stereotypes

I hate stereotypes. I hate being stereotyped. But it's something that has happened so often that I'm used to it. Just today the stereotype that teenagers don't read was brought to my attention. Sure, a lot of teenagers don't belong to a book club or anything, or even check a book ou from the library, but I do! I'm usually always reading a book. But since there are a few teenagers that aren't as infatuated with reading as I, then the assumption that ALL teenagers don't read. Who is a person to say something like that? It's like noticing that an old man and his friends don't like pancakes...so all old men don't like pancakes. That's a bit foolish, but truly, all stereotypes are foolish. Of course, sometimes I fit perfectly into a stereotype, but even when I do, a ton of other people don't! Yet they are just classified away. Not cool.

There's been a few instances when stereotypes have ever gotten under my skin. The one I'm going to tell you about is one that happened just last year. I made a swell powerpoint for my history class, presented it, and awaited my score. Alas, the teacher handed me the paper that showed me how many points I recieved and why. I looked over the paper, and everything looked good until my eyes came across the words "plagierism" and I saw I was docked points. To believe that I would plagiarize! That's ridiculous. I was so angry and upset that I would be accused of something I have never done! I was close to saying something to her but I was just too angry and did not need to get in trouble for saying something I didn't mean to. So I kept my mouth shut, brought down the use of big words and complex sentences, and loathed the fact that I had been stereotyped as unintelligent enough to read something and put it in to my own words.

There's only one thing I want to say about this whole judge one, judge all thing...don't do it! Everybody's different, more than you'll even know.