... about personality traits and behaviours of group members. According to Allport and Brislin, stereotypes are 'categories about people'. (Allport, 1854; Brislin, 1981) It is including gender, religion, race, and perceptions of specific individuals will be influenced by what people think they know about the group as a whole. (Cleveland, Stockdale, & Murphy, 2000) For example, people X meet a friend which is a BBC (British Born Chinese), but this BBC was actually a thief and has been stealing so many things from X and keeps on lying. People X may then concluded that all BBC are thieves and are bad friends. However, stereotypes are not necessary a bad attitude, it can be positive as well. Taking the same example, if people X meet a BBC friend who is very friendly, warm and kind, there is a higher chance that people X will rate all BBC are nice people and worth ...

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