I see it a lot especially here on campus related to the reading “Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria.” On campus you see a lot of ethnicities together in lots of groups. In classes you see a lot that many kids sit with people from their same ethnic background. You see a lot of African American students sitting together and whites and Middle Eastern ethnic backgrounds all in groups and hanging out together. I think it happens just because that’s who we may feel most comfortable around. I mean you don’t always see just these groups together all the time, you see a lot of other ethnicities hanging out together too. Again, I think we just like hanging out with people were comfortable with and we don’t like to create a tension or just feel awkward between another ethnicity if were around someone who doesn’t make us feel normal.
The third reading called “Censoring Myself” just seemed like a waste of my time to have to read that women’s work. She goes off and starts criticizing our president for wanting to imprison people that were thought to be terrorist. Her remarks show exactly why she’s writing a worthless and stupid writing and why she’s not the president. I know it’s just her opinion, but why would we risk more attacks from terrorists when we know the history of how people from that part of the world are and how they are sometimes known to be terrorists. I don’t see how she can criticize someone who know a little bit about what he’s doing when she went to school for writing. I just totally disagree with everything this woman has to say but I guess that’s just how I feel about things and look at the topics she talks about.

This reading seemed pretty interesting in how it talked about stereotypes. I think it’s pretty popular today of how strong stereotypes are towards certain races. Like most people today would look at a six foot six tall African American male and most likely think that they are probably a basketball player because of their height and the history of his race. It’s just something people do because that’s what it seems like that our culture seems to make a stereotype of every single race there is. Most people will say that they don’t stereotype against someone because of their race but their full of it. Everyone judges someone by their race or heritage. Like on most TV shows it’s pretty evident that stereotypes exist. Like on an episode of Family Guy Peter meets an American Indian and automatically asks where his casino is at. It seems crude but that’s what the real world is like, most people traveling out near Las Vegas might meet an American Indian dressed well and insist the same exact thing.
A strong stereotype since the September 11th attacks has been a strong stereotype against Middle East people. Everyone got a little bit more sensitive after the terrorist attacks and it was very evident that no one really knew how to feel about them. People didn’t fly because of certain people flying on the same plane and seemed to not trust anyone of the Middle East decent. Eventually most people got over their fears and stereotypes but not everyone.
But I think the real person or thing to blame in this is the media in the United States and other people who seem to teach these stereotypes. People don’t just bring on these stereotypes on their own they are taught and learned from another source. They come from people who like to brainwash this into someone’s mind. We need to stop blaming ourselves and maybe stop looking at others.