Stereotypes In My Life

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I have encountered a lot of stereotypical situations in my life, maybe more than an average person, it may be less, but what I do know is that everyone in their life one point or another will encounter a stereotypical situation. This situation can be very difficult to deal with and handle, you can solve the situation with several approaches. Depending on who you are as a person, is how you will solve the situation. One of the hardest stereotypes I have had to face in life, is when I started to attend the Roanoke Valley Early College. Majority of the students at RVEC are African American, and I am a Caucasian student, there are more Caucasians in the upper classes, but when I started out at RVEC in the 8th grade, I was the only Caucasian and it was adjustment for me, and for the other students as well. The students and I both had preconceived ideas of what our races consist of. With the help of their cooperation and mine, we both educated each other, and also were careful with our words, we discovered that it is not necessarily what we say but it is the way that we say it. This …show more content…

I usually do have a smile on my face, but when I’m not talking, laughing, or smiling, I seem to have a “mean look” when my face is just resting. So, for people who do not know me automatically assume that I’m mean, and even come off as that I am rude. When I met and spoke with a student at my school, they told me they never had an actual conversation with me simply because I looked mean, but when I spoke and interacted with the student, I proved that I am very friendly, which is the total opposite of what they had in mind. This example of a stereotypical experience I had was an intrapersonal conflict, I solved this conflict by accommodating. Accommodating is when you fit within someone’s wishes or demands in a helpful way. I was glad to have showed the student the real me, and not the person that she assumed I

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