This document discusses stereotyping and ways to improve attitudes between people. It gives examples of how stereotyping damages people mentally and can lead to bullying. While clothing and appearances are often used to categorize and label people, only a small portion of young people were actually responsible for crimes like looting during the London riots. The document evaluates arguments made during a debate on stereotyping and ways to improve people's skills for future discussions.

1. Film Evaluation Sheet
1. Can you give two examples from the film as to why people stereotype?
People like to label others because it makes them feel better and they
only judge what is on the outside. Racism, blonde women are dumb,
clothing – girls with short skirts, goths with shaved hair, boys with baggy
jeans etc.
2. How does stereotyping damage people? Give one example from the
debate that we had.
Damages them mentally, it can lead to bullying. One example was the
London riots young people were blamed for looting etc. Actually only one
quarter were under 18
3. What ways did you pick out as to how people stereotype one another?
Clothing categories people into a certain group. If you are out with you’re
mates and you are making a lot of noise, adults
4. How does society encourage stereotyping?
5. Can we ever stop stereotyping?
6. How can we improve people’s attitudes towards one another?
Self and peerevaluation
Look at the evaluation criteria and decide the following:
1. How would you mark the arguments that you made?
Ok Good Very good Excellent
2. Pick a person from the class that you thought did really well in the
debate and put their name here: boye

2. How would you mark the arguments that they made?
Ok Good Very good Excellent
3. How could improve your debating skills? Pick out three things that the
other person did well that you can do next time.
a) Come up with more ideas for the debating
b) Pay more attention to people when they are debating
c)Needs to be more louder so everyone can hear him