If life is a game, shouldn’t we all be on the same team? Could the jocks, the popular girl, the nerd, or even the criminals be on the same team to excel in life? Would you be willing to share your successes in life with the people who weren’t considered your friends in the eyes of school status? The people who at times made you feel like you weren’t good enough because you wore the same shirt twice in a week, smart enough because you got an achieved on your exam or tough enough because you cried when someone bullied you. Would you accept this?
We as teenagers are tossed into the never-ending spiral of stereotypes from which our futures are supposedly decided. Futures that will mean either ultimate success or ultimate failure.
Whether it was watching mean girls or the Breakfast club. Whether you read it somewhere in a book, you have probably heard the term stereotype. You know the geek, jock, cool girl the list goes on. We see stereotypes everywhere. Whether or not we choose to believe it, we are all actually part of our own stereotypical clique. A clique that separates us as teenagers in work, school and even at home. John Hughes the god of teenage films such as the Breakfast Club, constantly portrayed the original stereotypes from which more have been created. The popular rich girl, jock, geek, outcast and criminal. Nevertheless, why? Why does there have to be stereotypes? Why can’t we all just come together as one? …show more content…
Let’s narrow it down.
The word stereotype means a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or things, and a relief printing plate cast in a mould made from composed type or an original plate. However, that’s not necessarily the one I would like to highlight. Let’s look at the first definition again, a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image, or idea of a particular type of person or things. An image or idea of a particular person. Now doesn’t that sound
We as teenagers are tossed into the never-ending spiral of stereotypes from which our futures are supposedly decided. Futures that will mean either ultimate success or ultimate failure.
Whether it was watching mean girls or the Breakfast club. Whether you read it somewhere in a book, you have probably heard the term stereotype. You know the geek, jock, cool girl the list goes on. We see stereotypes everywhere. Whether or not we choose to believe it, we are all actually part of our own stereotypical clique. A clique that separates us as teenagers in work, school and even at home. John Hughes the god of teenage films such as the Breakfast Club, constantly portrayed the original stereotypes from which more have been created. The popular rich girl, jock, geek, outcast and criminal. Nevertheless, why? Why does there have to be stereotypes? Why can’t we all just come together as one? …show more content…
Let’s narrow it down.
The word stereotype means a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or things, and a relief printing plate cast in a mould made from composed type or an original plate. However, that’s not necessarily the one I would like to highlight. Let’s look at the first definition again, a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image, or idea of a particular type of person or things. An image or idea of a particular person. Now doesn’t that sound