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Monday, March 25, 2019

The Rotten Apple Essay -- Self Identity Stereotypes Stereotyping Essay

The Rotten AppleMy mom has al miens told me, If youre eer going to get anywhere in life, you have to make substantially first impressions. Ill spare you the details about the hell holes Id live in and the dead-end jobs described by my mom if I did otherwise. Not a sens of people would think this is a big deal. I mean, making a true first impression is one of the first things parents should be telling their kids to do right? I, however, get the lecture a lot when I was a kid. Heck, my mom called me last night to give me my fix. I seem to be unable to make any sort of good impression with lots of people. This is especially true with t distributivelyers. You had no idea the pang I went through trying to look for a teacher who desire me to write my recommendation. Im not complaining though. I make no drift in trying to leave a good first impression, nor do I ever care for the first impression someone leaves subsequently meeting me. What is a first impression anyway? It is probabl y the sagaciousness a person makes on another based on the way he or she talks and acts in the first meeting. But in a lot of cases, first impressions are made based on the stereotypes, especially racial ones, that person fit in. Wow, you must be genuinely smart.. For most people, this is usually meant as a compliment. And I would take that color as a compliment, if I had, for example, shown whoever said it the proof to a manifold math problem. But when given the comment the first time I meet someone, it means something completely different to me. It means they forgot to say because youre Chinese. Oh, stop complaining Youre in a good stereotype is the frequent response I get when I talk about this with my friends or people in general. Thats about when we would... ...identifies with a stereotype, he is losing a part of his self to the masses. He then tends to act or act accordingly, based on what the stereotype demands of him. He asks himself, What am I suppose to do? as oppo sed to What do I want to do?. That want, I think, is the one answer of how to destroy the concept of stereotype. Still, I find it very ironic that, in a country found on the preservation of individuality and equality, there can be such problems associated with stereotyping and double standards. mayhap, as a country, we are losing sight of the importance and mystique of the individual. Perhaps we are becoming too lazy and impersonal to understand each other for the human that we are, and not just some vague generalization. I am not a nerd, Americanized Chinese immigrant, Weezer-maniac, rebelling teen, overachiever, or crazed sports fan. I am Wang.

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