- Is our ethnicity important in filling out applications?
- Why is it common practice in the United States?
- What is a generalization?
- How do generalizations create bias, stereotypes and effect behavior?
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When we fill out applications for whatever there is out there in the world, our ethnicity is important. When people look at an application, they look at where we are from. And as a first image of ourselves, the people will look at us based on previous applicants that have the same ethnicity. This procedure is common practice for the United States because people from all over the world look for a future here in this country. The United States wants to keep track who is in the country, where they are from, what they are doing here, and why. What is generalization? It is a term that is used to say what people think of people at first sight. They may base their thoughts on physical appearance, background information, or rumors. Generalization creates bias by showing favoritism and influencing people by what it knows.
-SP
Our ethnicity is not too important when filling out an application. You want to be looked at the same way as everyone else, not catagorized by your ethnicity. It's about your skill level, not where you are from. That brings me to generalizations. They are a description that can be used for more than one person. They may not be correct, however, which is why using generalizations is not a good thing to do. Generalizations create sides, or biases which can show what kind of person you are, it can show favoritism. That will effect us by changing our behavior toward a certain group, or generalization.
Sometimes being asked to describe our ethnicity on applications is necessary and appropriate. Other times it could be flat out discrimination. It depends on what kind of application is being filled out. To answer whether our not it is important to identify your background on forms, we would need a good understanding of how these kinds of forms are looked at. As to why it is so common in the United States, I would say that since America has many different people of different nationalities, as well as many different people wanting to come into America, the government wants to know exactly who is coming in. There is controversy and disbelief over whether or not this is done fairly, but at least at the surface it would appear that this melting pot of a nation needs to know the ingredients going in. Unfortunately, the forms that theoretically try to achieve this understanding often force generalizations onto people. A generalization is a statement or concept that groups things (like people) together in a way that is descriptive of at least the majority of whom the generalization is referring to. These generalizations create bias because they tend to divide people,causing a persons viewpoint to be accordingly subjective. This in turn, affects a person's behavior and they develop stereotypes where they "judge a book by its cover".
Ethnicity is important for filling out applications because it helps the reviewer of the applications get a better understanding of the people who filled out the applications. By knowing ethnicity, one can presumably understand the mindset of the person more than just knowing age, gender, height, weight, favorite ice cream, mother's maiden name, and whether the person was born on a Tuesday. Knowing ethnicity is extremely important in America,the melting pot of the world and the "politically correct" obsessed nation. Nobody want to tell an offensive joke to a person who would be offended by it.
Generalizations are assumptions that a large group has a certain characteristic. Generalizations create a bias by giving one an assumption that a certain group is either good or bad at something, thereby view member's of the group differently than a non-member.
Signed,
The Even Madder Hatter
I think that in most cases, ethnicity is not important in filling out an application. What matters is how well suited you are for what you are applying to. However, in many cases, like high school, college and job applications, the places want to have a wide range of ethnic groups, so they might be more likely to accept the application if you are from a minority.
Putting ethnicity in applications is a common practice in the U.S. because, like I just said, many schools and companies like to represent a large range of ethnicities and cultures.
A generalization is taking many diverse groups of people and labeling them all under one broad category.
Generalization might create stereotypes if many groups of people are put under the same category as one certain group with a bad reputation. In other words, if there are a few people in a category who do bad things, people will start generalizing and assume that the rest of the groups in the category are the same because they have been grouped together with the “bad” people. Society tends to focus on the bad things more than the good things, so while there may be many good things going on in a certain town or community, if one bad thing happens, that one bad thing will be what people hear about, and it could lead to the assumption that the whole community is bad.
Generalization might create bias because of the stereotypes that people hear about a certain group.
Generalization might affect behavior because if a stereotype is created about a certain group, the people in that group might subconsciously start to live up to that reputation.
