Don’t Stop Here!
It is interesting to study about prejudice, stereotype and discrimination because we probably do those things consciously or not. Basically, those are not always negative. We perhaps will do it since we feel get a threat from our environment. For example, if we will do an assignment in a group with new friends. There is a little bit doubt whether someone in our group will involve well or not. It happened because we are scared if our assignment will get bad score because we don’t do optimally because of him/ her. I think in the very beginning of experience it is not really wrong. However, it will become a bad thing if we do it again and again. What should we do then?
As we may know, in simple way prejudice is judging someone before having enough knowledge and experience. I have an experience about this one. It happened when I was in my first days in SSE. At that time I acquainted with a female friend who is talkative. Firstly, I assumed that she was not a smart student. I do not know why I thought like that actually. Maybe it was because I had ever read that usually someone who is talkative is trying to cover up his/ her weaknesses. I did not try to understand more whether it was based on research with trustable result or it was just an assumption. Then, I realized that my prejudice was wrong. She is even belongs to one of smartest students in my class. How shame I am?
Another thing related to our assumption is called stereotype. In my understanding stereotype is overgeneralization. I also had an experience about it. When I was in senior high school I had a lazy friend. He was my classmate. He used to listen to our teacher’s explanation in front of class. He never took a note toward what my teacher have explained. He would borrow my notes if we were asked to collect our notebooks. His clothes also were not neat. At that time I assumed that he would find difficult to enter a university because of his laziness. I thought so because usually it needs a big effort to enter a university. However, I was very surprise when he succeeded entering UGM (Universitas Gajah Mada) in Geophysics major.
The last one which is related with assumption is discrimination. It is bad behavior that caused by prejudice or stereotype. I think it is the worst things among the others because it does not only work in our mind, but also it appears in our behavior.
Overcoming these issues, I think we should apply a motto “Don’t stop here!” It means that we have to do some follow up steps when in our minds appear prejudice or stereotype. The important point here are do clarification, search more data and information and try to make a conclusion objectively. Wish we will not do those things again after we apply this motto.
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