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Society has become blind to racism slurs and appearances in ways we don’t understand. That affects many people here in America for example, Africans are highly considered black with HIV as Arabs are presented as Muslim and made the AK-47 the pop icon it is today.
“People tend to think that stereotypes are honest reflections of what they see in the world. But instead, they often shape how we see the world and how we metabolize the data in front of us” (Demby4). The way people look at you know matter what color you are now days people are racist. Stereotypes enhance people’s lives, while at the same time inhibiting them. This generation is blind towards racism the world looks at us differently then what we really are. Society says Africans are

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