Our ethnicity is important to fill out in applications because it is a good tool to help us. Like when someone comes in to the country, the country’s leaders must know certain characteristics of people that come in, so its government knows who is in the nation. Also that helps protect us because if we at war with a country and a person from that country tries to immigrate to our country and that person is deadly, we can catch him/her. Also in school applications, we have to fill out our ethnicity but that is only so they can give us extra care in our studies if we don’t understand something, with programs such as ELL. Filing out ethnicity is a common practice in the USA because Most of the population has a mixed ethnicity. Also filling out applications is a custom in the USA because many schools and companies have a large amount of different ethnicities and cultures. What is generalization? Generalization is a term that says what a persons thoughts are about a person, when seeing a new person, sort of like labeling him/her or “judging a book by its cover”. Generalizations create bias, stereotypes, and effect behavior toward others, by making others show certain emotions towards a group, not being fair in a compotation analysis, rumors and by other negative influences.
- HS
Sometimes when filling out applications, our ethnicity is important, other times though, its not. Sometimes when we fill out applications, people may be trying to decide which race is smarter or better than the other. If one application says 'African' people may refer to them as people living in huts with little or poor education. If the other application says 'Asian’ they may think about communists and how poor some of them are. If you are filling out an application to see how smart or dumb a certain country is, then including your ethnicity is an important thing. Maybe because there are so many different races in the USA they ask us what race we are. It is unnecessary to ask people their races.
Generalization is when you infer, or make a guess about something. In this case, to generalize is to take guesses about people, to guess about their lives other than what is written on the application. Those two examples of the African and Asian are stereotypes and bias. When filling out an application, people don’t know you or see you and that may make all the difference of who gets the winning application. Generalizations affect behavior by example. When FDR locked up all the Asians in camps, he set a poor example for the American people who some still have fears towards that race.
In most cases our ethnicity is not important when filling out applications, when someone reading the application sees an ethnicity it right away allows them to make a judgment about the person without even trying to. Whether good or bad it is not helpful to have something such as ethnicity in most applications. However, in some cases where the application has something to do with ethnicity, such as when someone is applying for a passport it could be helpful if ethnicity is included. Asking for ethnicity on an application is a common practice in the United States because there are people of many ethnicities living and working here. A generalization is when someone make a presumption about a person or object based on a group they are associated with. Generalizations allow people to make assumptions about another person which can create bias and allow someone to stereotype another person. If a person has generalized and stereotyped someone else it can definitely affect their behavior.
-Sam R
When people fill out applications, for the most part, it should not be important that we fill in our ethnicity. It is not important because the people looking at the application should not be looking at your ethnicity to determine whether or not you get the job or whatever it is your filling the application out for. But if you were filling the application out for school or something that the people looking at your application want different ethnic groups then in that case it could be beneficial. The big question though is, do people want to get in to school or get a job based on their ethnicity or on your academics and/or merit?
It is common practice in the United States to fill in your ethnicity in an application because many people come to the United States to get employed and have a future here, so people want to know whom it is their dealing with.
Generalization is a statement based on truths that are well known but does not have the full evidence.
Generalizations create bias, stereotypes, and effect behavior because people look at certain people and make judgments based on these generalizations. Because groups of people may have similarities, someone may make assumptions based on these generalizations, which may lead someone to getting a job or not getting a job, to being admitted to a college or university, or a person liking or disliking a person.
I think ethnicity is not important in filling out applications. Every person on this planet should be looked at as the same human being. This is a commmon practice in the United States because this country used to be a very racist country in the past and there are still some people who is still racist to specific people who is not originally from the United States. Generalization means is to think commonly. In other words to think from not really thinking about something or someone and deciding their identity even though some are not true. Genralizations create bias, stereotypes and effect behavior by making some one racist or not. Also if someone is a racist and they have a child they might also become racist too because the people around them is racist.
Most of the time I do not think our ethnicity while we fill out applications. Like yeah I understand that The person that is willing to give you the job to know your ethnicity, but I do not think that they should judge you on it. To put our ethnicity on or applications for a job is a common practice in the United States because with a variety ethnicities the employer can show that he/she is fallowing the equal oppritunity act. Generalization is a staement or principal that includes most or all of the people you are talking about. Generalizations can create bias, stereotypes and effect behavior because not everything they say is always real.
