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Hidden event     In our society we are brainwashed every day and draw been since we have exited the womb. What we dont realize is that we need to train our headland on our own to rise above all the systematically programmed propaganda. Unfortunately, callable to this brain washing we are born into, we come packaged and captive with the lovely word stereotype prejudice embedded deep in our mind without knowledge of it until it is confronted and exposed by pure ignorance      Now when you go to a dictionary the first definition most the likely to be seen for stereotype is 1 like so " n. 1. a process, now oft replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a imprint of composed type or the like in papier-mch or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal. 2. a plate do by this process. 3. a set form convention" (Websters,797). Further follow out from that definition should be something like "v.t. 1. to make a stereotype of. 2. to remember or regard as a stereotype" (Websters,797). Although this definition is in a dictionary, the true meaning is far beyond that mild perception. The memorial of the word itself is a quite interesting one. In English, "stereo" is interpreted from the Greek "stere" or "stereo" - and which meant solid or solid body. in the first place it was used to describe metal printing. "The conversion from printing to human psychological science may have been commenced by early Russian neurophysiologists during the Pavlov period when stimulus-response motor mechanisms were being researched in animals and humans. In that sense, "dynamic stereotype" came to refer to the end-result of cortical analysis and synthesis of all stimuli arising from both the external and the internal knowledge base if the same response always occurred relative to the same stimulus" (Swann). emboss evolved into something all of us recognize, not as a type of printing, scarce as the negative word and feeling it is today.      In society stereotyping is some us constantly. Womens issues, homosexual issues, minority issues, everyday someone is confronted with a stereotype. For example, my friend Omar who is African American has been pulled over and harassed by the law of nature for absolutely nothing. I was there and they didnt even ask me one question. They completely ignored me until I asked them what Omar did wrong. They just replied with "Mind your own fear kid" I never knew what is was to be like in Omars shoes that day and I never will.