Stereotypes: The Controversy Of Images

On a daily bases people make excuses for everything. Everything meaning our actions and the things that we say. Common things that we make excuse for deal with sexist, racist, and heterosexist comments. Sexist is classified as saying that one sex is better than the other. An example of this is someone calling a male or female something that they are not. I do not like this because we are all humans and deserve to be respected and not called something that is degrading. We all know that racist is downgrading one race compared to another. An example of this is, saying that all black people are loud and ghetto. We all act the same but some people do certain things different from others. That’s just there way of living. I do not think that just because one person acts one way the whole race does also. Heterosexist is defined as heterosexuality is better than all other expressions. An example of this would be talking about how a guy dresses and calling him gay. I do not agree with this as well because it is good to stand out and be your own person not matter how others see you.

The film does have a very important and very controversial content. The film was violent and showed things as I truly believe the way things were. Yes, it was hard to watch at times, but it was the truth. The film is a really good example on what happens when people live life with hatred in their hearts. A good thing that Derek’s younger brother Danny learned that he wrote on his paper is “hate is baggage, life is too short to be p*ssed off all the time, it’s just not worth it” and I agree with him.

There are always going to people in the world that are going to think that people of a certain race, religion or sexually orientation well never been the same as themselves even though everyone is human and we are all the same. This visual argument shows seven identical looking skeletons and from left to right is labeled: white, black, gay, straight, Catholic, Atheist and human. Every skeleton looks exactly that same and shows that no matter what someone looks like, who they believe in or who they love, everyone is human. The human body has 206 bones that make it up and they aren’t exactly the same between anybody but they are built and arranged that same way. Although there are very specific details and differences between every skeleton but this photo argues that everyone is equal because skeletons are built the same and uses emotion by showing that the skeletons that everyone has look the same even though what is on the outside may look different.

Have you noticed how many people are misunderstanding Muslims? Recently, people have been very confused about Muslims and their beliefs. From the acts from few misguided people, the world has made a new stereotype, Muslims' images are being corrupted by people who claim to be Muslims. In this cartoon there are many techniques that persuade the reader. One can see the author used labeling to represent the two towers.

MISCONCEPTION IS BORN OUT OF MISCOMMUNICATION. WHEN STUDENTS GRADUATE THINKING THAT TOMATOES ARE VEGETABLES AND BEING UNSURE ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “DESSERT” AND “DESERT”, YOU’D COME TO BELIEVE THAT THEY HAVE HAD AN UNSUCCESSFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCE. IN SOME WAY, I’D DESCRIBE MY UNSUCCESSFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCE AT SCHOOL AS SUCCESSFUL.

Many individuals agree that at a given point in life they have committed some form of prejudiced. Even with a difficult aspect of understanding stereotypes. The best thing to do can be to give people a chance when it comes to judging them. One of the following examples occur to myself in my first year of college. However, throughout life I always never showed prejudiced not even a small amount. Although, each day can be different the best option seems to be understanding of others. In a more detailed version the prejudiced seem as I misinterpreted against African American classmates. Soon my understanding about appeared extraordinary, and change my perspective towards black individuals in a broader picture. In my experience the following event occur, mainly because it is human nature to discriminate and label just by the looks of someone.

In our world today we struggle with stereotypes causing many issues in our society. Some problems we encounter are Same Sex Marriage, The Black lives matter movement, feminism, Terrorism, and who is the best president for 2017. We believe that same sex marriage is not right, there is a difference in a person because the color of their skin, women have less value, and should we send US troops to fight against ISIS. These are one of the biggest problems in the world today and I believe we should start taking action now instead of waiting around for some miracle to happen. Some of these issues have been around for centuries.

