ah yes stereotyping.

Ok, well I know I talked about this in the the last post but the more I think about it, the more I see it everywhere. Its insane. One of my favorite show's is Entourage on HBO. Its hilarious and doesn't ever make fun other races which I like, but the other day I was watching an old episode and I noticed the the maid working in Ari's house was hispanic, which I didnt think twice till I took as second to think about what was going on. The maid only appeared for a short time. I was fustrated at first but then I began to think about the reality of the it. Is the media really putting things in our heads and making as think certain things should be the way they are, or are they really that way and we just don't want to accept it and blame someone else. The maid isnt just a stereotype, its a reality. When my mother came to America on a visa to go to school and work she cleaned houses for the wealthy. Not only that but I have friends whos mothers have done the same. When we see a crip or a blood on T.V. they are always black. Whether on t.v. or not thats what crips and bloods are, in reality. When T.V. shows a redneck from Lousinana living in the country with big trucks, cowboy hats and confederate flags, they're actually showing they way things really are, and I lived in Georgia for a while and I saw a ton of that. This could all be things that we can brush off and laugh at and its funny, but then we have the negative stereotypes that we won't laugh about. I'm not going to lie, when I get on a plane I look around to see if there are any middeleastern men that would and could potentially, in my eyes, be terrorist. Thats such a horrible stereotype, but we all do it and its grown to be a part of everyday life. A funny story, I was at work one day(construction), and as I was putting up drywall and a white, american electrician walked up to me and started speaking spanish to me. It wasnt clear and I could tell he was trying to make fun of the language. I just sat there stared at him and when he was done I responded and in english, I said "Do you electricians have anything better to do then walk around". He stood there kind of in shock that I knew english. I wasnt offended at all because I knew it wasnt suppose to really be a offensive situation. So with that said, maybe some of what we see in the media is reality. I was talked to in spanish from a man who dint think a knew any enlglish because thats that way things are portrayed.