The phrase "combat stereotypes" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to fight or challenge commonly held beliefs or assumptions about a certain group or concept. Example: In her speech, the activist called for more efforts to combat stereotypes surrounding immigrants and refugees.
We must combat stereotypes: Lutherans are not all Motrin-crazed, cider-guzzling bicyclists.
"We still have a long way to go to effectively combat stereotypes and biases," Burckart said.
The show's most revered yet hotly debated aspect was its attempt to combat stereotypes about African American families.
This is at a time when our need to understand Islamic culture — to define terms, combat stereotypes — is beyond pressing.
The group's idea sprouted from a seven-week Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program, a camp that aims to combat stereotypes about coders and to encourage high school girls to pursue computer science education.
One simple-yet-effective way to combat stereotypes is to raise awareness of how stereotypes affect decision-making.
It was the ADL that took out a major advertisement in this newspaper after 9/11, with the headline "Let Us Not Fight Hatred With Hatred," to combat stereotyping and violence against Muslims after the terrorist attack.
WIG has been working for 30 years to combat stereotyping on both sides, we have found that through learning together to learn is the most positive way of encouraging good partnerships.
They ran workshops about combatting stereotypes, creating networking skills, and serving our own communities.
To Backer, it's not just about combatting stereotypes head-on, but about showing how her everyday life is perfectly compatible with European life.
Locke sees this as the unfortunate consequence of the past need to proffer counter-stereotypes to combat demeaning stereotypes of Negro persons.
