Some men have these same characteristics. Men, suppose you watched a really sad movie and started to cry because you have had some experience in your life that you could relate this to, and someone else tells you to be more like a man. This is a perfect example of a gender stereotype. Is every man the same? Should every man conform to what everyone thinks a man should be? This is based on the view that many people have for a "typical" woman. To move away from the negative side of things, here is an example of a more positive stereotype. A man says to a woman, "The reason you have more friends than me is because women have better relationship skills than men." This could be true or false, but it is an example of a positive stereotype. Women do tend to have better relationship skills than men. In dealing with gender stereotypes, it is the intertwined view of the other sex that creates the stereotypes themselves. The next time that someone uses a gender stereotype make sure to ask them what their presumptions are based on, and if they think that everyone from the same gender should be exactly alike.
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Ethnic stereotypes have to do with a person's race or culture. One type of ethnic stereotype is one that suggests that a person fits a certain personality trait because of his or her ethnicity. For example, at least once a week I hear someone calling another person a Jew because of the way they"re acting. Today, when someone is called a Jew, it means that the person is either stingy or cheap. So basically, someone who uses the word in this context is saying that all Jews are cheap or stingy, when half the time, the person saying it has never met a Jewish person in their life. To move to the positive, someone can say, "Indians sure are good hunters." Even though this is false because there are Indians who haven't hunted before, this gives a compliment to an ethnicity. Another type of ethnic stereotype is one that associates preferences with an ethnicity group.