James's Story
Racial Stereotyping is like bullying, its assuming or believing something about a group of people based on their ethnicity. ACLU defines racial stereotyping as " discriminatory practice of targeting individuals based on their race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin". Think of it in the way of the famous nursery rhyme bah bah black sheep. All the sheep have white wool, but one of the sheep. This sheep has black wool and is different from all the other sheep.
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| James the Sheep (figure 1) |
The black sheep's name is James (figure 1). James is sad because the white sheep (figure 2) don't like him because of his black wool. The black sheep don't play with James because he is different from them. What the white sheep don't know is that James is actually the same as them.
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| The White Sheep (figure 2) |
Once the sheep start to get older and grow in their wool, the farmer will shave off the wool and bag it to sell. The white sheep go first, they get their wool shaved and are sent back out to the pasture. James goes in last to get his wool shaved.
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| The Sheep with no wool. (figure 3) |
James is sent out to the pasture with the other sheep. When James goes out, all the sheep look at him and realize that James looks just like they do (figure 3). James looks the same as the white sheep because they don't have wool. Now the white sheep see James as one of them. They realize that James is the same as they are even though he has different color wool. All this time the white sheep were picking on James and making fun of him for being different, when he was actually the same as them.
How Racial Stereotyping connects to the Nursery rhyme.
This is how Racial stereotyping can look like to us, because we look different we don't always realize that we are the same, "Family and community traditions, popular culture, media, and personal experience can all shape the stereotypes that people apply to others, especially to those who are somehow different from themselves." (figure 4). Notice that people have white skin and some people have brown skin. This doesn't make them different, they still do and feel the same. They still go to school and have feelings like each other. Getting left out like James the black sheep did made him upset and the white sheep would get sad if they were left by themselves too.
Did you ever not talk to somebody or play with them because they had different color skin or talked different? Not talking or playing with somebody because of there skin color or language isn't the same is racial stereotyping. We Don't do things with them because they are different and think differently of them. But the truth is, everybody is the same. Every language means the same thing, its just said differently. It doesn't matter whats on the outside, it matters whats on the inside.
References:
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Did you ever not talk to somebody or play with them because they had different color skin or talked different? Not talking or playing with somebody because of there skin color or language isn't the same is racial stereotyping. We Don't do things with them because they are different and think differently of them. But the truth is, everybody is the same. Every language means the same thing, its just said differently. It doesn't matter whats on the outside, it matters whats on the inside.
References:
Behnke, A. M. (2017). Racial Profiling Everyday Inequality. Minneapolis, MN: Twenty-First
Century Books.
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