Stereotyping

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.