stereotype threat

Examples of stereotype threat in the following topics:

• Gender Discrimination

  • Gender discrimination refers to prejudice or discrimination based on gender, as well as conditions that foster stereotypes of gender roles.
  • Sexist mindsets are frequently based on beliefs in traditional stereotypes of gender roles, and is thus built into many societal institutions.
  • Gender stereotypes are widely held beliefs about the characteristics and behavior of women and men.
  • They can also facilitate or impede intellectual performance, such as the stereotype threat that lower women's performance on mathematics tests, due to the stereotype that women have inferior quantitative skills compared to men's, or when the same stereotype leads men to assess their own task ability higher than women performing at the same level.
  • A poster depicting gender stereotypes about women drivers from the 1950s

• Overcoming Stereotypes

  • Stereotyping is surely one of the most pernicious and troublesome temptations of human thought.
  • When we stereotype, we ignore individual differences and assume that knowing one thing about somebody tells us all we need to know: "When you've seen one Jew, you've seen them all. " "All men are alike!
  • By adding index numbers to our thinking, we can remember that stereotypes and prejudice are based on the demonstrably false assumption that all individuals who share one characteristic also share another one.
  • " I believe, however, that this is not a case of stereotyping.

• Terrorism

  • The threat of terrorism is one of the greatest challenges facing the United States and the international community.
  • The threat of terrorism is one of the greatest challenges facing the United States and the international community.
  • In current international affairs, the threat of Islamic terrorism, a form of religious terrorism committed by Muslims for the purpose of achieving varying political and/or religious ends, has been particularly prevalent.

• Civil Rights of Asian Americans

  • While the group's nickname generally reflects positive trends, it can be seen as offensive or stereotypical when it is applied in a way that implies all Asian Americans are well-educated, wealthy, and demure.
  • However, largely due to favorable stereotypes of Asian Americans, debates surrounding illegal immigration tend to focus on Latinos, who are more negatively stereotyped by native born Americans.

• Providing National Security

  • ensuring the resilience and redundancy of critical infrastructure; using intelligence services to detect and defeat or avoid threats and espionage, and to protect classified information;
  • using counterintelligence services or secret police to protect the nation from internal threats.

• National Security Policy

  • Security threats involve not only conventional foes, such as other nation-states, but also non-state actors, like violent non-state actors (al Queda, for example), narcotic cartels, multinational corporations and non-governmental organizations.
  • While all environmental events are not considered significant enough to be categorized as threats, many transnational issues, both global and regional, stand to affect national security.

• Immigration and Border Security

  • The challenge of illegal immigration is closely linked with that of border security, the concept of which is related to the persistent threat of terrorism.
  • Border security includes the protection of land borders, ports, and airports and after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, many questioned whether the threat posed by the largely unchecked 3,017 mile Canadian border, the 1,933 mile Mexican border, and the many unsecured ports.

• The Diversity Debate

  • Some believe that racial and ethnic diversity in schools fosters understanding of new cultures and beliefs systems, dispelling stereotypes held by the majority population .

• Voluntary, Involuntary, and Trust Associations

  • An involuntary association is created by the unilateral imposition or the threat of sanctions.
  • A grossly involuntary association exists, for example, when the victim hands over his wallet in response to the robber's threats.

• Iraq

  • After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom claimed that Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed a threat to their security and that of their coalitional and regional allies.
  • The Iraqi Parliament also ratified a Strategic Framework Agreement with the U.S., aimed at ensuring cooperation in constitutional rights, threat deterrence, education, energy development, and in other areas.