What is wrong with stereotyping?

            Basically, human have different perception towards the others.  It is depend on the variety of races, religions, ages, and also believe. Therefore, human might judge other people based on the list above. This is what we called stereotyping.  Usually, people have  a strong sensitivity to stereotype when they see different people based on their appearance or behavior that was portrayed by them. Plus, stereotyping is exaggerated generalization associated with a categorizing system, they go beyond the facts and comes out with a claim that is out of basis. I believe in our daily life we couldn’t stop ourselves from stereotyping others. This is because it has been a habit for us whenever we see, hear, or think are based on our general knowledge.

            On the other hand, we predict  a group of people that fit the categories that we used to know. For example, gender position and the way they have been treated in the societies. Men and women have their own privilege, they also do have different behavior. Both gender are complicated actually, but people are more likely stereotyping others based on what they believe without any limit. Facts for them can be proven based on their past experience and assume people are similar within each other.

            We cannot avoid stereotyping but we can reduce it. There are two ways to help in reducing stereotyping which is do not be too nice to the person and second point is learn to recognize and also avoid generalization. What can we understand by not being too nice  to other people? Purposely, do not acted super friendly with someone who we have just met. Therefore, we might avoid ourselves from making common thought of that person with our common friends. In addition, treated him differently so that we can learn new thing and experience. Thus, we can avoid from treating everyone equally that might lead to stereotype.

            Next, we need to learn on how to recognize and avoid generalization. This is because, we tend to judge people generally based on what we believe and through our past experience in facing people’s behavior. So, we must recognize first the privilege of someone before we simply jump into our own perception towards  that person. Frequently, people assume the others generally which is against the basis of life. People have their own privilege and we need to identified it to make them differ from others. In addition, what are the purpose of having new friends, if they have the same criteria like the others friend?. Everyone was created to play as their important role in this life.

           To conclude, here I want to consider that stereotyping is not good to be applied in our daily life. This is because, we don’t need to assume people are similar like others. They need to be given chances to see their privilege and we can learn new interesting experience from them.