Wednesday, March 15, 2006

" Biased language "

Language reflects and shapes society, it also powerfully influences attitudes, behavior and perceptions.
There is an important type of language, it is called, Biased language. This type of language refers to many different things at the same time. It calls individuals and groups by names or labels that they did not choose for themselves, it is based on stereotypes that imply that all lesbians/chinese/ women/people with disabilities/men/teenagers are alike, it treats groups in nonparallel ways in the same context.

One of the most polemic types of language is the sexist one, because promotes and maintains that male is the norm, the significant gender. while many people agree with this others think this is discriminatory . The word "he" refers to male, not to female and male at the same time. Maybe one of the reasons of this type of language is because women did nothing, contributed nothing and were nothing in the past, but this is men fault because they thought we weren´t able to do as many things as they use to do , but now we can prove that we can do many things and that we can reach high positions in good companies. I can say that this is women fault too because they didn´t do anything to show what they could do at that time.
As a general rule, it is good to remember that we should ordinarily view people as individuals and not mention our racial, ethnic, or other status, unless it is important to our purpose in communicating.

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