Surveys

Breaking stereotypes team, made a filed research (survey) on a number of various groups from the same social sector, especially (university students at faculty of Al-Alsun)

The survey contained some questions about stereotyping seeking the students' opinions and views about the topic.

1-what do you know about stereotyping?

2-do you stereotyping is a natural phenomenon depends on the social factors or it's just an action adopted by some people?

3-do you have any idea , why people tend to stereotype others?

4-have you ever been stereotyped?

5-what do you think about those who stereotype people all the time?

After applying these questions on a group of students, we got so many answers which varied according to the experiences of each person

* Rehab Safwt (student at third class English department) , said that "we cannot judge people according to their appearance only or making opinions without evidences, stereotyping is unfair in this sense"

While the answer was " stereotyping is what people say about you which is not the truth" when we asked Dina helal " what do you know about stereotyping"

Another discussion took place between the interviewers and a group of students about the question of "why some people tend to stereotype others? And the answers was as follows:

Gehad Mohamed (a student at Turkish department) said that "this may depend on the social environment of those people"

Samar Ismail said ironically the opposite of what her friend said and told her; "NO this has nothing to do with cultural, social factors or whatever, this action is just taken "individually" which means, there is no a whole society know for stereotyping other societies, now you are yourself stereotyping a whole society"

Nouran Mohsen replied with "stereotyping mean racism" "I hate stereotyping because this means that you are shallow person who judges people upon No fact"

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When it comes to the question of " Do you have any experiences with stereotyping? We were somehow shocked that most of the answers were almost the same

Fathi moustafa (student at Russian department) said that "I was stereotyped by being an introvert person who does not know how to socialize with others and all my colleagues spread this among them, but this is not the truth, it is all about love being alone and having some time to start acting friendly to others but this does not mean I am introvert or anything else, this is just my nature"

While Mohamed fawzy (student at the same department) said "I am always stereotyped as Muslim brotherhood member, just because I am argumentative person in politics ", his colleagues Mohamed kamal and Mohamed tarek suddenly said " this also happened with us"

They were being stereotyped as thing that-in fact- they are not, because others do love to frame them and categories others, Is not that unfair for any one??

We met another group and actually the answer was the same, most of people within our society are specified by their political thoughts. Even if they are not that what they are being called, but it seems that in recent years people in Egypt are being stereotyped and generalized according to what they talk about mostly

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When it comes to the question of what is the impact of stereotyping on people and society, we noticed that even those who could not figure out the meaning of stereotyping at first they rejected firmly this action after knowing the true definition of stereotyping

Ghada saiid and Abeer Mohamed (students of English department) said " when we are stereotyped as being girls who do not know how to fight or to correctly park their cars or even by being weak and so on, it really hurts and makes you want to punch the person who said so in the face, and they asked wonderingly " why people do such things?!! We are different, everyone should only focus on their own stuff because this way we can be a great society not by labeling others in streets or college or even facebook.

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At last, when we asked the students if they ever tend to stereotype others some answered negatively and other positively

Islam Adel (student at Russian department) said I never stereotyped others , I am always aware of the fact that generalization is not a good attitude at all we cannot label people as what we want them to be.

But, Marwa Bakry admitted that she sometimes stereotypes people but this is unconsciously happens with her " I listen to people say so and so about others then I just believe, but I will begin thinking about that, I think I should be aware of what I am thinking about.. I do not love to be stereotyped so I will stop stereotyping"

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 The above data shows how university students think about stereotyping and its effects on people and society.

Our team wanted to get a close look on what stereotyping means to others ,and Are they aware of the results of it or they are just acting unconsciously?

Our motto is "stop labeling, start living"

So we only want to hear people and to correct wrong ideas as much as we can, and we started from here..

   Breaking stereotypes