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Stereotyping in Society     I think it is attractive hard to go through a week without experiencing at least(prenominal) two or three incidents where someone or a sort of people is being sterotyped. Whether it comes from jokes, television, comics, or just hearing people call down about other people, stereotyping is around all the time.     The first example of stereotyping that I witnessed comes from the television show "That 70s Show." At least every episode the "crew," or group of friends always hang out, and they have a foreign diversify student for a friend. They dont know what country hes from exactly they always prepare fun of foreigners on the show. They crack jokes about him floating over on a raft to the United States and always check references to him being from opposite countries that hes not from just because his skin is shameful. The jokes are funny and they arent supposed to attenuated the characters fe elings, but they are very stereotypical.     I saw a technicalized the other day that was an advertisement for using protection during sex to care the fight against the spread of AIDS. The commercial starts out talking about how African Americans represent the leaders of sports because they have the best basketball players, leaders in baseball, and have the fastest track runners. Then at the end of the commercial they say that they are also leading the population of the United States in being diagnosed with the AIDS virus.      When I saw the commercial I didnt really know where it was going and it is good that it ended with a serious message, but I didnt really agree with the way they presented it. It is probably true that African Americans make up most of some sports, but they didnt have to make it sounds like African Americans are superior to white people when it comes to sports.     The third gear example that I wit nessed was from the show Seinfeld. It was the episode where the character Elaine met a smart boyfriend and she didnt know what cannonball along he was. The guy was slightly dark complected and a different race than white was expected so Elaine unbroken on taking him to different restaurants trying to figure out what race he was.