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People develop conceptions about certain groups of people because of what we see on television and use these generalizations in everyday life, such as Gender and where the media portrays ones masculinity and femininity, Race and where people simplify the intellectual images of specific ethnic and Religion and where media influences the public's idea and views on certain religions. Many stereotypes have existed for hundreds of years, since the invention of the printing press, when people could spread their ideas about a certain group of people such as how Native Americans looked and behaved, or that Africans were savages and needed to be tamed and educated. Since then, many other forms of media have arisen, such as newspapers, television, radio, magazine and the Internet, allowing easier access of information to the public. "A standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of a group and that represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgment," Merriam Webster who defines a stereotype. Gender Stereotype refers to the extent to which an individual identifies with the cul