Stereotypes are a kind of gossip about the world, a gossip that makes us pre-judge people before we ever lay eyes on them. _____42_____ Explore most prejudices and you will find a cruel stereotype at the core of each one.
Why is it that we stereotype the world in such irrational and harmful fashion? In part, we begin to typecast people in our childhood years. _____43_____ Some years ago, a social psychologist showed very clearly how powerful these stereotypes of childhood vision are. He secretly asked the most popular youngsters in an elementary school to make errors in their morning gym exercises. Afterward, he asked the class if anyone had noticed any mistakes during the gym period. “Oh, yes,” said the children. _____44_____ .
We not only grow up with standardized pictures forming inside of us, but as grown-ups, we are constantly having them thrust upon us. _____45_____ Still other stereotypes are perpetuated by the advertisements we read, the movies we see, and the books we read.
【題組】43 (A)Early in life, we learn to spot the Good Guys from the Bad Guys on TV shows or in movies.
(B)We tend to stereotype because it helps us to make sense out of the highly confusing world.
(C)But it was the unpopular members of the class—the “bad guys”—they remembered as being out of step.
(D)Some of them, like the stereotypes of mothers-in-law or cops, are dinned into us by the stock jokes we hear and repeat.
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