Tuesday 1 March 2011

Stereotyping.

People these days are obsessed with labelling everybody. Just to give you an idea I shall name some of these stereotype groups, because once you see them all wrote out, your'll realise how extreme, and how far it's gone. Emo, goth, indie, mosher, skater, chav, slag, scene, punk, geek etcetc- and these are just the individual person, people are also stereotyped due to their religion, or where they live/ come from, gender, age etcetc. Another word for stereotyping is prejudice, which means pre judging somebody. A cliché term for this is 'judging a book by it's cover'.  Judging anybody for any reason is wrong, as song in a Paramore song 'next time you point a finger, I'll point you to the mirror'. However, no matter how wrong we know it is, we still find ourselves doing it all the time, but why? Maybe we don't agree with their morals, norms or values. But does this give us right to say what they believe is wrong? Because when it comes to it, are any of us right? What some people believe to be morally right, we might believe it to be morally wrong, but is this a good enough reason to judge them? I say that there is never a good enough reason to judge someone, and again, others would disagree with this.
Like I said earlier, although we know it's wrong we still do it, maybe because the media is constantly judging celebrities that we look up to and inspire to be like, and it also judges celebrities that we maybe aren't to found of. But either way, the media is always judging someone, and by saying this I'm judging the media? See, we all find ourselves doing it. 

Some would say 'emos' are idiots (this is just an example) and hey they're not, some might be, but then again some 'chavs' or some 'skaters' maybe idiots, we can't pin something down on someone just because they're a certain stereotype, or live in a certain place.
So anyway, sorry if I've confused you at all, but I just don't understand why everyone can't be accepting?

Lecture over.
Love Izziiee xox

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