Throughout history stereotypes have affected our views and lives. Many events happen from stereotypes. They affect entire races and personally can affect people a lot. Viewing people as a threat or an outsider. Compressing culture and identity to make people accept you. Often people look at our differences and try to separate each other instead of using it to develop connections and understanding. Separation causing more struggle for equal rights not just for ourselves but for each other. Just because you are not like them doesn’t mean you can’t fight together. Not for them or yourself. But together. In this video it show the effect of racial stereotypes in a historical context.
Have you ever been affected by stereotypes? How did you react or make you feel? Who did it? Why did that person have that stereotype?
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFXmyNUaXFo