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Rectangle people can´t whistle!

A stereotype is “...a fixed, over generalized belief about a particular group or class of people.” (Cardwell, 1996). 

By stereotyping, we infer that a person has a whole range of characteristics and abilities that we assume all members of that group have. However, very often we do not know the whole story of a person. Stereotypes usually lead us to social categorization, which is one of the reasons for prejudice attitudes (i.e. “them” and “us” mentality) which leads to in-groups and out-groups.

Our work represents absurdness of using stereotypes and categorizations of people. Despite of our differences in the end we are all just humans, who share many similarities. In our work we are using people´s own 2 minutes drawings of themselves and we took the right to randomly categorize our participants into a “rectangle” and a “sphere”. In this way, we wish to arise a question:  why do we label and put stereotypes on others?  

Nordic Summer Snow:  Teemu, Mattias, Annukka & Jane