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Stereotypes in the Current World
Recently; last Monday in fact, in West Hills, a man on a bus beat up a bus driver, and has not yet been caught by policemen. Newspeople announced on TV that he was Hispanic, and from LA. This is already where the stereotypes come in. What is the first thing you imagine when you hear "Hispanic" and/or "from Los Angeles"? You may usually think that he/she are "one of those gangsters" or a generally bad person. But no one is told of the specific details, for example, if someone told him/her to do it, or if something, i.e. a mental illness, as discussed in the mock trial last Friday. In conclusion, the truth about these stereotypes is that people start assuming things about accused suspects before they even get to know much about them. Sometimes they might even agree with their friends when they tell them about it, and rarely, with the majority of people who believe that the suspect is a horrible person, who should be punished with relocation, prison, or death.
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April 2015
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