Stereotyping is never a good thing. When it occurs in school, it leads to people's feelings getting hurt or the horrible concept of racism. That's why when it occurs in reference to history, it causes problems because it means that change is not being accepted. Change is one of the three c's in world history and if groups of people with different cultures are seen as never changing or adapting over time, then they are being stereotyped over a certain characteristic that once defined them but might not still be the truth. Change is important in history because it shows how the world and all of the countries and cultures that make it up have been able to improve with their experiences and important events that they live through.
Comparison is the second c and it can be misunderstood like change because it does not just involve looking at the similarities between people or things but it also involves comparing the differences. Looking at the differences can provide a greater account of why people have done the things that they have done or strayed from the normal path that everyone else took to solve a dispute for example. You have to find categories that you think would be beneficial when it came to comparison and then decide the appropriate way to present it.
World History also majorly involves digging into the connections that very different peoples have because it can show similarities in the human race as a whole and it can help to explain their interactions and encounters. It protects from the view that every community is its own isolated entity that shares no characteristics from the rest of the species. They didn't develop alone without any interaction to anyone else.
These three concepts bring together all of the varieties of stories in world history.
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