Sterling Archer Essay On Identity

Privileged white American men tend to be a lot less culturally and gender sensitive and a large part of that is due to who there are, their identity. With the TV series Archer I will explain how characteristics of identity and aspects of identity influence the attributions and attitudes. The TV show Archer is about the trials of an agency named ISIS (International Secret Intelligence Service). Led by the world’s deadliest spy Archer who is also the son of the Chief Executive Officer, Malory Archer. The character I will be focusing on is Sterling Archer, an egotistic, insensitive, self-centered privileged white, who always gets bailed out by his mother in one way or another. So they seem to have a nearly uncharted under described relationship with each other. Archer is a spy which also makes him multifaceted. Multifaceted is when an individual is composed of multiple dimensions (Oetzel). When Archer is around his valet Woodhouse he is a very rude and cruel person often coming up with very dehumanizing punishments every time Woodhouse does anything wrong. For example when Woodhouse let a dog into Archer apartment even though a drunk Archer insisted, Woodhouse was still forced to eat a bowl of spider webs. But when Archer …show more content…
They also can be very egotistic when they are given so much power and prestige over others like a secret agent possess. Archer often view the world through his personal experiences. Viewing his own behavior as normal and appropriate and the standard by which to judge others behaviors is known as egocentric bias (Oetzel). A great sample of this is when Archer was training Cyril to be a field agent by working with a hooker. Once Cyril called the girl a hooker archer got offended and told Cyril you should always call them “Call Girls” unless they’re dead. Even though she considered herself to be a hooker he still felt his way of describing it was the correct