Our etnicity is important when filling out applications because people want to know where you grew up and to see if you got a good education. Also to see if the country you grew up in has enough technollogy in that area of jobs so you can get the open spot. This is common practice in the United States because the want to keep track of who is in the United States, also to see where they come from and what they are doing in the country. Basically making sure you won't do anything wrong. What the term generalization means? It means what people look at when they meet a new person at first sight. People may think in their thoughts about how they look, information about their country. Genralization creates bias by showing actions of what they did to the United States and by showing very bad behavior
TK
Ethnic background is a way to say that I come from someplace in the world, but humans are just humans and adapt to their environment. We just think we are different from animals.
The united states just likes to know where your from because they want to make sure you don't throw their government over. Lets say we have a student that came over from France and he's black. You would think he's from Africa. Thats generalization. This creates racist
stereotypical words that come into our lives.
It is really unimportant to mention our race on job applications. This has become popular though due to the stereo types put on certain races and/or cultures. Generalization is when you believe all people of one culture or race have the same traits. This become stereo types when they are even slightly proven true and then it is hard to stop them from their.
When filling out an application your ethnicity is not important but the skill at which you work is important. It has become a common practice in the United States because steriotypical people making assumpions of one person because of there race. Generalization is when someone beleives that everyone in one culture are alike in a way. Generalization has created steriotypes becuase it has seperated people as human beings.
-Hunter F
Ethnicity plays a significant role in the application process, both positive and negative. Some places, such as colleges, want to diversify their student body and choose people who come from different backgrounds. They want to make their institution more diverse and interesting. For many institutions, it has been important for affirmative action – to help balance some of the discrimination of the past. On the other hand, individuals on the other side of an application may have their own biases and have their decisions influenced based on the ethnic background of the applicant. For example, someone might think that because the applicant is Latino, that he or she may not speak English well enough for the job. That bias could affect the applicant. Though ethnicity should not play such an important role in America, it does. It is important because this is a country of many ethnicities.
A generalization is an assumption based on few facts. A prejudice is a generalization, but it is only a negative impression. A generalization can be positive, like thinking that all college graduates are smart. A negative generalization could be thinking that someone who is blind is not very smart. There are people who think they have to talk slowly and loudly to someone who is blind or disabled in some way, just because the person they are talking to has one disability.
In Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, Scott generalizes that all seniors are mean and out to “get” him, just because of some seniors who aren’t nice. He realizes this when he meets Wesley and changes his bias. Scott also generalizes that Lee is depressed and wants to kill herself just because he has heard that people who dress like she does have done that. Again, Scott learns in the end that she is not someone suicidal, she just likes dyeing her hair and wearing black and putting up posters of dead musicians. Generalization can create bias and prejudice because you take one fact about a person in a group and assume that fact is true for all in the group. Generalizing or stereotyping is something we should all be careful about.
When asked to describe our ethnicity in applications i believe that it can be unfair. Although it can be important to the people reading the applications so they can figure out where your from and your backround information, the people writting them sometimes believe it is unimportant. This is because they know that sometimes people want to know your ethnicity for the wrong reasons. Sometimes people will judge you by ethnicity instead of your personality and what you are really like as a person. This procedure is common practice in the United States because people from all over the world come to America to start a new life and find a job. Asking about ethnicity in applications can help them get an understanding of where your from and they can compare you to other people with the same ethinicity to get an idea of what you may be like. What people think of your first immpression on them is called generalization. What they make of you may be based on appearence, ethinicity, or what they have heard about you. They judge you by what they believe to be true about you. Generalizations create bias, stereotypes, and effect behavior. Generalizations create this because it can cause you to place people into catagories they don't belong in and cause you to act differently towards certain people. It causes favoritism.
-HC
In most cases our ethnicity is not important to put on applications. Although on certain things like high school, college and job applications there is a spot to put your ethnicity. These places like to have lots of different ethnic groups, so if they dont see your ethnicity as much as others, you could have a higher acceptance percentage than other people.
When you're filling out an application, for schools and jobs, they like to see your background. Now schools represent as many different ethnicities they have to show off in a way.
A generalization is when many different are put together and classified under one broad larger group.
