Essay post 1/17/7

In the Rosenblum and Travis essay they say that people are discriminated against because of race and culture. This is very bad because why should people be based on a group. Just because some people in a certain race act a certain way, that doesn't mean that all people of that same race act as the group does. It is very uncommon to find someone who is completly unracist and when you find someone like this it is a good thing. Somewhere in the back fo every person's mind there is a feeling to treat a person differently or think differently about that person. When a person can eliminate that subliminal feeling they have achieved a lot.
The same thing goes for gender. The authors say that a masculine female is more acceptable than a feminine male. It makes me wonder why. I think that they are like this is because society's views on males is more strong than its views on females. Females can have many different roles and males are seen to have only one, to make the money for the family. Women on the otherhand can be seen as a homemaker or to bring in money or even other things.
People in stigmatized groups are said to have five charactoristics according to this essay. They are lack of values, likely seen as a problem, lack of self control, too much or too little intelligence, and childlike and savagely. These are simply stereotypes but they show very little understanding of people as an individual instead of people as a whole. People should start to view individuals instead of assuming based on the whole.