Perpetuated Sterotypes

We perpetuate a lot of different sterotypes like if a person is on a football team, then he must be a jock, if a girl is a cheerleader then she is a prep, or if a person is good at chemisry or math the he or she must be a geek. these stetotypes have been around for a long time. i remember my mom and dad talking about it but not so much my grandparents. my mother was shy in school and never really got out and did things and she would often wear hoodies or longer shirts and people that dressed like her in school and acted the way that she did were often called "hoods". i think that these sterotypes that we give to people are just a way for society to categorize where people "fit" as a whole. if there are different groups then we are able to strive for a certain social standing or to steer away from a group that we dont want to be a part of. i think that initailly the sterotypes started though as a way for people to feel superior to others. the eariliest example that i could think of was in a story about preps and people called greasers. the preps made the greasers feel insuperior because they were greasers and because of that they couldnt do the things that the preps did and recieved differnt treatment no matter where they went and when the law got involved, the preps would be the ones that got away with everything. i think that we have come to accept the fact that sterotypes exist because no matter where we go, school or work, they are always going to be there. as a person grows up they see the sterotypes already, they play around with the kids that are most like themselves. from there they see who they like and who they dont like and get sterotypes planted in their heads. then they grow up with the same ideas in their heads because no one ever tells them that its wrong to have sterotypes. so now its just normal to see the different groups and to be okay with the groups in which we fit. from middle school all the way up till now,because of the way i dress and act i have been called a prep and i am ok with that because the name prep doesnt botherone bit and i think that if a person is comfortable in their group, they dont really read to much into it.