POV: Stereotyping ✿

Assalamualaikum. Today's topic is stereotyping. 

What comes to your mind when you hear the word, 'Stereotyping'? I'll tell what comes in mine; gays, nerds, geeks. Look, I just stereotyped groups of people which are gays, nerds and geeks. In my own perspective, I think stereotyping is a disease that is already in our mind. It has being drilled into our brains ever since we were little. This is a passed-on disease, I would say. As everyone know, every child's first education is at home. Parents are children's first teachers. Children learn mostly from their parents, like the way they speak, the way they eat and the way they do things. With or without realization, stereotyping occurs almost 24/7. I wouldn't say that I don't do stereotyping because I do it too. I am one out of many stereotyping 'patients' that have troubles in eliminating this so-called-habit. I would say that stereotyping starts as being nurtured in ourselves from the influence of the surroundings, with or without us realizing it. I would say that it happens without us being conscious. I wouldn't take that as a fault that is valid to be blamed for as stereotyping occur without us realizing it. 

Sometimes, what we think about something is not entirely true. Our assumptions do lie, sometimes. That is why we can't assume. To me, assumptions and stereotyping are intertwined with each other. They are like best friends, holding each other's hands, teaming up to destroy people's minds and feelings. To psycho us, that's the right word; psycho. When it comes to stereotyping, I would say that it is somewhat unacceptable. But, it happens without us realizing it. Despite that, I still think that stereotyping is a BIG NO-NO! I don't think people should stereotype. It's undeniably sickening to simply view people based on what people have categorized them in. Sometimes, well, almost all the time, stereotyping is not true. 

It is known to most people that whoever has punk hair is a bad person. This goes the same with those who have tattoos on their bodies. One of the most popular groups of people that have been categorized by the society is blondes. What comes into your mind when it comes to blondes? Britney Spears? Justin Bieber and recently platinum-blonde-dyed Kim Kardashian? The word, 'blonde' brings me back to the movie, Legally Blonde which the main cast of it was Reese Witherspoon whom is a blonde and in the movie, she was initially been laughed by her university mates because she seemed clueless of simply everything. But, at the end of the day, she got fired up and she tried hard to make the people who are laughing at her, stop laughing anymore. She wanted to proof those people that she was not like what she has being stereotyped as and that she was much better than that. She successfully done a great job in her Law studies and successfully became a lawyer at the end. This, thus shut people's mouth about her stupidity before. Thus, this clearly proved that stereotyping does not necessarily convey the truths. Easily said, stereotyping is clearly based on shallow-minded people. 

In brief, try to avoid stereotyping. It is hard, unimaginably hard. But what do we get to lose if we don't even want to try?