I have already found the stereotype in the story about how each tribe got along with the same tribe. I need help on finding another stereotype in the story. I am having difficult finding it. The question is:
a) Identify another passage from "Happy Event" that reveals a stereotyped social attitude white people held about black people in South Africa at the time.
b) Explain what stereotyped social attitude is revealed in the passage.
c) Identify and explain the irony of the belief presented.
Please help and thank you
I am also stuck on this question. Looks like to me there was only one stereotype very difficult
I haven't read the story and haven't found it online.
Didn't white people stereotype blacks as stupid or less than human?
Yes. Both illustrate stereotypes.
okay thank you is this stereotype different than the other one where one tribe does not get along with the other tribe?
Yes. She believes that all people of the same tribe/nationality are alike. She believes all blacks are inferior.
By any chance would you know the irony behind this belief/ stereotype?
I have found two passages in the story but not sure if they are stereotypes,
" she felt the woman's slow eyes watching her out of that room, which curiously, despite its poverty, its soapbox cupboards fretted with cutout newspaper edgings, the broken china ducks, and the sword-fern draped in strained crepe paper ( the ornaments and the fern were discards from the house), had something of the richly charged air of grand treasure-filled rooms of old houses heavy with association, rooms much used, thick with the overlaid echoes of human concourse. She thought, for some reason, of the kind of room which one expects to find a Miss Havisham. And, how ridiculous! These two whitewashed servants' rooms neatly placed out of the way between the dustbin and the garage! What had they to do with Dicken or flights of fancy- or anything else, in fact, except clean, weatherproof, and fairly decent places for the servants to sleep? And belonged to nothing and nobody, merely were thrown in along with other conditions of work."
"But two Africans met the fact of the policeman far more calmly than she herself had done. For Africans there is no stigma attached to any involvement with the forces of law; the innumerable restrictions by which their lives hedged from one day they are born make transgressions commonplace and punishment inevitable. To them a few days in prison is no more shaming than an attack of the measles. After all, there are few people who could go through a lifetime without at least once forgetting to carry the piece of paper which is their "pass" to free movement about the town, or without getting drunk, or without sitting in a bench which looks like every other bench but happens to be provided exclusively for the use of people with a pale skin. All these things keep Africans casually going in and out of prison, hardly the worse- since it is accepted that this the way things are- for the cold, buggy night in the cells or a kick from a warder.
Does this help?