第42回 WORKSHOP報告(8月4日) / 参加者59名

みなさまこんにちは。

8月4日(土)に開催されたworkshopの報告をさせていただきます。

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《 今回のworkshop 》

 

○workshop参加人数:59名(うち新人の方:10名)

○【前半】: 「新人・後輩指導」をテーマとしたディスカッション

○【後半】:「ステレオタイプ」をテーマとしたディスカッション

 

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<英語サークル E’s club 第42回workshopのご案内>

 

みなさまこんにちは、E’s club幹事です。第42回workshopの詳細をお送りいたします。

今回のマテリアルは前半をKさんに、後半をJさんに作成していただきました。

前半は「新人・後輩指導」を、後半は「ステレオタイプ」をそれぞれテーマとしたディスカッションを行います。

 

[今週のマテリアル]

<FIRST HALF>

~educating newcomers~

 

皆様いつもお世話になっております、Kと申します。

私は現在職場で新入社員の指導員を担当しており、人に“教える”ことの難しさや責任を感じています。

今回は“新人・後輩指導”をテーマとさせていただきました。

社会人の方は新入社員時代を、学生の方はアルバイトや部活動での新人時代を振り返っていただき、話し合っていただければと思います。

 

(6人テーブルでstart)

①Is there any unusual rule or habit at your office or school?

If there is, how did your senior teach it to you? How did you feel about it?

(あなたの会社や学校には変わった習慣がありますか?もしあれば、あなたは先輩からそれをどのように学びましたか?その時どう感じましたか?)

 

②Do you have your own rule you keep in mind when giving guidance or advice to your junior?

If you’re not seniors, what point do you think you should keep in mind when you become seniors?

(自分が後輩を指導する際に気を付けていること、または今後指導する立場になった時に気を付けたいことはありますか?)

 

③Are there any words given from your senior that left a deep impression on you?

(あなたが先輩から受けた言葉などで印象に残っていることはありますか?)

 

④Make a group of three, and decide the role for each.

A:new employee  B:senior at work  C:observer

Choose a case from the list below and A/B act your role. C gives a feedback to B to tell how the statement was effective.

If you finish, choose another case and continue.

(三人グループになり、A新入社員役 B先輩社員役 Cフィードバック役と役割を決めてください。下記からケースを選び、ABの役割を演じてください。CはBの良かった点をフィードバックしてください。終わったら役割を交代し、次のケースへ進んでください。)

 

【Cases of problematic behaviors of new employees】

・don’t say one’s opinion at the meeting.

・reporting that the work is not finished just before the deadline.

・always leaving the desk very messy.

・drinking non-alcohol beer at office.

・going to bathroom and don’t come back for a long long time.

・leaving office when others are working busily saying “I have a date today.”

 

 

<LATTER HALF>

Title: “Stereotypes”

 

1.What do you think about the Stereotypes in the article#1 ?

 

2.There would be some “Stereotypes” of Japanese people. (or the people of your country) What do you think are they?

 

*Share your experience of being judged by those stereotypes, if you have any.

 

3.Discuss those stereotypes above.

 

*If you think some of them make sense, then why?

 

*If there are stereotypes you don’t agree with, then why not?

 

4.Some argue that stereotypes could be useful tools sometimes. Think about that and share your idea.

 

5.Even though stereotypes could be useful tools sometimes, they are generally regarded what you should throw away. Why is that? ( Refer to the article#2)

 

<article#1>

Stereotype Examples  (the article of “YOUR DICTIONARY”)

 

To understand different examples of stereotypes, you should first define what a stereotype is. Any time you grouping races or individuals together and make a judgment about them without knowing them, this is an example of a stereotype. Racial remarks, sexual remarks, and gender remarks are the biggest stereotypes.

 

Common Stereotypes

 

African Americans

One of the more common stereotype examples is stereotypes surrounding African Americans. Saying that all African Americans are good at sports is a stereotype, because it’s grouping the race together to indicate that everyone of that race is a good athlete.

