Stereotypes On 'Okurrr, Ohness'

“Okurrr, Oh MY goodness. how yáll doing, I’m Sheneneh Jenkins, today I’mma be doing some talks for you folks about stereotypes. Nah, I’m just playing. Based on the character that I just portrayed, it is common that when most people meet me, they immediately think that I am loud, ghetto and ratchet as hell. As you all should hopefully know by now I am Ange Nishimwe, and unless you’re blond and have not come to the realisation, the topic that I would like to discuss with everyone is that of stereotypes. And weather or not stereoypes hinder us more than they help us? As stated by Oxford Dictionary, a stereotype is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified idea or image of a particular type of person or thing’ and ‘a person or thing that conforms

So if you think they do put your hand up. Thank you and if you think they don’t put your hand up. Now a small minority of scientist argue that stereotypes can be reliated upon with out reservation and are in fact rather accurate whilst a vast majority of others like Bargh vehemently disagree. As stated by Bargh "Even if there is a kernel of truth in the stereotype, you're still applying a generalization about a group to an individual, which is always incorrect.
Stereotypes can be helpful in that they act as a bit of an equaliser. No matter who you are, everyone is being generalised in both positive and negative ways. The positives aspect of stereotypes involve the fact that they can be useful in new situations, assist with quick judgement and enable us to remember information and characterstics of people. These aspects are all helpful in that with the limited amount of time we have in a day and the large amount of people there are, making stereotypes of others can act as an efficient way to categorize crows of

As seen in Scientific America, stereotyping affect the performance on specific task. The article summerizes research from the past few decades that show that when people are reminded of a negative stereotype they pertain to that identity and tend t do worse on a specific task. For instance, when female subjects were remined that “women are no good a maths”, they did worse at the math task, However when reminded of a positive stereotype, people in the stereotyped group did better at the task,
The participants in this research were Asian women. In different conditions of the studies they were required to focus on the fact either that they were women (who are stereotypically worse at math than men) or that they were Asian (stereotypically better at math than members of other ethnic groups). As in Beilock and her colleagues’ work, in the former case the women performed worse than they did when no group membership was made salient. Yet in the latter case they did