2. Stereotyping

Stereotyping is exaggerated generalizations associated with a categorizing system, they go beyond the facts at hand and make claims that usually have no valid basis. Is is also something that most people find difficult to avoid from doing. What do you think?

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Stereotyping is somewhat a norm in every country and culture. In Malaysia, we categorize each race with a specific attitude or image. We also tend to categorize each person based on where they come from. Many believe that Chinese dress in a specific way, Indians act a certain way, all Malay thinking are alike and every other stereotyping tendencies. No one is excepted in this tendency.

I honestly believe that stereotyping cannot be avoided. I myself have the tendency to stereotype a person or a group of people. Although I must say that nobody is ever always on point when they stereotype. 

Many instances, people who stereotype are proven wrong. Just because a person is from that certain place or that certain race, it does not mean that they are exactly like the majority of where they come from. Easy said, an individual is exactly that - an individual. Therefore, they do not entirely fit into the exaggerated generalizations because they are who they are, not where they come from. 

The video above is an example of stereotyping. Just because they come from a certain place or look a certain way, they really are merely an individual that do not necessarily belong to the categories we stereotype them into. 

Therefore, I believe that stereotyping cannot be avoided by anyone but we must realise that we can always be proven wrong.