The fear of loss spawns a fundamental need to feel superior. Unfortunately for both parties at hand, this need to feel superior is often linked with ignorance, thus making it impossible for actual superiority to be established in any way. This creates a need to draw conclusions that, while not necessarily true, distinguish one individual from another in ways that draw on stereotypes and heresy. Those with racist thoughts or ideals never achieve any semblance of comparative excellency without believing and enhancing the idea that an uncontrollable factor in another makes them fundamentally inferior. This insatiable thirst to be bigger, stronger, richer, prettier, or more well-liked than any tangible opponent may be initially inherited from fear

When I think about New York I think of happiness. Loud, busy, fast paced, happiness. Being from New York I considered myself and everyone else in my family to be a New Yorker. According to Oxford English Dictionary being a New York refers to a person who was born or lives in New York. I was not born in New York, but I was raised there for a lot of my childhood. Plus all of my sisters and father were born there, and a lot of my extended family still live there. The state of New York has always seemed like a perfect home to me; although, a lot of outsiders do not see it as perfect.

Stereotypes are by definition a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person. Stereotypes can apply to other things as well but I will focus on the stereotypes seen in society. As we have seen in “To Kill a Mockingbird”, stereotypes have been present throughout history. However, it seems that even though stereotypes usually carry negative effects on people with their presence, they have lingered with us for some strange reason.

Fictional characters are the man-made beings that shape, mold, and decorate the world, influencing their surroundings and blending into a large crowd of their kind; in the same way, paint can blend into a larger picture without individual hues being noticed. Just as fictional characters appear everywhere, so does paint, and in a variety of colors and personalities. In daily life, most American people are exposed to an excessive amount of fictitious people, animals, and surreal beings, all of which hold their own views and standpoints. Characters are created to relate to and to feel what they feel, but some people are concerned that the audience is taking this to a very high level. Whether the personalities of these characters affect those of

People define themselves by what others say about them. Means names get tossed around. People get categorized by their looks. The standards of beauty have become very high. Kids learn to mend themselves from the words but they hurt. Some never recover from those experiences. Other take it with them and it creates bigger problems. Self image issues can arise. People are cruel, especially in school with their peers. The administration and teachers write it off as normal. Kids are mean to each other, but making someone so depressed that they don’t want to go on is excessive. Often times people tease each other about weight. In Brunswick High School some of the teachers make comments about over weight kids. Students make comments about how girls

On an average day, one might turn on the television to a variety of shows. Some may display a husband coming home from work to a meal cooked by his wife, and others may show a blonde girl proving her lack of common sense. Nevertheless, this comes to show how commonly it occurs that stereotypes are presented in our daily lives. Stereotypes are considered to be widely generalized perceptions of particular groups of people. There are stereotypes in regards to race, gender, religion, sexual preference, physical appearance, fashion sense, age, ethnicity, intelligence, and the list goes on endlessly. There is not a group in existence who does not have stereotypes about them, whether they are for or against the group. They are typically used for harmless purposes. Comedians use stereotypes for their jokes to be more relatable. Stereotypes are not always an issue because they can help people make decisions based on prior knowledge. This is defended by author Saul McLeod who believes that “one advantage of a stereotype is that it enables us to respond rapidly to situations because we may have had a similar experience before.” (McLeod). Even so, stereotypes are harmful to the mind in that they are infectious by spreading false ideas of even complete strangers. With that being said, it is clear that society has wrongly embedded the most commonly concluded stereotypes as acceptable or humorous assumptions

Stereotypes are a big problem in society and will continue to be in the future as well. Some people label others with certain stereotypes only because they think they should act, talk, or dress a certain type of way. It is wrong that people think someone should act this or that way based off their gender, nationality, or personality. The people that have those beliefs are too narrow-minded and ignorant to see other people’s points of views and to think of other’s feelings. People should stop labeling others and instead grow and develop into a community that aims for equality and respect for one another.

Barbara Kruger, an American conceptual artist, once said “All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype” (All). Stereotypes are at the basis of every dispute, argument, or violence we as people are quick to judge other people even if we have never got to know the person we’re criticizing. If stereotypes continue we will become a world with separated groups of people that are at war with each other.