1) INTRODUCTION
What is your first impression when you meet someone? Appearance? Clothing? Hairstyle? Occupations? Hobbles? Attitude? In Hong Kong, cross-cultural influences identity impressions and stereotypes. In this paper, I will initially discuss the connection between Identity and Stereotype in the case of Dimple Lin.
2) CASE STUDY
Dimple Lin, a girl who is in 30 years old. She has a different identity: a garage worker and car sales, a taxi driver, a professional pole dancer and an office lady.
My first impression about Dimple, from the news of Apple Daily, which is talking about pole dancers; A feminine young lady with a subscription working in a garage. I wonder how can her working in the garage with this skinny body. We started connect with her in Facebook and Whatsapp, and she is willing to share her daily picture and show us in Facebook. She has a busy schedule between China and Hong Kong for her multi-identities in different working place. Here are some pictures she shows us.
(http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/supplement/culture/art/20130218/18168336)
- Dimple’s Self Portrait
3) Planning research program
For our group, all group mates have a work on daytime; it is hard to gathering all people to have a group interview in the same time; Moreover, our interviewee schedule is unpredictable, it make difficult for us to made appointment with her. Before the interview, we have planned some questions and using professional recorder for record the in the interview for sharing with other group mate.
a) 1st Meeting
Date: 1 Nov 2013
Location: Kowloon Tong Innocenter, Pacific Coffee
Time Spending: 3 hours, afternoon
Target: Dimple’s Background, Time Spending in different wo...
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...xer and the panel, bar chairs, projection screen with TVB drama, cigarette smell, and a pole in the middle of the room.
She told us this studio is owned by her boy friend, and he is also a professional DJ and sound mixer. She will practice pole dance here sometimes and she store some pole dance costume, she show us her favor high heel shoes with 7 inch high, and share some DIY pole dance costume which is made or decorated by her self.
From Car Sales to Taxi Driver:
She works in the garage for 3 year till the economic depression in 2010, the sale of the car dropped gradually. She mention she loves to work in garage and in these 3 years, her outstanding achievement gains her boss, colleague, customers trust and respect, and she learnt how to maintain a garage business and meet lots good business partner. She listen her father advised, and change to be a taxi driver.
The film “A League of Their Own,” depicts a fictionalized tale of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. This league was started during World War II when many of the Major Leagues Biggest stars were drafted to the war. MLB owners decided to start this league with hopes of making money while the men were overseas fighting. Traditional stereotypes of women in sports were already in force before the league even begins. One of the scouts letts Dottie, one of the films main characters she is the perfect combination of looks as well as talent. The scout even rejects one potential player because she is not as pretty as the league is looking for even though she is a great baseball player. The player, Marla’s father said if she was a boy she would be playing for the Yankee’s. Eventually Mara’s father is able to convince the scout to take Marla to try outs because he raised her on his own after her mother died. Her father says it is his fault his daughter is a tomboy. In this case the film reinforces the traditional stereotype that mothers are in charge of raising their daughters and teaching them to be a lady, where fathers are incapable of raising girls to be anything other than a tomboy. The focus on beauty also reinforces the traditional stereotype that men will only be interested in women’s sports when the females participating in
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The main character is Janine Starr. She is overly shy, a bookworm, and an extremely religious Christian; however, she is an undercover cop. She works for the New York Police Department. In order for her to be promoted to a “detective” she has to work at a local strip joint, “ChiChi’s,” on West 8th Street. The reason for her to work at ChiChi’s is to bust the city’s top drug tycoon, Miguel Martinez.
Stereotyping is an adaptive mechanism, adopted by human beings, to assist in the cognitive process of impression formation. Within the social arena, we are subjected to unfamiliar people and places on a regular basis. First impressions are often formed hastily on the basis of very limited information, and assisted by the practice of stereotyping. More specifically, stereotypes can be defined as the cognitive schemas that relate to a particular social group. These cognitive schemas are mental structures that contain knowledge about a particular type of stimulus: attributes, relations, and so on (book). In terms of gendered stereotypes, these schematic structures outline how men and women ought to behave, and contribute to impression formation:
Stereotyping can have a very negative impact on how we choose to see and communicate with others. Stereotyping is simply assuming or believing unfairly that all people with a particular characteristic are all the same. This can lead people to have a bias and even a lack of empathy when communicating with others. Stereotyping can also cause people to judge someone based on appearance and perceptions, before they have even met an individual. On the other hand, stereotypes can allow us to predict an individual’s behavior; a useful “trick” when it comes to communicating with other. Therefore, stereotyping can have both negative and positive drawbacks.
