This document discusses stereotypes in Africa. It defines a stereotype as qualities assigned to groups of people related to their race, nationality, or sexual orientation. It notes that AIDS was one of the principal epidemics in Africa around 2012. The document questions whether there is any truth to stereotypes, arguing that while social factors may have historically associated certain groups with certain behaviors or professions, science does not support claims that groups are inherently prone to specific behaviors. It provides an alternative definition of a stereotype as a fixed, overgeneralized belief about a particular group.

1. STEREOTYPES
AFRICA
LANGUAGE ARTS AREA
10ºGRADE
TEACHERS : LEO BARBA – RICARDO WOLL.

2. WHAT IS A STEREOTYPE?
• Stereotypes are qualities assigned to groups
of people related to their race, nationality
and sexual orientation; We Should avoided
Because they generalize groups of people in
manners that lead to discrimination and
ignore the diversity within groups.
DEFINITION

3. • AIDS : One of the most principal Epidemics in Africa,
around the 2012.
Stereotypes in Africa
This Picture contains the most important
Stereotypes that are used in the Africa.

4. IS THERE TRUTH IN STEREOTYPES?
• It’s oft said that stereotypes are rooted in truth, but
is this a valid statement? People who make this
argument often want to justify their use of
stereotypes. The problem with stereotypes is that
they suggest that groups of people are inherently
prone to certain behaviors. Arabs are naturally one
way. Hispanics are naturally another. The fact
is, science doesn’t back up these kinds of assertions.
If groups of people have historically excelled at
certain activities, social factors no doubt contributed
to this phenomenon. Perhaps a society barred a
group of people from practicing certain professions
but welcomed them in others. Over the years,
members of the group became associated with the
professions they were actually allowed to practice.
This came about not because of any inherent talent
in these fields but because they were the
professions that allowed them to survive. Those who
spread stereotypes ignore social factors and make
links between groups of people and certain skills,
activities or behaviors where none inherently exist.

5. A DIFERENT DEFINITION
• Definition: A stereotype is “...a fixed, over generalized
belief about a particular group or class of people.”
(Cardwell, 1996).

6. SOME PICTURES

7. • Is Important to Delete the Stereotypes, because is
something that is making damage to the
humanity.