In the article Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother author Amy Chua claims the stereotypical success of the Chinese kids have a lot to do with the Chinese parenting style which is often at odds with the Western parenting style. Amy claims even when Western parents think they are being...

The animated television series The Simpsons is a wonderful portrayal of the stereotypes and typical lifestyles of middle class American suburbia, and can be used to illustrate a number of key social theories and trends. Through the individuality and imperfectness of the characters, the show writers were left with a...

An article ‘The Gender Marketing of Toys: An Analysis of Color and Type of Toy on the Disney Store Website’ written by Carol Auster and Claire Mansbach touches upon one of the most relevant issues in today’s social functioning such as gender stereotyping in the toy industry. The particular topic...

Willa Cather’s novel My Antonia was highly regarded as one of the first books to bring the story of early American immigrants to the Midwest to life. In considering that the depiction of immigrants in 1918 describing the 1880s, and the 130 years that have passed since that time, it...

Generally, stereotypes have been used in ParaNorman to show us how we are often made to things that might not actually be true. We have all grown up in communities where certain groups of people or even races have been stereotyped, and we end up believing them as the truth....