Our society is one in which everything, including its members, to be easily categorized and labeled.
Our society is one in which everything, including its members, to be easily categorized and labeled. Race, religion, sexual preference, and ethnic backgrounds are just a small number of ways we discern between different peoples. It is human nature to want to explain and divide the elements of our world. However, this categorizing of parts can create a rift between peoples from different walks of life. This promotes ignorance and indifference. Labeling people in such a way skews our view of reality and removes objectivity from our perceptions. This leads us only to focus on our differences while ignoring all of the wonderful things we have in common. This hindrance of perspective is a product of our own creation: Institutional racism.
In a society so skewed by stereotypes, it is often that the facts are taken very much for granted. For instance, in light of our recent attacks on the United States of America, many people harbor hatred and resentment towards people of Middle Eastern descent. Many people look at Middle Easterners and see nothing but an Arab terrorist. In actuality, many of these people have been American citizens as long as you and I, and in many cases are Christian rather than Arabian.
In a society so skewed by stereotypes, it is often that the facts are taken very much for granted. For instance, in light of our recent attacks on the United States of America, many people harbor hatred and resentment towards people of Middle Eastern descent. Many people look at Middle Easterners and see nothing but an Arab terrorist. In actuality, many of these people have been American citizens as long as you and I, and in many cases are Christian rather than Arabian.