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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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11/25/2014 01:36:38 am
I agree with your insight on this article. Based on what you said I agree that people just assume that if you are from Los Angeles or if you are Hispanic you are some kind of gangster or thug and that's not necessarily true.
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11/25/2014 01:41:26 am
It's not his fault. He didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose him.
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Daniel
11/25/2014 01:43:17 am
I think that this is more a problem with people's perceptions than the news really. In reality, whenever a criminal is on the loose, his/her description and general location is disclosed so that people may look out for him/her. In this case, it happened to be Hispanic and from LA. The problem starts in people's minds in which they connect the two to form a stereotype. That is the hardest part to fix.
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11/25/2014 01:44:57 am
I agree that there is a well known stereotype that hispanic people are mostly gangsters and are dangerous people. This also relates to my blog post that most people believe that African Americans are dangerous and violent people which is portrayed in some videogames.
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