Why stereotypes are harmful?
Why stereotypes are harmful? (By Pashmeen Kaur ) Image By:- Kanishka Sharma INTRODUCTION Stereotypes are a part of our daily life we hear about them everyday and almost everywhere. Sometimes we ourselves become stereotypical maybe when we surround ourselves in a large group, we start judging people on the basis of the personality or persona that they carry around us. Every young or old person is labelled to as negative or a positive person. Stereotype affect the emotions and behaviour of every individual in our society for how they are liable to interact in the society and with the environment. This is one of the main reasons why people have started wearing mask and never show they real sides to us. There are sometimes in life when you do not feel like meeting new people and making new friends this is because we have made ourselves comfortable in a platter. We get afraid that the new people around us will judge and again the colour of us will change. The question why can not we b