In class this week we talked about race and the various stereotypes associated with different ethnic groups. A stereotype is a image or description that one group or groups of people give a different group of people that are a different race or ethnicity. A stereotype can either be positive or negative. Every race has its own stereotypes that are associated with it. For example the terms druggies and criminals are all stereotypes that people give to blacks. One stereotype that most people would associate with black people is that they are all athletic. Stereotypes can pretty much be any image that one race sees a different race or ethnicity. Most people associate stereotypes with negative images or description. Some stereotypes are given to races because of how some members of their race act or present themselves. An example of this would be the song Young Wild and Free by Wiz Khalifa. The song is about doing drugs and living a good life. People hear songs like this and that's why they put these stereotypes on certain races. These types of stereotypes are not fair to everyone that is in the race that is being stereotyped but thats how our culture works and how people associate stereotypes to certain groups.
I have listed the link to the below to the song incase you have never heard it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa5B22KAkEk
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