Generalization might create stereotypes if there is one group or person who either causes trouble or creates something that everyone else disagrees with. So for those people who ruin it for everyone else, they are the ones that make the entire group look like their doing it.
Our community now focuses on the bad things that go on, and people don't just take a minute to realize all the good things that happen too. There is a quote that would go with this problem,"People look at the glass half empty instead of half full". When people hear these things they make an assumption that the whole community is bad even though its only one person.
Generalization could create bias when people hear about the stereotypes in a certain group and then just ignore that group completely.
Generalization might affect the behavior of people because once there are stereotypes about the group, the people in the group might just live up to that reputation/expectation. This also leads people to "judge someone" by their appearance or their behavior.
AP
Our ethnicity should not be important in filling out applications. When applying for a job, it is not necessary for an employer to know what ethnic group a person belongs to. If they do, the person might be discriminated against. Some people in the United States have prejudices against others. Some don't want to live, work, or go to school with other certain ethnic groups. It is illegal to ask for one's ethnicity on applications for jobs and housing, but not on medical forms. Doctors need to know ethnicity because some diseases occur more frequently in certain ethnic groups. Some countries don't have as many ethnic groups as the United States does, so this may not be as large of an issue in those countries. Generalizations can be both useful and unfair. They allow us to draw conclusions about a group as a whole, but not to individuals. You could generalize that Ivy League students are great students, but that doesn't mean that each individual student is great. When we make generalizations, particularly bad ones, that can cause biases against certain ethnic groups. Just because some people of an ethnic group may share a particular behavior, that doesn't mean every individual in that group does. If you tell a lie often enough, people start believing it's true. Through this, generalizations can stereotype certain ethnic groups. This in turn, can cause their behavior to change.
To some, ethnicity could make all the difference when filling out applications, and to others, it may not be important at all. It depends on what kind of application is being filled out. If someone is applying to work at a Japanese restaurant, the restaurant would probably only consider letting someone Asian work there even if the employee isn't specifically Japanese. The employers realize that not everyone can tell the difference between countries as long as the person has an eastern Asian look. They are just categorized as Asian. For a person applying for this job, ethnicity makes a difference, and for a person applying for a desk job, ethnicity is probably not an important factor in a job application. Applications are common in the US because people want to know about other people and where they're from and other things about them.
Generalization is inferring something about someone or something when you only know a few facts about them, and categorizing them into a group and giving a general form to something. Generalization definitely causes stereotypes and bias because you have not gone into specific details about a person and have only noticed the outside and have formed a general character of them.
Our ethnicity should not be important for filling out job applications. The only reasons for having a potential employee or student state his/her race would be either to make sure that one ethnicity is not discriminated against or to make sure that all minorities are represented. It is a good practice to try and stop racism from determining who gets employed. In this country, minorities have a history of persecution. For a long time, only people classified as “white” were allowed to go to college. This tipped the balance of who gets into college now. How important education is in a family and the level of education of parents has a direct effect on whether or not the children have the ability to get accepted into a college. If the parents do not read to their children or cannot help them be successful in school, the children will have a far more difficult time getting into a good college. You can probably see how this would create a ditch that would continue to keep minorities out of colleges that they should have gotten into based on latent ability. What college you go to affects your career options, keeping the lower class in the lower class. Making sure that all minorities are represented in a college will end this trend. Ethnicity should have nothing to do with whether or not you are employed or accepted into college.
Generalizing is categorizing by certain characteristics. Generalizing can often be useful, especially when applied to science or mathematics. They can also be used inappropriately. Saying that all people with certain physical characteristics act in certain ways and are all alike is stereotyping. For example, no one would say that identical twins are exactly the same, and identical twins are as physically similar as possible. As with all people there will be similarities and differences. However, generalizations do not create bias, bias creates generalizations. Bias happens when you see someone who is a member of an “out-group”, or does not fit into what you see as “in-group.” For as long as there have been territorial animals, there has been an in-group and an out-group. Humans just lie to themselves as to why they persecute minorities. Sadly, the behavior is no longer necessary for survival but continues to happen because it is a part of human nature.
