Sentences with phrase «existing stereotypes»

To suggest these exultant visions of beauty constitute a reflexive confirmation of existing stereotypes of Los Angeles as a vacuum filled with pretty airheads speaks more to the biases of the accuser than to those of Malick.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has given more than $ 1 million in prizes and grants for films that «challenge existing stereotypes [read: mad, evil, or bumbling] of scientists and engineers.»

The focus on educational struggles and failures only serves to compound education problems and confirm existing stereotypes.

For other students, it is more a case of re-considering what they thought they knew about different cultures and / or re-comparing their own culture to those of others — which may help overturn existing stereotypes or faulty assumptions (though may also lead to some of the pitfalls listed below).

The authors note that existing stereotypes about gender and reading lead to a «gap [that] may reflect boys» fear of confirming the negative stereotype about their gender group in reading, rather than intrinsic gender differences favoring females in reading ability and motivation.»

History: In early 2007, Bless the Bullys introduced the idea of an annual National Pit Bull Awareness Day, encouraging pit bull advocates everywhere to host celebratory events in an effort to garner positive media attention, promote responsible ownership and combat existing stereotypes.

Games today often use existing stereotypes and characters we can quickly understand without putting much effort into those characters personality.

Intended or not, there's an existing stereotype and damaging tradition that the film plays with, in which Africa is painted as a savage, prehistoric, and unearthly place.

Firstly, the cinematographer is Rachel Morrison and she made sure to perform her best and break the existing stereotype.

Findings from survey research seem to support these general assumptions.1, 2 With surveys, however, participants report their own feelings, so it may be that participants feel pressure to conform to existing stereotypes.

Rather than ask men and women how they consciously feel, in order to get to their true feelings, two University of New Brunswick researchers measured participants» unfiltered feelings by tapping into their automatic responses.3 The researchers hypothesized that participants unfiltered responses may not conform to existing stereotypes.