Preview

Stereotypes: Racial And Social Theories

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
453 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Stereotypes: Racial And Social Theories
My belief is that everyone deserves to be respected treated equally despite their skin color, social class or sexual orientation. We should simply treat people the way we want to be treated. People would treat others with disrespect and … based solely on their appearance, without thinking twice how it would feel if that same attitude would be redirected at them. The two theories that have impacted my beliefs the most are social and race theories.People are constantly being mistreated on petty things such as how old someone is or skin color. I believe that those are not legitimate reasons to judge another human being.

I remember winter break of 2013 when I stayed over at my brothers house in West Seattle. He he needed to get something from the corner store so I tagged along. All is well at the moment. I notice the cashier staring at me. As me and my brother go to the cash register I continue to notice the cashier staring at me. As he pays for his items, I zone out while staring at the counter. As he notices me looking at the counter he comes to the conclusion that I was about to steal. Me not knowing what's
…show more content…
Agism is being prejudice on the basis of someone's age. That's a part of what happened………...

As I said previously. I strongly believe on the fact that everybody deserves respect and the worker showed me everything but respect.Accused me a crime I did not commit and kicked me out the store threatening me to call the police. I believe this is an example of race oppression. I'm guessing the assumed norm is white and I didn't meet that criteria which led to the worker attacking me and going off on the basic stereotype that i was going to steal since I was an African American.

Throughout my young life I experienced a couple situations similar to the one at the corner store, therefore I know how hurtful it is when grown folks follow common

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    As the ear screeching streak of masking tape was stretched across the large U-Haul box, Ava Bibergal situated the last item from the place she collected her college memories into the trunk of her parent’s car. With the end of her undergraduate career Bibergal is saying goodbye to her life of professors, papers, and the prospering spirit of Chicago as she moves back home with her parents to Cedar Rapids, Iowa.…

    • 547 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    I believe that the thought of one race being superior to another is extremely backwards and crazy, no matter what race we are talking about. Everybody is different in one way or another, and to persecute somebody because they do not look the same as you do or have the same culture as you do is absurd and…

    • 255 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Senior Memory Book Report

    • 567 Words
    • 3 Pages

    What started off as a normal day in the small Lakes Region town of Gilford New Hampshire quickly turned into a test of my ability to make the right choices and into a test of my moral rightfulness as well a judgment of my good character: It was a humid mid-August day in the Granite State; I was 14 years-old and was spending the weekend at my aunt and uncles house in Gilford. The day started like any other; my aunt and uncles morning shuffling woke me around eight o’clock and I went down stairs to find my cousin, Tyler, sitting at the breakfast with the ever-present Dunkin Donuts box open in front of him. I sat down and took my usual strawberry frosted donut. Upon taking a bite of that strawberry goodness, I asked…

    • 567 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Stereotypes and Prejudice

    • 692 Words
    • 3 Pages

    |Age |Lacks concentration and focus |Lacks professionalism (younger) |Want more money for less work just|…

    • 692 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    It was on a Friday night at 3 a.m. A man that was in his early 30’s walks in while I was ringing up a customer at the cash register, wearing nothing but a towel around his waist. The man seemed to be from the Middle Eastern because of his thick beard and accent. It took him 10 minutes to rome around the store to get what he needs. While he was shopping he left everything he needed on top of the counter, and in those 10 minutes he got so many things. He bought 2 gallons of milk, 2 boxes of cereal, half a dozen donuts, and dozens of candy bars, baby lotion, Advil, and a 30 dollar lottery ticket scratcher. At first when he was ready to pay I asked why he came inside a the store wearing nothing but a towel, and he replied saying that all his clothes were dirty and his wife gave him a list of things to get for him. He made her seem like if she was very demanding and he practically had no choice but to come and get the aarons. This was a norm violation because the man was out and about in a public place wearing nothing but a towel around his waist. It is expected especially men at his age to dress appropriately when being out in public. This falls under folkways because he was not dresses…

    • 1145 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    False Racial Stereotypes

    • 1266 Words
    • 6 Pages

    "When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised." -James A. Forbes…

    • 1266 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The topics that I intend to research are some stereotypes associated with race. Also, how these stereotypes are portrayed through the consumption of children’s products. I intend to argue a point in my research paper that race is not associated with biological features, but through consumerism it is constantly associated with them. I intend to research the typical stereotypes types associated with the Hispanic, Black, White, and Oriental races. My focuses in this research paper are the toy manufacturers of Barbie and American girl.…

