Cultural Stereotyping and its Effect on Power Balance in English and Arabic
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Most individuals, especially adults, usually have a set of images which is completely stored in their minds. These images are utilized to stereotype a particular person or a specific social group whether in Western or Eastern culture, these images are stereotypes. Therefore, some people may often face difficulties to change their stereotype because it is categorized as an essential and obvious portion of human everyday life, especially in the way of judging others. Moreover, cultural stereotyping is usually happened out of an individual's knowledge, for this reason, it influences one's judgment whether positive or negative through revealing the way of behavior toward others.
Through concentrating on the relationship between categories of stereotype (gender, age and race) and power, such relation would clarify how cultural stereotyping specifies its effect on power balance in two different cultures (English and Arabic). In other words, individuals who have a high degree of power often tend to stereotype their subordinates more strongly in any community whereas, powerless people always are stereotyped negatively by those who are over them. This study comes to reveal the big three categories of stereotype and utilize them in some proverbs to investigate the effect of stereotype by focusing on the degree of power that one's may have over others in Western and Eastern communities.
This study is presented in six sections. An introduction which gives a general presentation of stereotype as a sociolinguistic phenomenon. The second section presents some important and basic concepts related to this study. The third section outlines the categories of stereotype in detail. The fourth section sheds the light on the influence of power on stereotype. The fifth section deals with data analysis of English texts. The sixth section with deals with data analysis of Arabic texts with focusing on gender category of stereotype. The study is concluded with the discussion of the findings reached at.
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