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Stereotyping in Society     I think it is pretty hard to go through a week with expose experiencing at least two or three incidents where someone or a group of people is being sterotyped. Whether it comes from jokes, television, comics, or just hearing people talk about other people, stereotyping is slightly all the time.     The first example of stereotyping that I witnessed comes from the television show "That 70s Show." At least every episode the "crew," or group of friends always hang out, and they prolong a foreign exchange student for a friend. They dont know what country hes from but they always make fun of foreigners on the show. They crack jokes about him floating over on a raft to the United States and always make references to him being from different countries that hes not from just because his skin is dark. The jokes are funny and they arent conjectural to hurt the characters feelings, but they are very stereot ypical.     I saw a commercial the other day that was an advertisement for using protection during sex to attend the fight against the spread of support. The commercial starts out talking about how African Americans represent the leaders of sports because they assimilate the best basketball players, leaders in baseball, and have the fastest track runners. Then at the end of the commercial they say that they are also leading the population of the United States in being diagnosed with the AIDS virus.      When I saw the commercial I didnt really know where it was going and it is good that it ended with a serious message, but I didnt really pit with the way they presented it. It is probably true that African Americans make up most of some sports, but they didnt have to make it sounds like African Americans are original to white people when it comes to sports.     The third example that I witnessed was from the show Seinfe ld. It was the episode where the character Elaine met a new boyfriend and she didnt know what race he was. The guy wire was slightly dark complected and a different race than white was expected so Elaine kept on taking him to different restaurants trying to figure out what race he was.