Modern man, stereotypes and society

A conventional or formulaic conception or image is known as "Stereotype".By Growing up, much of a person's identity is being formed by his parents, grandparents and the society . It is formed by the things, one is taught at the school. The attitudes and behaviours directed toward an individual by others,  and representation are also involved in this phenomenon.
How one sees himself is strongly influenced by his/her family, in the cultural and traditional sense of the word.  This brings me to question ; how these influences affect our lives and what impact they have on how we see ourselves as youth and individuals.

I personally hate stereotypes. I dislike the fact that people think I should act one way because of my sex, personality, or nationality. I hate that people think I should not like sports because I am not a man.

I hate that people think I should be a nun because of my personality. I hate all of this because people are creating a concept of me based in what they see, but not in who I really am.
Stereotypes are a big problem in our society. It puts labels about how a person should act or live according to their sex, race, personality, and other facts. This could affect individuals who perhaps like different things or do different activities, but feel ashamed of doing so because of stereotypes. 

Stereotypes like all men like sports or women are not as strong as men, are among the most common in our society. Stereotypes have created a distortion of how every individual should be.
As a part of the modern generation one should know how these stereotypes could affect him as an individual.
For this, one should have to; learn not to judge and prejudge about people because of "what we think they should be like", and should change the point of view about the stereotypes that are deeply rooted in our society.

Many of the stereotypes are contradictory and create confusion on the part of young people. We, as modern generation, need to start questioning the beliefs we hold about each other and ourselves. Youth need to be engaged in a self learning process to start undoing the negative images we see and believe about ourselves. We must explore where these beliefs come from and start questioning the validity of the sources and then work to rebuild our identities with positive and empowering self made images. Working with our Elders will be a vital part of this process.

It is important to learn from each other to understand and avoid stereotypes that could be harmful.

Stereotypes are creating problems even in kids. These problems can affect children in many ways. We can see the negatives effects in many areas such as the academic area. In an article about “Awareness of racial stereotypes happens at an early age, has consequences”, it was being made obvious that, how stereotypes could cause problems in people from early ages. In support this claim based on a study of the University of Berkeley that shows how racial stereotypes make the children perform poorly in school. It was being mentioned that how we could solve these problems. Hyman says that school should “Change the way tests are described”,” Eliminate stereotypes and prejudice”, and “Adopt classroom practices to reduce competition”. If we want new generations to be successful we need to do something to change it.

This problem is creating confusion in kids because they are growing up thinking that they should be one way because society thinks that’s the ideal. Stereotypes also are creating a false idea of how they interact with other individuals. Many of the stereotypes the children receive are through media. We can’t change this because is the way our society works, but we can teach our children to value other people for what they are, not what they appear to be. It is also important to teach our children to respect each other regardless of sex, sexual orientation, race, culture, religion, personality and more. It is important to teach them these values because they are the future of our society.

We as the new generation, should do something to avoid this problem. We can start changing our perception of stereotypes. We should be aware that all stereotypes are bad regardless if they are good or bad because it causes prejudgment. We should learn to respect and understand other cultures, religions, and countries. This could avoid many problems such as discrimination. And more importantly we should teach newer generations to respect each other regardless of their differences. With all of this we can change our perception of the stereotypes that are deeply rooted in our society and make of this a better society.