Running Head: STEREOTYPES

Stereotypes

Stereotypes

Stereotypes are qualities assigned to groups of people related to their gender, sexual orientation, culture, nationality and race. Stereotype means fixed generalized belief about class of people or a particular group. For example, individual person those met few individuals from a particular country and developed ideology or stereotype about the whole country people. Generally, these beliefs can be positive and negative such as particular nationalities are stereotyped as friendly or unfriendly (Burrows, 2005). Stereotypes can be categorized the people based on certain factors such as to identify threats, friends, relatives and other people those can interact with them in society.

Stereotype characteristics are presented in every...