The Dangers Of Stereotypes In Spare Parts By Joshua Ravis

What Is a Stereotype? The definition of a stereotype is any commonly known public belief about a certain social group or a type of individual. Stereotypes are often created about people of specific cultures or races. Stereotyping is a big problem, and everyone can be affected by it. There are many ways to stereotype a person such as, all white Americans are obese, lazy, and dumb, men who spend too much time on the computer or read are geeks, that all Mexicans are lazy and came into America illegally, all Arabs and Muslims are terrorists, or that all Americans are generally considered to be friendly, generous, and tolerant. All of these examples of stereotyping are found in the novel, Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Joshua Davis, published on December 2, 2014. This is a nonfiction/documentary book that follows the true story of how four undocumented teens from Mexico, leaving in Arizona, are joined by two teachers who were able to beat some of the best engineering schools

Mr. Lajvardi was also an immigrant, but was from Iran, he later received his U.S. citizenship at the age of nineteen. Mr. Lajvardi was not noticed much in school, but when news broke out that a revolution had erupted in Iran, and American hostage were taken, all his classmates suddenly started to pay attention to him and heckle him. His parents, who were respected doctors in their town, were also being subjected to this stereotyping, many businesses in the town had put up “NO IRANIANS” signs in their windows, and this was spreading all across the country. By Stereotyping people based on their race, we are subjecting them to cruelty that they do not deserve, solely based on actions that reflect only a few people of that whole