This document discusses the dangers of stereotyping and provides examples. Stereotyping involves believing that all people in a group have the same characteristics, when that is not true. It can lead to prejudice, discrimination, racism and acts of violence. The document lists some common stereotypes of English people and notes that stereotyping was used to justify laws discriminating against Jews in Nazi Germany. Stereotyping can dehumanize people and make them feel lower than others.

1. THE LEGACY OF HOPEL:O= To understand the dangers and consequences of stereotyping

2. Get the class to move around and form groups under the following categoriesThose that wear glassesThose that have brown eyesThose that have an allergyThose that are part of a sports groupThose that have been abroadThose that live in Welling

3. STEREOTYPINGDefinition: A stereotype is "...a fixed, over generalised belief about a particular group or class of people.” (Cardwell, 1996). In other words stereotyping is believing that people of a certain group, race or religion all have the same characteristics when they don't.

4. People stereotype the English:"Gardening, warm beer, stiff upper lip, double-decker buses, Morris dancing ""Saying the words 'splendid' and 'terribly' and old fashioned words/phrases like 'cheerio', 'spiffing' etc, '‘"The English eat a big breakfast in the morning with bacon, eggs, baked beans…” "England is a land of beer, football and bad weather."

5. Think of three groups in society that have been stereotyped.

7. What is stereotyping wrong?

8. What is stereotyping wrong?We do not see the difference in people and class them the same.We may think things about people that are not true.It creates a them vs us image.It leads to prejudice and discrimination.It can dehumanise people and make them feel lower than others.

9. What can stereotyping lead to?

10. What can stereotyping lead to?1. Huge rise in number of racist attacksBy Nigel Morris, Home Affairs CorrespondentRecord numbers of racist incidents – from verbal abuse to stabbings – are being reported to police, fuelling fears that levels ofIslamophobiaare rising.More than 61,000 complaints of racially motivated crime were made in 2006-07, a rise of 28 per cent in just five years, with increases reported by most police forces in England and Wales. Officers classified 42,551 of the complaints as racially or religiously aggravated offences. Nearly two thirds were offences of harassment, 13 per cent wounding, 12 per cent criminal damage and 10 per cent assault.

11. 2. Bullying

12. 3. Feelings of isolation and being alone

13. 4. Vandalism

14. 5. Public acceptance

15. 6. Laws that discriminateLaw for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour (15th September, 1935) Marriages between Jews and subjects of German or kindred blood are forbidden. Marriages nevertheless concluded are invalid, even if concluded abroad to circumvent this law.Extramarital intercourse between Jews and subjects of German or kindred blood is forbidden.Jews must not employ in their households female subjects of German or kindred blood who are under forty-five years old.(1) Jews are forbidden to fly the Reich and national flag and to display the Reich colours.(2) They are, on the other hand, allowed to display the Jewish colours. The exercise of this right enjoys the protection of the state

16. 7. Persecution and Genocide

17. PlenaryYou will see three images. You need to decide who out of them is the VICTIMPERPETRATOR (Person who carried out actions against someone else)RESCUER

21. FindingsPhotographs 1in fact show ReinhardHeydrich in uniform and with his family. He was responsible for carrying out the extermination of the Jews. Photograph 2 shows Kurt Gerstein who joined the Nazi Party to find out what they were doing and to pass on the information to the Allies.Photograph 3 is not a Jewish child. It is a gypsy child who was also murdered by the Nazis.

22. Websiteswww.holocaustmemorialday.gov.uk – the Holocuast Memorial Day sitewww.yad-vashem.org.il – Israel’s Holocaust museumwww.ushmm.org – US Holocaust museumwww.bethshalom.com – a collection of Holocaust related siteswww.iwm.org.uk – Britain’s largest Holocaust exhibitionwww.jewishmuseum.org.uk – specialist Holocaust resourceswww.groups.msn.com/TheHansJacksonGallery – collection of all Hans Jackson’s workwww.wienerlibrary.co.uk - a collection of Kindertransport archiveswww.wjr.org.uk – World Jewish Relief which organised the Kindertransportwww.ajr.org.uk – The Association of Jewish Refugees and members of the Kindertransport