Stereotype as a concept refers to a widely held or fixed and over simplified image or an idea of a particular type of person or group. 
Stigmatisation refers to the action of regarding someone or something as worthy of disgrace or great disapproval. 
Otherness then refers to the quality or fact of being different. 
These three words carry a very important and heavy weight meaning in terms of how people are viewed in the real world. In terms of social anthropology these meanings are sometimes true.

In light of The dangers of a single story presented by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, I learned that parents or family members sometimes play a role in planting and teaching their children stereotypes and stigma ideas. She says her mother always stigmatised their helper’s family as “poor” people despite the great things that the can create because she never took time to get to know them and then had a generalised idea  of how they live according to how she sees them. This reflected in a bad way on her side because the one time she got to see their work and talent at there home, she struggled to unsee the “poor family “ that she was told about because that’s just how she was brought up to. 

She also experienced a sense of stereotype when her roommate in the USA assumed that she couldn’t use a stove and by also feeling sorry for her just because she is from Africa. This made me realise that people from other coy assume that Africa is a poor continent as a whole although majority of them have never been there , they just judge based on the facts of one person. Tha shows that people tend to generalise others in terms of what they hear without confirming whether it’s true or not. 

The negative side of this can result in people not getting opportunities to pursue certain interests because they have been painted in a certain manner without getting to know them. For instance, in the Body ritual among the Nacirema they emphasised that this logically combinations have not been formed anywhere in the world. So the magical beliefs of the Nacirema present unusual aspects that it seems desirable to describe them as an example of extremes to which human behaviour can go. According to professor Linton ( 1963) the ritual of the Nacirema has been brought to the attention of anthropologists that the culture of people is still very poorly understood.

Therefor the question remains , DO WE STILL WANNA SEE OURSELVES LIVING IN A SOCIETY THAT OVERSEES PEOPLE BASED ON STEROTYPE AND STIGMATISATION? or do we wanna bring that to an end ?