Stereotypes And Virtue Traditions

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Inclusivity begins with one’s openness to the other. Openness to the other is “a transformative capacity that can help existing cultural and virtue traditions to remain vibrant, self-reflective, and open-ended,” (Fowers & Davidov, 2006).
Stereotyping, or grouping all members of a culture, whether positive or negative or true or false, reduces them to their perceived traits and does not emphasize individuality.
In learning individuating information, one discovers how each person from that culture not only has the potential to adhere to stereotypes or not, but that each person is more complex than the stereotypes to which society reduces them (Yeung & Kashima, 2010).
Just-world beliefs are another factor which may lead to prejudice about other cultures. To believe that everyone gets what they deserve blames minority groups for systemic flaws and is an example of the fundamental attribution error on a societal scale. …show more content…

To fight social competition, one should learn that one culture is not inherently more correct or civilized than another, and all cultures have strengths and weaknesses.
Realizing that all people are genetically related at a distance that is likely closer than society likes to suggest helps one to humanize and feel connected to other cultures.
Western society values competition and compartmentalization. Adopting a cooperative viewpoint helps one to empathize with other cultures (Aronson, 2012).
Once one internalizes a multiculturalist viewpoint, they can then set an example via Bandura’s theory of observational learning (Bandura, Ross & Ross, 1961).
Lastly, being culturally aware requires experience with each particular culture. One should be willing to try or learn about multicultural food, music, arts, and philosophy.

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