Survey Says...

The survey we conducted using SurveyMonkey was a success. We shared the link through Edmodo, as well as social media apps like Instagram and Twitter; many of our peers shared it with others outside of our school as well. Thank you so much to everyone who participated! The results gave us a better look at how people think and view the topic of prejudice. In total, we had 42 responses and each one was unique. We first asked the responder their age in order to see trends and if demographics effect views. Along with that, we had 9 more creating 10 in total. The questions were as follows -

1.) How old are you?

2.) Have you ever experienced/witness stereotyping?

3.) If yes to the first question, briefly discuss what happened?

4.) Have you ever stereotyped someone? If so, describe what happened.

5.) What is a common stereotype in our society?

6.) How racially/ethnically biased is our world?

7.) Do you believe misconceptions about ethnicity affect the people of it?

8.) Name one way prejudice and stereotypes limit individuals?

9.) Do you enjoy experiencing or learning about different cultures?

10.) Should there be more education for the awareness of cultures, bias, stereotypes, and prejudice?

Many of the responses gave a good amount of basic stereotypes in our world. The most submitted stereotypes were "Hispanics are dirty," "Asians are smart," "Blacks are thugs," and "Muslims are terrorists." From the news and media in America, we can see a lot of these in play for many crimes and events like shootings. People also responded with saying acts of stereotyping they have witnessed. 

 Being asian, people just assume I'm great at math

A woman glanced over at an African American family and immediately called security

I'm seen as skinnier than normal, and a few people started calling me anorexic, despite me telling them I wasn't at all.

being mocked for eating chicken and waffles

When my hair was blonde and I did or said something that my family would think was dumb, they would always say "well you are a blonde now"

all Hispanics being immigrants

White girls love starbucks and ugg boots

Theirs so many, thats what making the society even worst. Example: people focus on people sneaking through imigration or certian neighborhoods or certian color of a person

black men scary, brown people terrorists, white people basic, africans poor

Once asked to describe a time someone has stereotyped another, we received a myriad of different answers. 

Yes. There was this guy who I thought was in the academy (for high school) but he wasn't and I kind of thought that because he was Asian. And Asians are supposed to be "smart".

Yes. I assumed my friend who was black could play basketball. Big mistake.

A group of black people walking around in a low income neighborhood, thought of gangs immediately

My white friend came over my house and I assumed he wanted some pasta salad

I was joking around with my friends and I said you look like a terrorist.

All in all, the survey was very helpful in getting feedback to help us solve our issue of stereotypes and prejudice towards people. Below we have included screenshots of the results for the rest of the survey.