Stereotypes+OJ2

A. What do you understand by the term "stereotype"? What is the definition?
 * Assignment ** : - Copy the info below. Paste it on a wiki page that you create called ** Stereotype //initials//. **


 * Stereotypes can be an assumption of a person after just looking at the surface of the group being stereotyped.
 * ======Dictionary.com definition: a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and common by members of a group. ======

B. View a story about stereotypes: The Good Samaritan Then discuss
 * 1) Are stereotypes new? **~**No, in this case, it goes way back the time of Jesus' time
 * 2) How do you think stereotypes come about? **~**It can be an wrong assumption of a group just judged on by one person, and a group of people agree with it.
 * 3) Do we only create stereotypes of people we fear or distrust? **~**No, for example the stereotypes of the 'dumb blonde', which is usually brought up when a blonde is criticized by weather or not they get an answer or not.
 * 4) Do stereotypes ever have any truth in them? **~**Sometimes they do, but most of the time, it's over-hyped.

C. View the info on the links below. Detail both positive and negative representations.
 * The Ransom of Red Chief
 * Choctaw Nation helped Ireland during 1847 famine
 * How Squanto became a Thanksgiving Symbol
 * Time to do away with the Redskins labels
 * School mascots blamed for escalation of stereotypes
 * Indian Mascot PSA


 * In summary, these links provide situations where people were helped or assisted by Native Americans and some view points are positive and others have negative view points. People at times didn't even want to be helped but were helped anyways. In other situations, not included here, college teams and major leagues asked to change their mascot and/or their team name. For example, FSU has been and is constantly protested by certain group supporting the name change to the team due to the stereotype the team provides, due to the ritual of the horse rearing back before a football game. Though protesters against changing the name/mascot say that there is no stereotype being provided by the college or the ritual. Plus, with the team name, "The Seminoles" was also used to identify the group, The Seminoles, that the college got the name from.

D. If we were to develop a mascot for Incarnation Catholic School, what would the mascot be? How would he/she be dressed? How would it present ICS?


 * A mascot that comes to mind is a four leaf clover, possibly similar to Notre Dame's mascot with similar clothes. It would represent the Irish side and how proud we are to be ' filed' under Irish.

E. What is the mascot of the high school you will attend next year? Explain how does it represents the school?


 * Tampa Catholic has the mascot of a crusader, now called "The Crusaders". Tampa Catholic, though I'm not entirely sure, had no specific reason to have the Crusader as a mascot, but the same year, they changed their colors to white and green. Also, the mascot before that was a colt, and they were known as "Tampa Catholic Colts."