 

Men and Women

There are also some common stereotypes of men and women, such as:

 

・Men are strong and do all the work.

・Men are the “backbone.”

・Women aren’t as smart as a man.

・Women can’t do as good of a job as a man.

・Girls are not good at sports.

・Guys are messy and unclean.

・Men who spend too much time on the computer or read are geeks.

 

Cultures

Stereotypes also exist about cultures an countries as a whole. Stereotype examples of this sort include the premises that:

 

・All white Americans are obese, lazy, and dim-witted. Homer Simpson of the TV series The Simpsons is the personification of this stereotype.

・Mexican stereotypes suggest that all Mexicans are lazy and came into America illegally.

・All Arabs and Muslims are terrorists.

・All people who live in England have bad teeth.

・Italian or French people are the best lovers.

・All African Americans outside of the United States are poor.

・All Jews are greedy.

・All Asians are good at math. All Asians like to eat rice and drive slow.

・All Irish people are drunks and eat potatoes.

・All Americans are generally considered to be friendly, generous, and tolerant, but also arrogant, impatient, and domineering.

 

Groups of Individuals

A different type of stereotype also involves grouping of individuals. Skaters, Goths, Gangsters, and Preps are a few examples. Most of this stereotyping is taking place in schools. For example:

 

・Goths wear black clothes, black makeup, are depressed and hated by society.

・Punks wear mohawks, spikes, chains, are a menace to society and are always getting in trouble.

・All politicians are philanders and think only of personal gain and benefit.

・Girls are only concerned about physical appearance.

・All blonds are unintelligent.

・All librarians are women who are old, wear glasses, tie a high bun, and have a perpetual frown on their face.

・All teenagers are rebels.

・All children don’t enjoy healthy food.

・Only anorexic women can become models.

 

Sexual Stereotypes

Sexual stereotypes, on the other hand, suggest that any feminine man is gay and any masculine woman is a lesbian. Those who believe gay stereotypes may also believe that homosexuality is immoral, wrong and an abomination.

 

What Is a Stereotype

The definition of a stereotype is any commonly known public belief about a certain social group or a type of individual. Stereotypes are often confused with prejudices, because, like prejudices, a stereotype is based on a prior assumption. Stereotypes are often created about people of specific cultures or races.

 

Almost every culture or race has a stereotype, including Jewish people, African American people, Irish people, and Polish people, among others.

 

Stereotypes are not just centered on different races and backgrounds, however. Gender stereotypes also exist. For example, if you say that men are better than women, you’re stereotyping all men and all women. If you say that all women like to cook, you are stereotyping women.

 

Sexual orientation stereotypes are also common. These stereotypes occur when you have negative views on gays, lesbians, and transgender individuals. People who have these negative views are often known as homophobic.

 

Why Is it Bad to Stereotype?

Stereotyping is not only hurtful, it is also wrong. Even if the stereotype is correct in some cases, constantly putting someone down based on your preconceived pereptions will not encourage them to succeed.

 

Stereotyping can lead to bullying form a young age. Jocks and Preps pick on the Nerds and the Geeks; Skaters pick on the Goths, so on and so forth. Stereotyping is encouraging bullying behavior that children carry into adulthood.

 

Stereotyping can also lead people to live lives driven by hate, and can cause the victims of those stereotypes to be driven by fear. For example, many gays and lesbians are afraid to admit their sexuality in fear of being judged. It is a lose-lose situation, both for those who are doing the stereotype and those who are victims.

 

<article#2>

What Is a Stereotype?

By Nadra Kareem Nittle, About.com Guide

 

Feisty. Seductive. Intelligent. Used to describe individuals, the preceding adjectives pose no particular problem. Used to describe groups of people, however, these same adjectives may constitute stereotypes. What is a stereotype? Stereotypes are qualities assigned to groups of people related to their race, nationality and sexual orientation, to name a few. Because they generalize groups of people in manners that lead to discrimination and ignore the diversity within groups, stereotypes should be avoided.

