I FEEL LIKE I'M BEING BRAINWASHED BY THE STEREOTYPES

• da-cheese-freakk

  13 Apr 07, 20:43

  it's not even funny anymore.
  you start off thinking one way
  but everyone around you says that something MUST be this way, THIS is the correct behavior, you should NOT associate with this type of people, you are a PROUD, SPOILT, RICH, ARROGANT BRAT.
  and you're just going, "no, no, no. this is not what I believe and this is not how I choose to behave."
  
  but then, after a while, what society thinks starts sinking in.
  and, being a human being, after hearing people diss you, your family, your school and your friends based on hasty generalizations, you naturally get rather ticked off.
  and though you dont WANT to think badly of the people who diss you, YOU start to believe the stereotypes about THEM. 'cause you dont think they're giving you a chance.
  
  then you treat someone ELSE badly, then that person treats ANOTHER person badly, etc.
  
  I'm starting to wonder, is it the school system? If there wasnt so much competition between schools, would this whole school-rivalry/stereotype thing be less intense/non-existant?
  
• LazerLordz

  14 Apr 07, 02:35

  Originally posted by da-cheese-freakk:

  it's not even funny anymore.
  you start off thinking one way
  but everyone around you says that something MUST be this way, THIS is the correct behavior, you should NOT associate with this type of people, you are a PROUD, SPOILT, RICH, ARROGANT BRAT.
  and you're just going, "no, no, no. this is not what I believe and this is not how I choose to behave."
  
  but then, after a while, what society thinks starts sinking in.
  and, being a human being, after hearing people diss you, your family, your school and your friends based on hasty generalizations, you naturally get rather ticked off.
  and though you dont WANT to think badly of the people who diss you, YOU start to believe the stereotypes about THEM. 'cause you dont think they're giving you a chance.
  
  then you treat someone ELSE badly, then that person treats ANOTHER person badly, etc.
  
  I'm starting to wonder, is it the school system? If there wasnt so much competition between schools, would this whole school-rivalry/stereotype thing be less intense/non-existant?
  

  all this rivalry between schools will seem to be a figment of a childhood lost to mere whims when you enter college, serve the military and enter the workforce.
  
  for the rest of this sociological problem, you gotta try not to get sucked into that vicious cycle.
• jondizzle foshizzle

  14 Apr 07, 03:04

  Yeah I feel this is happening too but meh don't let stereotypes get to u. I constantly get dissed for being a Jew and i just learn to laugh at myself sometimes and now i'm the one whos making all the jew jokes. So yeah, learn to laugh at stereotypes.
• AndrewPKYap

  14 Apr 07, 04:14

  Originally posted by jondizzle foshizzle:

  Yeah I feel this is happening too but meh don't let stereotypes get to u. I constantly get dissed for being a Jew and i just learn to laugh at myself sometimes and now i'm the one whos making all the jew jokes. So yeah, learn to laugh at stereotypes.

  cool! U R a Jew?
• jondizzle foshizzle

  14 Apr 07, 04:18

  Originally posted by AndrewPKYap:

  cool! U R a Jew?

  Yes im half jewish; my dad's a jew.
• gigabyte14

  14 Apr 07, 04:22

  Originally posted by da-cheese-freakk:

  it's not even funny anymore.
  you start off thinking one way
  but everyone around you says that something MUST be this way, THIS is the correct behavior, you should NOT associate with this type of people, you are a PROUD, SPOILT, RICH, ARROGANT BRAT.
  and you're just going, "no, no, no. this is not what I believe and this is not how I choose to behave."
  
  but then, after a while, what society thinks starts sinking in.
  and, being a human being, after hearing people diss you, your family, your school and your friends based on hasty generalizations, you naturally get rather ticked off.
  and though you dont WANT to think badly of the people who diss you, YOU start to believe the stereotypes about THEM. 'cause you dont think they're giving you a chance.
  
  then you treat someone ELSE badly, then that person treats ANOTHER person badly, etc.
  
  I'm starting to wonder, is it the school system? If there wasnt so much competition between schools, would this whole school-rivalry/stereotype thing be less intense/non-existant?
  

  there's a lot more in the upbringing from the parents.
• da-cheese-freakk

  14 Apr 07, 18:38

  Originally posted by gigabyte14:

  there's a lot more in the upbringing from the parents.

  is that so?
  I actually think its fellow peers, you know, when it comes to the whole school thing.
  and not people from MY school..
  people from OTHER schools xD
• da-cheese-freakk

  14 Apr 07, 18:54

  Originally posted by jondizzle foshizzle:

  Yeah I feel this is happening too but meh don't let stereotypes get to u. I constantly get dissed for being a Jew and i just learn to laugh at myself sometimes and now i'm the one whos making all the jew jokes. So yeah, learn to laugh at stereotypes.

  yeah, I guess that kinda sucks, and its awesome that you can laugh about it.
  guess I just needta get around that. get around the fact that people dont hesitate to hate you simply for wearing an uniform.
  but its kinda hard to control your feelings, huh. kinda hard to just swallow everything that anyone has ever said. "we're not referring to you, we're referring to rafflesians in GENERAL," they say.
  the fact is, all the rafflesians they have met are fine. they're making unprovable statements based on some random people on the street.
  i know this because they told me.
  these are people that they dont even know.
  people that they dont even bother to understand.
  period.