Stereotyping is a continuous action, it means you match something to a standard. For example, when I came to America the first time, I met a fat, uninterested, selfish person, and that led me to believe that all Americans were fat, uninterested and selfish people. I was stereotyping, but it happens a lot when people meet me. For most of the Americans, I am their first experience with Holland. I have to be careful with what I say and do, since I represent my country. People here in the United States could stereotype me because it is something done real easily.

People have been stereotyping ever since they were born. If we take a look at “The Sheriff’s Children” (Charles Chesnutt), different stereotypes are made.

In the Sheriff’s Children Captain Walker is murdered, the suspect is a “Mulatto”, a progeny of white and black, named Tom. Tom is protected in the jail by the sheriff, while the Townspeople try to get him, to give him the death he deserves. Tom gets a chance to take the gun from the Sheriff, threatens the Sheriff to let him go, and gets shot by the Sheriffs’ daughter.

Captain Walker is a stereotypical Confederate Civil veteran; he has been through two

One of the big stereotypes made by Chesnutt is the Townspeople versus the sheriff. The Townspeople live in a small village in North Carolina, with a population of four five hundred people. Chesnutt writes, “No railroad had come to Troy”, this tells us the city is dead. A murder takes place, and the suspect, Tom, is caught. He is described as a “Mulatto”; mulatto is a progeny of a black and a white. The Townspeople come together and decide they want to lynch the suspect. Chesnutt describes the Townspeople as, “bearded men in straw hats and blue homespun shirts, and butternut trousers of great amplitude of material and vagueness of outline: women in homespun frocks and slat-bonnets, with faces as expressionless as the dreary sandhills which gave them a meager sustenance”. They are stereotype Southern farmers that live 10 years after the civil war was fought, who hated black-American people. Chesnutt shows us later on in the story, “I s’pose the nigger ‘lowed the Cap’n had some greenbacks”, and “Hangin’ air to good fer the murderer, he oughter be burnt, stidier bein’ hung” Those are some good examples of the hate they have towards Tom.

wars and received his major wound at one of the most famous battles in American history--the battle that turned the course of the Civil War. Whether he's a dotering old fool--which he is -- does not matter because he is a hero, a “Man’s Man”. He's a fool because he saved a bunch of Confederate money, which is completely worthless--in hope that some day the South will rise again. Hence, he is a true, disillusioned but proud Southerner--a truer southerner does not exist. Plus, he is ironically killed not in war but in his own home by, presumably, a colored man lower than a pig. People believe that had the South won, amoral colored folk would not be roaming the land, killing, robbing, and raping an old sol

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