Question

Whenever Ashley needs to meet with the programmer assigned to her department, Rajiv who was born in India, she is anxious because she believes all Indian men have sexist attitudes toward women. Ashley is ______Rajiv.

Answer 1

Answer: Ashley is stereotyping Rajiv

Explanation:

Stereotyping is the belief that one has about a particular category of people. Stereotyping is an expectation which people may have about every individual of a particular group. Such expectation varies and can be expectation about personality, ability or preferences.

There is generalization in stereotypes because the individual believes that the stereotype is true for every individual in the category. Ashley is exhibiting stereotypes

about cultures as he believes that all Indian men have sexist attitude towards women. Other examples of stereotype of this sort are that white Americans are lazy and that Arabs are terrorists.

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct word for the blank space is: stereotyping.

Explanation:

Stereotypes are negative behaviors towards an individual or group of people. Those behaviors lead to discrimination and are caused when the stereotyping individual has (mostly incorrect) beliefs about certain people. Those beliefs are fed by mistaken ideas usually spread in society implying that people of a given community are one way or another and block the individuals' capacity of establishing relationships with those other people.