CHANTEL NKHABELANE    45734356

Stereotype is a preconceived and oversimplified idea of the characteristics which typify a person, race or community which may lead to treating them in a particular way. They are based on narrow understanding and often used to make assumptions about individuals and groups of people.

With my experience in high school people and most of the teachers believed that when coming to schoolwork girls were better at languages than boys, and boys were better in math. And this claims that boys are more rational and therefore are more gifted in science and girls are more emotional and creative and therefore better in arts and literature. And it wasn't even close to being like that because there were also girls actually more girls who were doing exceptionally well in math and science than boys, so I just believe it depends on an individual not gender.

And I went to a public school and this one is also a common stereotype in our everyday lives.  There is also a misinformation that people who goes to private schools are smarter than people who goes to public school. How so? Because we end up going to the same universities, same colleges and end up doing the same courses. I strongly argue that in view of the fact that they just have access to many things that public schools don't have, and they have advanced technology compared to public school.

In conclusion I say none of these stereotypes make sense and none of them has an impact in our lives since its just based on people's opinions.