 

Stereotypes vs. Generalizations

While all stereotypes are generalizations, not all generalizations are stereotypes. Stereotypes are oversimplifications of people groups widely circulated in certain societies. In the United States, for example, racial groups are linked to stereotypes such as being good at math, athletics, dancing and so forth. So well-known are these stereotypes in the U.S. that the average American likely wouldn’t hesitate if asked to identify which racial group in this country is known for excelling in basketball. In short, when one stereotypes, one repeats the cultural mythology already present in a particular society.

 

On the other hand, a person can make a generalization about an ethnic group that hasn’t been perpetuated in society. Say, for instance, a woman encounters individuals from a particular ethnic group and finds them to be excellent parents. Based on her encounters with these folks, she may oversimplify and conclude that anyone from this ethnic group must be an excellent parent. In this instance, she would be guilty of generalizing, but an observer might think twice about calling her conclusion a stereotype since no group in the U.S. has the distinction of being known as excellent parents.

 

Stereotypes Can Be Complicated

While stereotypes may refer to a specific sex, race, religion or country, often they link various aspects of identity together. A stereotype about black, gay men, for example, would involve race, sex and sexual orientation. Although such a stereotype targets a specific segment of African Americans rather than blacks generally, it’s still problematic to insinuate that black, gay men are all a certain way. Too many other factors make up any one black, gay man’s identity to ascribe a set list of characteristics to him.

 

Stereotypes are also complicated in that when they factor in race and sex, members of the same group may be pegged very differently. Certain stereotypes apply to Asian Americans generally, for example. But when the Asian American population is broken down by sex, one finds that stereotypes of Asian American men and Asian American women differ drastically from each other. Stereotypes involving race and gender may peg the women of a racial group as attractive and desirable and the men as the exact opposite or vice versa.

 

Even stereotypes applied to a racial group become inconsistent when members of that group are broken down by national origin. A case in point is that stereotypes about black Americans differ from those about blacks from the Caribbean or blacks from African nations. Such discrepancies indicate that stereotypes make little sense and aren’t useful tools by which to judge others based on just a few aspects of their identity.

 

Can Stereotypes Ever Be Good?

Both negative and positive stereotypes exist, but even the latter do harm. That’s because all stereotypes are limiting and leave little to no room for individuality. Perhaps a child belongs to a racial group known for being highly intelligent. This particular child, however, suffers from a learning disability and struggles to keep up with his classmates in school. Because his teacher buys into the stereotype that this child is supposed to excel in class because “his people” are highly intelligent, she might assume that his poor marks are because he’s lazy and never do the investigative work needed to discover his learning disability, saving him from years of struggle in school.

 

Is There Truth in Stereotypes?

It’s said that stereotypes are based in truth, but is this a valid statement? People who make this argument often want to justify their use of stereotypes. The problem with stereotypes is that they suggest that groups of people are inherently prone to certain behaviors. Arabs are naturally one way. Hispanics are naturally another. The fact is, science doesn’t back up these kinds of assertions. If groups of people have historically excelled at certain activities, social factors no doubt contributed to this phenomenon. Perhaps a society barred a group of people from practicing certain professions but welcomed them in others. Over the years, the group became associated with the professions in which they were allowed to practice. This came about not because of any inherent talent in these fields but because they were the professions that allowed them to pay for food, housing and other necessities. In short, their survival depended on them excelling at the professions in question. Those who spread stereotypes, however, ignore social factors and make links between groups of people and certain skills, activities or behaviors where none inherently exist.

 

Wrapping Up

The next time you’re tempted to stereotype a group of people, think about the groups to which you belong. List the stereotypes linked to those groups. Does each of those stereotypes apply to you? More than likely you’d disagree that all of the qualities commonly attributed to those of your gender, racial group and sexual orientation describe you. That’s why it’s important to judge specific individuals rather than the groups of which they’re part.


(懇親会の様子です)

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