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Pope Francis has decried the "inhuman" conditions facing migrants crossing the US-Mexico border and has encouraged communities there not to judge people by stereotypes but welcome migrants and work to end discrimination.
Her eyes "filled with tears and she said 'I can't have it, it says they're only for boys.'" But Izzy decided not to take it lying down and, following a quick chat with her mother about gender stereotypes , she wrote to Disney to explain her sadness about how the costume was labelled.
That's what justice looks like to Coshelle Greene, a modern mother who rose above stereotypes and circumstances that have pushed so many other parents to turn their backs on people like her son.
My CV is tailored to contradict the stereotypes associated with obesity.
It seems madness that in 2014 such barriers and stereotypes still have to be challenged.
As Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie summed it up: "The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete".
He made up sentences that helped explain to him, and therefore others in his dire, inhibiting situation, the bottled-up the pain he felt at being underestimated, pinned down, ignored, driven into the thieving, violence and ganged-up mischief that confirms all mercilessly applied stereotypes.
Today's front cover bothers me only in one regard and that is in the racial stereotypes employed in the depiction of the prophet Muhammad, a shorthand here for Arabs and Muslims more broadly.
It's exciting to see a new generation of girls who already feel able, aged as young as eight, to stand up for themselves and declare their right to step outside the rigid pink and blue boundaries of gender stereotypes.
The latter is particularly notable, as it encapsulates alcohol's enduring and addictive appeal as a rapid means of pain or stress relief across the entire spectrum of employees, regardless of social stereotypes.
Except here one of the friends gets turned into a monstrous succubus and starts eating her way – on a monthly, and Cody affirms, not strictly LUNAR, schedule – through the full gamut of high school boy stereotypes : pierced goth kid, offensive linebacker, wannabe ladies man etc.
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The primary grammatical function of "stereotypes" is that of a plural noun . It typically functions as the subject or object of a verb, representing preconceived and often oversimplified ideas about groups of people. As Ludwig AI explains, it is a word used to describe an oversimplified and often prejudiced image or idea associated with a particular group of people.
Expression frequency: Very common
