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Stereotypes journal entry
Margaret Ahn

I often have absent-minded facial expression. It’s not intended, but because of the accordance to my appearance, people see me abstracted. Because of this behavior, people often judge me as an “absent-brain” person. Not that I’m actually very good or passionate about academics, how people judge me as dumb person is wrong. People always make facial expression of “you? No way!” whenever they hear what math course I take.

Even though I do not like people who judge people not even knowing them, I often find myself being that kind of person, too. In Korean School high school, students are separated into two sections: liberal arts, science department. Even though I found many exceptions, I judge people who are good in math would not be good at language part.

Stereotypes cannot be beneficial. There is no benefit from having only limited perspective, which is prejudice. I think stereotype is made by inevitable human instinct. People tend to generalize a statement by what seems to be the pattern or what seems to be true most of the time.