Topic – Chinese stereotype. People around the world usually believes

Topic – Chinese stereotype. People around the world usually believes Chinese has the best martial arts, and everyone knows it well. Because Bruce Lee, Jet Li, Jackie Chan, and Donnie Yuen are quite famous in America, you can find lots of Chinese martial art academies across the world, including America. My friends also often ask me if I am good at martial arts.

Back in 2006, When I was FOB( fresh of the boat), I was fifth grade in an elementary school in New Jersey, being the one the only Chinese kid in the school was very harsh, I once get bullied, but there’s one time that a white kid yelled at the kid who were bullying me, telling him to stop or he will take you down with Chinese Kung Fu. I didn’t understand what he meant until later, I realized most of the American kid have a stereotype that all Chinese has  a good amount of knowledge in Kung Fu, and they will put you down if you mess with them. And I think this is something that could be a good topic for the project.

• Research question

Does movies, stereotypes, or media really tells you about the organization? How do we truly understand the core of an organization? And how do we understand an organization without watching it’s movie, new, and stereotype?

 

• Preliminary research

The scholarly article I used is called “Online reading in psychology and culture, unit 5, subunit 1 stereotype and prejudice”. This article provides insight into the process of stereotyping from two different perspectives: the perceiver and the target. From the perceiver’s perspective, motivational and cognitive reasons for relying on stereotypes for judgment are discussed. From the targets’ perspective, stereotype threat research is reviewed. From both perspectives, it is clear that stereotypes represent a dual-edged sword for both perceiver and target group members. This article helps me on the project on seeing stereotype and prejudice in different angles and solutions to decrease, eventually stops it.

 

 

 

 

Allport, G. W. (1954). The nature of prejudice. Cambridge, MA: Addison Wesley. Aronson, J., Lustina, M. J., Good, C. & Keough, K. (1999). When white men can’t do math: Necessary and sufficient factors in stereotype threat. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 35, 29–46.

 

Dixon, J., Durrheim, K. & Tredoux, C., (2005). Beyond the optimal contact strategy: A reality check for the contact hypothesis. American Psychologist, 60, 697-711. Dovidio, J. F., Kawakami, K. & Gaertner, S. L. (2002). Implicit and Explicit Prejudice