“ Part of the female stereotype has always focused on looks” (Hanan 81). For example, when a
Society describes stereotyping as a generalization about a main group of people whereby they attribute a defined set of characteristics based on their appearance. We usually stereotype people when we are unable or unwilling to obtain all of the information that we need to make a fair judgment about people. Furthermore, when we judge people and groups based on our prejudices and stereotypes we start to treat them differently because we are discriminating them without even knowing them. Both authors Debra Merskin and Richard Lapchick convey the importance that stereotypes plays in our society, especially for Indians and athletes.
The view of identity seems to be defined by facial features and social constructed views. Depending on the recent look of someone it may just be more then just color but also background. In this essay I will explain how I relate to some recent views based on philosophers I may agree and disagree with in order to describe my identity. Identity is much more then just being labeled as a race, it can be based on much more.
The first characteristic of stereotyping is over-generalisation. A number of studies conducted found that different combinations of traits were associated with groups of different ethnic and national origin (Katz and Braly, 1933). However, stereotyping does not imply that all members of a group are judged in these ways, just that a typical member of a group can be categorised in such judgements, that they possess the characteristics of the group. Still, when we talk of a group, we do so by imagining a member of that group.
Prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping are important topics at the cause of debating within social psychology. A stereotype is a generalization about a group of people, in which certain traits cling to all members, regardless of actual individual variation (Akert, Aronson, & Wilson, 2010). As humans, people assign objects and individuals into categories to organize the environment. Individuals do this for not only organization, but also survival. Is stereotyping inevitable? That is the question; according to Devine (2007), it is, but Lepore and Brown (2007) have to disagree. Devine believes that “stereotyping is automatic, which makes it inevitable.” On the other hand, Lepore and Brown are not convinced that stereotyping is automatic, and have claimed, after observation, that it depends on the individual.
...able they really are with overtly racist stereotypes; and even with all the “human right”’ movements that spring about there is still the need for long-lasting solution against combating prejudices. By displaying stereotypes jokingly, especially ones that pertained for the Asian population, Yang proves not only do people hold prejudice against other groups with his examples of Asian stereotypes, but that stereotypes are still prevalent in today’s society.
An individual shows their identity through their use of language, gesture and clothing. The way one enacts identity can depend on the situation/occasion. A dimension of cultural identity performances is one 's scope of identity performance, i.e. the aspects of one’s behaviour expressed through their cultural identity. For instance, when Keith visits China, for sometimes months at a time, he chooses to eat a few ethnic-related foods, but rejects the traditional ethnic dress. The second dimension is the intensity of identity performance that outlines how powerfully one enacts their identity. For instance one may make a point of proclaiming their national origin, details Clarke (2008). Keith returns from China each time, re-iterating the point that he was treated like royalty; he still finds this somewhat incredible given his humble working class origins. An additional aspect is one 's salience of identity performance- how obvious is the cultural elements of identity in one’s daily routine. When Keith visits China he still reads the Economist a British publication and watches BBC television, which he prefers to CNN, an American television channel. Keith 's reliance solely on ethnic mass media are all ways in which one asserts
They are born and grow, they die and change to fit at times” (Guerilla Girls, pg. 8). Therefore, this explains how stereo types are defined by cultural beliefs and religion based on expectations for gender. This affects gender because we are not looking at the person for who they are in reality. This resource has challenged my thinking by helping me understand the different types of stereotypes that effects woman inner self and dignity. Therefore, this shows that they are only based on assumptions and not accurate data. For example, .a woman who doesn’t meet the standards of ideal woman should not be suggested to be ugly because they must be beautiful in the
Taking all this information into consideration, the present study sought to investigate the effects occupational stereotypes have on forming impressions and personality judgements. The aim of the study was to see how different groups of participant rated a photograph of an unknown individual on things such as likability, wealth, education and status. This was done by using three separate groups, the same face was used on each image but the job title was changed for each test group.
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