I think that filling our ethnicity in on applications is unimportant. The only thing that it does is give people a chance to judge the applicants. Sometimes people don't think that judging is bad of they judge a good thing about that person, but that isn't true because if someone thinks that you will be good and then if your not that up to that expectation then you might not be hired and that's bad. This is a common practice in the United States because of the wide verity of race in the USA. A generalization is when someone groups people into general topics, like race and age, then says they all share certain characteristics. When people generalize they talk about people in group and what they say might not be true to everyone in that group. When someone says something about someone just because they are in a group that is stereotyping. If you stereotype then you will be more likely to agree or not agree with a group and that is being bias. When people generalize it will effect their behavior because they have a thought of a person in their before they know them. They might act differently if they heard something like that whatever race they are more prone to fighting so they act more cautious around them. In general generalizations are a terrible thing, they hurt and offend people.
Ethnicity is generally not important when filling out applications.People are still very racist in this country and when filling out an application, people should not be judged by their ethnic background.Only questions related to the job or whatever a person might be applying for should be asked. This is a common practice in the US because there are a lot of ethnic groups that call this country thier home, but for whatever reason, race should not be a judgemental factor. A generalization is judging a person and classifying them by thier group, or race in this situation. Generalizations create bias behavior because someone might favor one ethnic group over the other and people should get equal opportunities no matter thier ethnicity. Being a certain race or ethnicity should in no way be an advantage or disadvantage.
In order to fill out job applications ethnicity shouldn’t be asked for, but what should be asked for is our abilities towards the job. Though on some college applications it ask for your ethnicity because they want more minorities attending there schools. In the United States it is a common practice because of racism and stereo types about different races. This makes them think a certain way about them without even understanding their true identities.
Generalization is labeling someone without even knowing who they really are because of their race. For example, a person hiring people for a job saw that some of the people that where applying for the job were “not hard working”, since they all had the same race. The person that was hiring the people for the job said this because the last time he hired those types of people with the same race none of them were ever hard working.
The way that generalization creates bias, stereotypes and effective behavior is by judging a person from seeing others that have the same background.
When filling out an application our ethnicity is one of the most important things on it. A great example of this is applying to college, IF you are from a less common ethinicity than you have a higher chance of getting accepted to the college rather than someone of a common ethnicity. Schools want to be diverse, they want to have different ethnicitys in their school. This is a commmon practice in the United States just because it is the politically corect thing to do. Generalization is the act of putting a large group to a certain stereotype, when the truth is that few in the group fit that stereotype. Generalizations can be hurtful or even rude and they create many untrue stereotypes. Stereotypes will always be around but we can help minimalize the use of them.
-Kevin
Since we do have to write our ethnicity in/on our applications, it may be necessary, but I don't think that it's important. I believe that even if you came from some third-world country, if you went to high ranked schools and got good scores, then it shouldn't matter where you came from when you apply for a job. This is a common practice because we ( citizens of the United States) tend to generalize people from their background, so if we met someone from a third-world country, we might immediately think that that person is probably stupid because their home country doesn't have any good schools. Generalization is the grouping of other people, like foreigners, in different categories like stupid or smart or some other group. These generalizations make us think that the people from a certain country are all "freaks" or we end up thinking that they're all "stupid". These stereotypes make us want to stay away from the "freaks" or the "idiots" and if they are near, we end up treating them horribly. This generalizing and stereotyping causes people to become racist and they end up treating the other raced people differently from the people of our same countries or backgrounds.
-yuma goodman
I believe that there is no need to fill out enthnicity in forms and/or applications because, its causes people to stereotype you and compare you to others of that same/similar ethnicity. However it does give information about your culture, and customs so people can better understand your outlook on things. It is commonly practiced in the United States because our country is still a rather racist community. A generalization is like a general first intake on a person upon first encountering them. It can lead to biases and stereotypes because if your generalization on them is that they are an asian american with dark hair, your could be bias towards one of those charachteristics.
