a culture or race to be just as bad as those maybe three people. We often over generalize and stereotype groups of people based off one or two incidents we hear one day, and then we go and Google to just find more proof that whoever did what they did are the norms in those cultures. I don’t think I would ever consider what the Westboro Baptist Church people do as the norm for all Christian based organizations, and I think it would be a shame if other countries saw that and thought that’s all there was to Americans.
So if
you had to choose between believing that a whole race was just like a group of
religious extremists or investigating to see what those extremists have done to
their own people what would you choose? I think that I will always choose to
investigate more into what is really going on behind what we see come to
America. Sometimes I just get so frustrated when I hear on the news people talk
about other groups of people as if one person can answer for a whole race, and
then use that answer and place those expectations on everyone you see of
similar background/group. I chose the
picture below because I want you to see what other countries or groups of
people see when they see our religious extremists, and think about whether this
is a stereotype that we want to continue to be held.
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