United States is a country where blue-eyed, blonde, with light skin is the dominant look. At least for me when I picture an American that is what comes to mind even though I understand that this is a country full of immigrants. This has been branded in my mind due to commercial advertising from way back in the day to presently. A typical American family always consisted of a mom, dad, and most likely two children (boy and a girl) and a big house with a fence. When something in a culture becomes this familiar and becomes such normality, change is just an offset to the cycle. What I mean by this is that people like to have things a certain way, a way that they are used to. However, when something changes they may become upset or bothered because they simply do not understand. An example of this would be Asians. They have black hair, slanted eyes, speak a language that is completely foreign to us, eat with chop sticks, and do many other things that are completely different from us. Some individuals would call this culture shock. Culture shock is defined as “the feeling of disorientation experienced by someone who is suddenly subjected to an unfamiliar culture, way of life, or set of attitudes.” To my understanding, our society experienced culture shock so heavily that stereotyping Asians or individuals from different cultures has now become something inevitable. It is just something we do without even thinking about it or meaning to do it. In Asia, China is probably the most well-known country so anyone with slanted eyes is automatically grouped with China. Rarely does an individual attempt to try and snap out of that stereotypical mindset. Not too much time is taken to try and see past those typical thoughts to try and understand what makes a specific individual Japanese, Chinese, or Korean. In order to remove stereotypes from societies, people are going to have to educate themselves about different cultures and simply be more open minded. We are not all the same and everyone has a different style and an accepted behavior, all it takes to discover other extraordinary cultures is a little time and effort.