    • 310 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Shoplifting is a major problem in today’s world. I myself was recently caught shoplifting and now I have to face the consequences for the bad mistake I made. The temptation of not paying for something is very big factor in why people steal. The shoplifter thinks he is getting a product for free and doesn't know what he's really doing to himself and the community. Shoplifting affects yourself, your local neighborhood and the world population.…

    • 970 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    I believe that the world would be a better place if more people realized that the actions of a few do not define an entire group of people.…

    • 412 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    A common practice among some teenagers these days is shoplifting. Some people get caught and others don't. But most people don't realize all the effects of their actions, all of which are negative to others and themselves. Some of these effects cause problems emotionally with parents and the person charged, with friends, and a lot of complications to the justice system. Shoplifting also affects people that the accused doesn't even know and causes a ripple affect for months after the crime is committed. Teenagers aren't the only people who practice in this act either; there are also adults and a select number of children who do as well.…

    • 592 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Im sitting in the back office at Dollar General on my lunch break at work and it is far removed from the rest of the store and it is completely silent, on the desk immediately to the right through the door is our CCTV monitor. I like to watch the people as if it were a show because it is never the same. On this particular day two homeless teenagers walked in and having encountered them earlier that day I knew that they smelled like they haven’t showered in months. They were coming in to buy cigarettes but the younger one was not eighteen and the older one was, so He bought them, and they did this twice before entering for the last time that day. After the second time they walked in I decided to follow them on the CCTV. Right when they walked…

    • 519 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Stereotypes In America

    • 474 Words
    • 2 Pages

    America is a country with cultural diversity and different ethnics; therefore, there must be serious conflicts due to differences in cultures. In other words, these differences and conflicts have gradually created stereotypes within people, especially within Americans who consider themselves superiority and people from Asia, Mexico, Africa, etc. who are considered as inferiority. These have been perpetuated in popular culture including film, TV, advertising, music, and consumer products. “Film and television have been notorious in disseminating images of racial minorities which establish for audiences what these groups look like, how they behave, and, in essence, “who they are.”” (qtd. in Signs of Life in the USA 542). In fact, Americans are…

    • 474 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Racial Stereotypes

    • 1624 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Racial prejudice was defined by Allport , one of the first researchers in psychology to investigate the issue, as "an aversive or hostile attitude towards a person who belongs to a group, simply because he or she belongs to that group, and is therefore presumed to have the objectionable qualities ascribed to that group. It is an antipathy based on a faulty and inflexible generalization" (Allport, 1954).…

    • 1624 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    I was hanging out after school with a couple of my friends just listening to music like any afternoon. I was getting kind of bored so I got on my phone and went on Instagram. While scrolling down through endless amounts of pictures I stumbled on a video that was about Donald Trump. The clip that I saw included Donald Trump and a mexican news reporter. SInce it wasn’t the full clip I decided I would watch the clip when I got home. It was too of an interesting video not to watch and I bet I would be able to find the clip easily on Youtube.…

    • 807 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Measure twice cut once.

    • 817 Words
    • 2 Pages

    I learned the hard way. My life was going good. I had decent grades at school, my family was getting along, and one Friday evening me and my older brother were running an errand for my mom. She was working at our Church doing some things with some of the other ladies of the church to help out for Sunday morning. She told us to pick up a pizza at Wal-mart and head to the house, so me and my brother got in his car and headed to Wal-mart. When we got there we went straight for the auto. accessories like we always do when we go toWal-mart. When we got over there my big brother was looking around and I was just tagging along so I said, "Lets get the pizzas and go" he said, "ok" reluctantly. So we went and got the pizzas and was headed to the checkout line and he said . "lets go back to the auto. Section for a minute." I said ok and went with him, when we got there he went straight back to the section where we were at before and picked up some tire-flies and began to open them. I said, "what the heck are you doing?" and he said, "I'm not paying ten dollars for these things" so he stuffed them in his pocket and put the package back on the shelf. I had a bad feeling about what was happening, so I said, "lets go."and as we were headed to the checkout line I had an overwhelming sensation of curiosity so I picked up a tube of candy and was planning on purchasing it and when I picked it up my hand went straight into my pocket. When my brother payed for the pizzas we were on our way out the door when two undercover police men walked up in front of us and said, "we want our stuff back" and put us in hand cuffs after we gave them the stuff we…

    • 817 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays