Stereotypes In The Workplace
In today’s society, many look at successful business owners and see them as greedy, selfish, and overall have a bad image of them. These days people tend to believe the stereotypes of people instead of fact checking these allegations towards them. The reason these stereotypes exist in groups of people is due to the fact that a small portion of that group do/act in a way that is blown all over social media, television, and the internet overall. For example is news breaks out that a company that focus on the production of products underpay their workers they give the whole industry a bad label. Which makes it harder for companies to maintain credibility of their strives for good pay and good working conditions due to bad publicity from the competitors.
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An example of a misconception would be that the Great Wall of China can be seen from space, it's been proven that in fact that with the naked eye it is not visible due to the fact that it's too narrow. That kind of misconception is widely believed by the grand majority of people, although not factual it perceives as the truth because it has been ingrained into people as the truth due to its popularity. Stereotypes are similar to misconceptions except that they are partially true. In About Men by Gretel Ehrlich she explains the truth about the cowboy attitude, cowboys attitude compared to the stereotypes that are believed due to the way they were portrayed in western films and Marlboro advertisements. “If he’s “strong and silent” it’s because there’s probably no one to talk to” (Ehrlich). During the time period where western films were very popular the image of a cowboy was portrayed differently than it actually was to make it more interesting for the film. Typically in the films they were seen as strong, silent, rough around the edges and the reason that they portrayed this way was to romanticize them to make the movie more interesting. This is a reason why some stereotypes are created to basically benefit a story of a film/book, and in these cases when they make a stereotype others
An example of a misconception would be that the Great Wall of China can be seen from space, it's been proven that in fact that with the naked eye it is not visible due to the fact that it's too narrow. That kind of misconception is widely believed by the grand majority of people, although not factual it perceives as the truth because it has been ingrained into people as the truth due to its popularity. Stereotypes are similar to misconceptions except that they are partially true. In About Men by Gretel Ehrlich she explains the truth about the cowboy attitude, cowboys attitude compared to the stereotypes that are believed due to the way they were portrayed in western films and Marlboro advertisements. “If he’s “strong and silent” it’s because there’s probably no one to talk to” (Ehrlich). During the time period where western films were very popular the image of a cowboy was portrayed differently than it actually was to make it more interesting for the film. Typically in the films they were seen as strong, silent, rough around the edges and the reason that they portrayed this way was to romanticize them to make the movie more interesting. This is a reason why some stereotypes are created to basically benefit a story of a film/book, and in these cases when they make a stereotype others