When filling out a form our ethnicity is and isn't important, depending on what the form is about. In general, ethnicity is not important when filling out a form. Like in the story we read people are judged by their ethnicity and it's not right. What's more important is who you are. It is common practice in the United States, one reason may be terrorists, we don't want another 911 or any tragedy. Also for some jobs you need to be born in the USA, like being president. A generalization is when someone infers something with little facts known about the subject. Generalizations create bias, stereotypes and effect behavior, because when people generalize about other people they usually know very little about the person and are wrong.
~Sarah
Our ethnicity isn't important for job applications. This is because we should be judged on who we are and what we do, not where we are from, or stereotypes based on other people who happened to be your ethnicity. This has become a common practice in the United States, because there are so many different ethnic groups, and kinds of people, companies and colleges don't have time to interview everyone, and if they might need someone diversify them. Also, some people do generalize people, and might base their decisions on stereotypes. A generalization is when someone bases a group of people on what only a few of them have done. Such as the generalization of Muslims being terrorists, when there are terrorists from many different groups, and not all of any of them are. Basically, some people might believe the stereotype ore generalization, and not hire someone who is Muslim, or even just middle eastern.
NDDB
Our ethnicity is not very important when filling out applications. It shouldn’t matter what your ethnicity is but if you are qualified for what you are filling out the application for. It is a common practice in the US because they are so many different ethnicities here. Also at many points in history, and still today, people discriminate against certain ethnicities and they want to know what the person's race is before accepting them for anything.
A generalization is when people assume a certain thing. Generalizations create many stereotypes, not only for different races but for different kinds of people such as athletic people, smart people and many others. This generalizations effect peoples behaviors because they assume something about a person, or anything for that matter, and it can be very hard to take back something that you assume.
I think that our ethnicity is important in filling out applications. I don’t think that it should be important though. When people see your ethnicity on an application they judge you whether they realize it or not. I don’t think that people should even have the chance to do that. I think it is common practice in the US because a while ago when people were very racist it would determine who would get certain jobs.
Generalization is like placing everyone from the same race, or really any other category and just saying that everyone in that group is the same. Its taking a group of people and getting rid of all their personal identities and replacing them with one for the whole group. When you just think of someone’s identity with everyone else’s you might just decide that you like someone more than another because of the color of their skin or something like that. This can create bias, and stereotypes by choosing someone in one group over another just by choosing one person in a group over another person in another group just by generalizing the people in those groups. This can also make you stereotype someone by thinking that since one person of a particular group is one way, everyone else in it is too. Also this might affect your behavior by treating people in one group the same as everyone else in that group when normally you would evaluate the people individually.
Emma Cornell
Ethnicity is an important part of filling out applications for many things. Ethnicity is one of the things that is asked for on job applications and health insurance forms. The United States focuses on ethnicity more than other countries because it has so many different people from varying nationalities around the globe. The United States government needs to keep track of minorities, who often have had more trouble in the past economically and may need more government assistance. Also some companies have policies that require them to hire minorities. Businesses sometimes target minorities with advertising that applies specifically to that particular ethnic group of people, for example advertising that features Indian food that is shown primarily so that Indians will see it. The word “generalization” is commonly used to refer to a large group of assorted people or things under a single category, disregarding everything that sets them apart from one another. This usually leads to a number of stereotypes being developed. An example would be the 9/11 attacks. After these tragedies occurred, some Americans discriminated against people that were Middle Eastern, even though they had absolutely nothing to do with the attacks and probably felt just as bad about them as the rest of us.
Our ethnicity is very important when filling out an application, even though it shouldn't be. In the United States people are sometimes judged based on their ethnicity though it may not make the person different than any one else. It is just not right to give someone a job based on their ethnicity or to keep them out of a job based on their ethnicity. Generalization is when you make a proposition or a statement about something in particular. In this case it would be about giving someone a job right away because of their ethnicity, or not giving an individual a job based on their ethnicity. Generalization can be harsh and affect behavior
Dylan B.
When you fill out applications are ethnicity is not important. If you’re filling out an application for whatever it is it shouldn't matter where you came from or what race you are. All that should matter is what kind of work you do and how well you do it. However in the United States it is common to fill in your ethnicity when applying for something. They do this because they want a different amount of ethnicities among whatever there applying for.
