Monday, January 14, 2013

All African Americans Are Good at Basketball


    “What do you call a bunch of white people sitting on the bench? The NBA!” That is just one of the jokes about how good the African American plays basketball. Although it is true that seventy eight percent of all NBA player in 2012 are all people of color, that does not mean that all of African American are good at basketball. It just happens that most of them are born with stronger body and many use it to take advantage in playing sports.

     In my opinion, this kind of stereotype is a good stereotype.  Not only it will boost the social status of African American, but also it will make other people from different races, who are considered to be not as good as African American at basketball, to be a dark horse. People will be surprised how good they can be and that situation will only make the dark horse become more famous. For example, the Jeremy Lin “Linsanity” fever.


Source: http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/2012/06/study-2012-nba-racial-and-gender-report-card/

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