Chart Ideas from the attached essay using the format below #
What the author is saying
What the author is doing
1
Persona identification
H. is reminding his readers that it is impossible to identify peoples characters by how they look like or even match their nationalities with their faces since all these differ significantly.
2
Stereotypes are more like gossips
H. is comparing stereotypes to gossips since they make premature judgements to people they have never seen which most of the time turns out to be false.
3
Stereotypes make us standardize people
H. is explaining to the readers how standardized people are based on existing claims. He based his argument on 30 photographs shown to students in Columbia and Barnard where the ratings were based on photos in terms of beauty, intelligence among others, and before and after they were identified.
4
The harms of stereotypes
H. is appealing how certain types of stereotypes impacts children socially especially during their early growth. This may affect them psychologically even when they grow up. In most cases, stereotypinv portrays the world as being irrational and has adverse impacts in integrated cultural perspectives. This is because we begin to typecast other people in our childhood years.
5
Stereotyped jokes
H. is drawing parallel lines between jokes and stereotypes. Although some information may be taken as jokes they carry a stereotyped message which may affect the way we analyze situations. This is evident in most movies, advertisements and books according to the author.
6
Ability to understand from stereotyping
H. is proving a point on how one can stereotype a certain information so that it can make sense to the readers and then later do a research to know if it is what it really seems to be.
7
Stereotyping to generalize the world
H. is trying to drive in a point on why human beings are not willing to do analysis of each individual as a special and unique creature but rather use the already existing information to generalize the world.
8
Stereotype encourages laziness
H. is expressing his feelings on how some people have formed a rigid mind about the information they have not even researched on and proven. Stereotyping apart from causing injustice, impoverishes us. A person loses the capacity of being himself and sees the world in their own absolutely inimitable and independent fashion