Generalizations are when someone puts you in a certain category or group because of what you look like or your race without even getting to know you. This can often lead to stereotypes and biases. Since you put peoples in a certain group you assume they act the same so you create a stereotype. It is best to not generalize that way you don’t create stereotyped and biases. Nothing should be based on what you look like or what race you are.
Ethnicity or background shouldn’t be important on applications. It shouldn't matter who you are or where you are from, you should only be judged by your knowledge and actions. It does make sense from the U.S' standpoint to use it because it is one of the most diverse countries in the world, there are always people coming into this country. The U.S wants to know who is in this country, what there opinions are, and where they are from. A generalization is something that people use in everyday life to fill out the missing information about people, or other things. They put the person or object in a group or category that they know more about, this helps them understand the individual in question. Generalizations create stereotypes and bias' because you put some a group of people into one category because of one similarity, whether it be truth or an inference.
Ethnicity is completely useless when it comes to filling out job aplications or any types of forms. People shouldn't be judged by the way thy look. When it comes to applying to a job the only things that should matter is your attitude and if you would be useful for the certain job that you are applying for. Theese questions have been on applications for as long as people can rember and nobody has bothered to change them or do anything about it. So in a way we are being unintentionaly racist. The thing about stereotypes is that they serve no purpose and are only correct if you want them to be. When people hear stereotypes about their race, religion or life style people slowly and unintentionaly become the stereotype about them. The only way stereotypes have any effects on society is if people believe in them anb then in a way they are enforced. In conclusion when it comes to society ethnincity is useless when judging people.
Our ethnicity is important when filling out application forms. Well when filling out a form the ethnicities are listed as white, African American, Asian, European, Latino or other. You could fill in ethnicities that are not you but why would you lie, especially about yourself? Our ethnicity helps define our identity. It is common practice in the United States to write our ethnicity when filling out application forms so the people for whom you are filling out the form can know more about you. The dictionary describes generalization as an unspecific or vague statement. But I think a generalization is a thought or idea we get about something without knowing it very well. So that means we can use generalizations to create stereotypes an affect our behavior. For example if a person has a bad experience with people with brown hair that person may have an unfair disliking of people with brown hair.
When filling out applications, our ethnicity is significant, although I believe that it shouldn’t be. It shouldn’t matter to people what your skin color is of where you come from, it should depend on the kind of person you are and how hard you work at whatever it is that you do. It is a common practice in the United States because people come here from all over the world looking for jobs that they may not have a chance to have anywhere else. Generalization is to infer something about someone based on either how they look or where the come from. Generalizations create bias, stereotypes and effect behavior because they cause people to separate from one another and engage in disagreements based on assumptions.
No our ethnicity isn't important when filling out applications. In the USA it is common mainly because of the large diversity of nationalities that are in our country. It shouldn't be important, and there isn’t really a valid reason for it, but it is very widely practiced in the USA. Generalization is judging a group of people/places/items based on what you know about that group from other people or past experiences. Generalizations cause people to see people in a certain way sometimes before they even met them based on things like heritage, skin color, sexuality, gender, and religion. Generalizations lead to people grouping other people together and forming an opinion about that group of people, affecting their decisions when dealing with said people.
-M.Dawson
Depending on what job it is, ethnicity plays a role of importance, but I think most jobs do not show any need to know a person's ethnicity. I think many people find the "little boxes" offensive or confusing, and I don't think that they should be on application forms unless necessary. In the United States, the government and the companies want to control, or at least feel in control, of everything. They feel we must be organized, and specifically categorized, but I think this is wrong. I think that each person is just who they are, and their ethnicity should not matter. When we categorize people into groups, there is commonly generalization. Generalization is categorizing a group of people as the same due to common stereotype, or image of them. I think that when we generalize people into ethnic groups, it forms a stereotype for them because of what people observe of certain individuals, and consider what they see to be what the whole group is like. I think this is wrong and we should not have this in the United States, because it is supposed to be a place where we are all equal, and nobody is discriminated and there is no prejudice, but I think that the grouping of one race promotes prejudice itself.
-Laura S.
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