Stereotypes, in short, are often about finding patterns. One cannot help but use them not only as a function in society but also as a way to understand it since it is known that humans today identify well with models. This question will be explored using the following knowledge areas; human sciences and history. To explore the question, in addition to using the knowledge areas mentioned above, ways of knowing will be used together, in particular emotion, perception, language and reason. Taking Gandhi's story as a prime example, it is important on two levels; most important, however, is the way in which it exposes not only the negative cultural stereotype of the “stupid foreigner”, but how it simultaneously undermines and replaces these stereotypes with the celebration of a more positive one – the “heroic English”. Gandhi's story is quite ironic since Gandhi himself embodies his response in that very idea and stereotyped humor that the "English" are famous for, which he then turns against his professor to highlight a role reversal. One way in which this question can be approached is through the area of ​​knowledge, humanities and ways of knowing, emotion and reason. Looking first at emotions, there is a clear link between stereotypes and the fear-to-survive-driven fight-and-flight responses of our early ancestors, whose cultural behavior, to this day, continues to develop along with how society advances. our company. How society uses emotions in everyday life also creates a link with intuition and how this affects our ability to make quick judgments without the use of reason and the outcome of those judgments. For example, if you were to come face to face with something dangerous or life-threatening...... middle of paper ...... enter the mental map we have developed for ourselves. As mentioned above, humans function well if they have patterns to follow. Therefore, this set of patterns that society has created, or those that have been passed down to us through generations before ours, have formed an important and substantial part of our mental mental map and these patterns are what we use today to navigate through our society today and overcome the obstacles we face due to the unequal ideals, data, and various human behaviors we encounter. We develop these mental maps so that the thoughts, people and environment of today's society can be monitored and made sense of. However, in certain circumstances, it is possible that these areas of knowledge and ways of knowing may hinder clarity of thought and maintaining sophisticated interactions with those around us.