Stereotyping strangers

In the story “After you, My Dear Alphonse, by Shirley  Jackson” the mother and her tone towards Boyd relates to WWII. This story relates to the racism and attitudes during WWII in many ways.

One way that the story relates to the attitude is how the mother makes comments to Boyd about his race, because he was black and most Americans in the 20^th century  thought most black people weren’t able to provide for their family or they were broke. For an Example Most of the Germans were influenced by Hitler to think that Jews were invading the country and taking jobs away, and that meant that the rich Jews were to be targeted first.  Hitler once said “the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shapes of the Jew”.

Another example that relates to the mother in the story is the bombing of pearl harbor. After the bombing Americans felt very angry towards the Japanese. The Americans pretty much hated all Japanese civilians  and didn’t want peace between the two and only wanted revenge. The Americans Stereotype was that the Japanese are brutal and relentless but that’s was not the case. Hitler set the Americans up and they told the Japanese rite away and the Japanese were angry.

Another example that relates to the mother in the story is how most people outside America think of Americans as rich and lazy. Like a quote that states  “Americans have everything handed to them. No matter what they want, there is a government program that gives it to them”. The other non American societies think this but is not true. we have are freedom because there are people to fight for it. We are rich because we work hard. Although some Americans live off the government that does not mean the rest do.

These are just some of the multiple stereotypes from different countries to other countries all over the world. Most just come from followers and people who haven’t seen all of a certain society and make a judgment based on the part of the society they’ve seen so far .In  the end most people just ignore what other people say because most of the time it is not true what others say about a society they’ve haven’t fully explored yet.