Stereotyping
From my opinion, yes it is true most people find it is difficult
to avoid from being stereotyping. My understanding towards stereotyping is,
stereotyping is exaggerated generalizations associated with a categorizing
system, it goes beyond the facts at hand and claims that usually have no valid
basis. For me why we find it hard to avoid stereotyping is because from we were
a little we practice stereotyping in our daily life. Stereotyping is something
that we see and we make a judgment, for example in our country when we see
someone with a messy appearance on the spot we would assume he or she is from a
village. Immediately we make judgment based on he or she appearance. In Malaysia,
Malaysian people usually state the obvious. Another example, in Sabah there is
a war going on because sultanate of Sulu claims that they are the rightful
owner of Sabah, as we know now that Sabah is one of our government fortresses.
Thus, when the intruder invade Sabah and wage a war with our Government, the opposition
party tends to manipulate the incident and claims that this one of the “drama”
by the Government in order to gain sympathy and be a hero to save Sabah people
from this terrorist. It is human nature when one didn’t get the thrust or
support by others, one will assume that all of the wrongdoing is done by the
opposing party, whether there are from Government side or the opposition side. Stereotyping
is where humans find it difficult to avoid in the daily life, we practice it
since we were in a kindergarten.
