Sunday, August 10, 2008

does discrimination arising from stereotypes exist in Singapore?

as stated in article 2 by Batz, 'most people would say, "what, me discriminate?'" yet plenty of people perceive that others are bring discrimnatory towards them"

i agree with Batz, many people would think that they would not discriminate, but they dont realise that they are actually discriminating by 'default'.

'by default' could mean how racism becomes routine. whereby how we accept our home's computer settings by default and that these setting are standard and should be accepted.

this default setting is like set in our heads, whereby it is almost impossible to change our points of view because it is almose like we were brainwashed to think this way.

for example, Singapore has had a few advertisments about convicts. where they show a muscular man with tattoos all across his body, holding a knife. the first thought that comes to one's mind would be that he's going to do a crime. however, the next scene shows how the man is actually a chef working in a kitchen. thus it shows how it is natural that one discriminates, because it is impossible to get rid of the stereotypes in our minds.

thus i feel that discrimination arising from stereotypes does exist in Singapore since stereotypes exists in everybody, this will not just happen in singapore, but all across the world.

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