Discussion
During a class activity, the teacher asked students to select dolls which identified closely with Adivasis. Most of the students picked up dolls wearing colourful clothes, head gear and in dancing postures. What does this behaviour demonstrate ?
Answer: B
The behaviour demonstrates a stereotype.
The students picked dolls in colourful clothes, head gear and dancing postures because they hold a fixed, simplified image of all Adivasis as exotic, colourful people who are always dancing. Applying one image to an entire, very diverse group is a stereotype, and textbooks on diversity use this very example.
Discrimination is acting on such ideas to treat people unequally, which the students did not do. Prejudice is a negative judgement of a group, while this image is not necessarily hostile. Progressiveness is the opposite of what the behaviour shows.
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