Stereotypes In The Helen Story

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The stereotype is a thought that can be adopted about specific types of some people or of doing something. Many people can be stereotyped in way that sometimes are correct or incorrect. So, the unfair stereotype are racial and discrimination. Such as in the Helen story when she was a stereotype of Asian people in America. Helen said “ My brothers and I would sit in the theater with all the other kids in town watching the brave Zero pilots prepare an attack only to be intercepted by the all-American heroes-who were, always white. Then the entire audience would scream, “Kill them, Kill them, Kill them!”-meaning the Japanese. When the movie was over and the lights came on, I wanted to be invisible so that my neighbors would not think of my

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