How Does Stereotypes Affect Children

Many thoughts come into the mind when hearing the word stereotype. The society has been exposed to too many stereotypes. These stereotypes result in controversial issues, which in turn, affect adults and children. The TV shows, internet, and social media are sources that expose children, as well as the adults, to stereotypes. Examples of those stereotypes are religion, sexism, and race. As children grow up by, the age of four they are able to pick up many stereotypes through those sources and without the perception and knowledge these children carry these stereotypes along with them in their long term memory. Moreover, children are not able to know or distinguish whether those thoughts are negative or positive stereotypes, which in turn, cause

them to become stereotyped people without perception that they are of practicing it on other people.
Watching an hour of cartoon known as “Kim Possible,” about two episodes, this show illustrates the teenagers challenging each other to be first place, fears of camping, mutation of a genes in magical lake, and teenagers accusing each other in schools using certain types of words.

The show starts with Kim Possible, who is part of a cheerleader team at her school, but she gets into an argument with another girl called “Bonnie,” who is team member, about who jumps to be at the tope in order to give the pyramid shape as they dance together. In the same place her friend Ron stoppable who is always carrying his hamster “Rufus,” which appears in the episode as a smart, thinking, and talking hamster similar to humans. The school decides to take the students for camping and also to have a competition among cheerleaders of different schools. However, Ron had an awful experience about camping where he was accused by a boy who had the fish appearance called Gill. This boy exposes himself to magical green lake and causes his genes to become mutant then transforms his body to a giant green fish. As a result, Ron still remembers the name of the campaign which is called “Camp Wanna Weep.” This relates to the classical conditioning where camping is the natural

stimulus.
Kim tries to calm Ron down telling him that he is not going to have the same experience. While the student, Kim and Ron were on the bus to the camping, they become shock when their principal announces to the students that they are going to change the camping place because of the other schools. Ron freaks more and panics, but then Kim tries to calm him down using the method of encouragement. After arriving, Kim gets out of the bus and asks Ron to have positive expression and that this camping is going to be different, but while he comes down he slips from the bus falling back on the sign. When this happens the sign of “Camp Gottagrin” falls and the old camp appears with the name “Camp Wanna Weep.” In that moment, Ron remembers everything about Gill and finds out that he is with him in the same campion, but he finds out that he was treated from the gene mutation and he is a normal person now.
However, Kim finds out that her roommate is Bonnie. Both of them are upset, but they had to deal with the situation and accept the fact that they share the same room. Kim’s parents are characterized as authoritative while Bonnie’s parents are characterized as permissive and did not believe in punishment. Bonnie, represents the egocentrism stereotype who tries to take control of everything, chose the top bed without asking Kim. On the other hand, Ron was trying to protect himself from Gill by watching him most of the time and following him to know his plans. This stereotype shows how Ron becomes paranoid and suspicious bout Gill’s actions towards him. In the morning, Kim woke up very tired and exhausted because Bonnie was snoring most of the night. While the competition starts, Bonnie tries to be the first in the cheerleader team to win, and because Kim is tired, she becomes the second. Ron, sometimes, still follows Gill who tries to be nice to Ron, so he can prove to Ron that he is friendly and no longer the giant green fish.
As days pass, Kim figures a strategy to manage her sleeping and sharing the room with Bonnie. Those strategies are waking up in the early morning, taking shower with all the hot water, and unplugging the alarm for Bonnie. Moreover, Gill tries his outfit that makes him look like green giant lizard, then, Ron runs in hurry to the stage, announcing that Gill is a monster, but then Gill takes the mask off and tells Ron that this is his outfit for the competition. As a result all the student in the audience start calling Ron loser and threw foods and drinks on him. Regarding everything that happened to Ron, he still believes that Gill still has a gene mutation that causes him to change. While the competition starts between the cheerleaders’ teams, Ron follows Gill and sees him going toward the green lake. When Gill came out of the lake, he was already turning back to a green giant fish. Therefore, Ron runs back to the students in order to warn them.
Gill however, looks for Ron and tries to capture him, but Ron runs with his hamster, Rufus. On the other hand, Kim tries to help Ron, but she gets stuck along with Bonnie because of the sticky stuff that gill throws at her. As Ron and Rufus are running, they think to go inside the lake in order to become giants and as huge as Gill. After swimming in the lake, Ron becomes a giant hamster, and with the help of Kim and Bonnie after they help each other and get off the sticky stuff together, they were able to capture Gill. Finally his doctor was brought to take him, and Ron was given chemicals to wash himself; therefore, he went back to his normal body shape. After all, neither Kim nor Bonnie won the golden stick, but Ron told them that even in losing the lesson, that you should learn is that working together makes things different.