The Similarities Between My Label And Stereotypes
People have been judging each other for hundreds of year. One thing that people do when they
judge people is label them by things such as their appearance, how they talk, and even by what
they like to do personally. But nobody knows you better than yourself, no matter how close or
how distant your relationship is with them is. Here are some stereotypes that I have been given
from the perspective of both the people around me and from my own perspective of how I label
and stereotype myself.
Let’s start with how other people stereotype me so that in the end of this essay we can
compare and contrast stereotypes against reality when it comes to labeling and judging others.
When I am in public, I am very different than how I am in my own home. I don’t …show more content…
Some of the examples that I will use may sound offensive to myself but to my eyes I
see people being honest with me, which is good, somewhat. Some things that people would say
about me is that I seem to look like that “poor wanna be kid” when it comes to who I am around
other people. My next example is more of a general stereotype from the people I hang out with
but don’t act like myself around. Those people would say that I am “not good at sports but hang
out with the people that are”. My last example of what people would stereotype me as comes
between my closest friends to my most hated enemies. What those people would call me
generally is “a mix between crazy, weird, calm, humorous, annoying, friendly, and strange. That
is how other people would stereotype me, now let’s talk about how I stereotype myself.
When I stereotype myself, other people’s judgement tend to have an affect on how I see
myself. some things that I label myself as is the person who hangs out with both the nerdy and
the athletic type of people. I’m also the kind of person who likes attention, but unlike how
judge people is label them by things such as their appearance, how they talk, and even by what
they like to do personally. But nobody knows you better than yourself, no matter how close or
how distant your relationship is with them is. Here are some stereotypes that I have been given
from the perspective of both the people around me and from my own perspective of how I label
and stereotype myself.
Let’s start with how other people stereotype me so that in the end of this essay we can
compare and contrast stereotypes against reality when it comes to labeling and judging others.
When I am in public, I am very different than how I am in my own home. I don’t …show more content…
Some of the examples that I will use may sound offensive to myself but to my eyes I
see people being honest with me, which is good, somewhat. Some things that people would say
about me is that I seem to look like that “poor wanna be kid” when it comes to who I am around
other people. My next example is more of a general stereotype from the people I hang out with
but don’t act like myself around. Those people would say that I am “not good at sports but hang
out with the people that are”. My last example of what people would stereotype me as comes
between my closest friends to my most hated enemies. What those people would call me
generally is “a mix between crazy, weird, calm, humorous, annoying, friendly, and strange. That
is how other people would stereotype me, now let’s talk about how I stereotype myself.
When I stereotype myself, other people’s judgement tend to have an affect on how I see
myself. some things that I label myself as is the person who hangs out with both the nerdy and
the athletic type of people. I’m also the kind of person who likes attention, but unlike how