What are the benefits of constantly attempting to prove superiority? Why do some people spend their entire lives resisting change and hating people because they are different from themselves. This is insanity at its finest, but yet it seems so commonplace. While people are bickering over who is superior/inferior that small 10% of the population who benefit from racial stereotypes and propaganda are living it up and laughing at the fools who actually think their "race" is superior. Are people really this dense? Are we really this disillusioned? There are so many atrocities going on in the world, wouldn’t we ALL benefit from peace. While we are on this earth, why not have a lovely life and try to coexist?
Who benefits from hate? Someone apparently does. Who benefits form everyday people bickering over race? Why are stereotypes CONSTANTLY perpetuated in the media? Why? What is the reason for this? Why invest so much time into painting a particular race a certain way?
There are constant, overdone stereotypes of all minorities that literally effect their lives in very real ways. There aren’t any that affect white people in detrimental ways. There is a reason for that.
You have people from all over the world (including Africans) who come to America with preconceived notions about black people simply due to the way we are represented in the media. This is not an accident.
I don’t have anything against white people. I just call it how I see it. White people are allowed to be "individuals" but yet, I walk out into the world and I have so many negative experiences and assumptions about who I am based on the way people like me are portrayed on the television. I have to prove my humanness. I can’t just be an individual, I have to disprove stereotypes every single day. In the workplace, at school, being followed while shopping with my HARD earned money.
Day in and day out, for possibly the rest of my life. It takes a toll psychologically. It’s like I can’t get away from whiteness lol, I just want to live my life in peace..
Racism and Sterotyping exists because it can and we let it exist. If something ike that can exist, it will. We allow it to exist by not looking upon it negatively. After all, the only people who look upon that negatively are the people offended by that racism/sterotyping, so the person sees a negative response from that group and associates negativeness with them. Everyone is different and there is no denying that. We do not instinctly believe we are"all equal", but we would like to believe so so that we may better ouselves as a species so that is the way we teach things, now…The reason sterotypes exist is to "portray the people of a certain race", but it does not portray those people, instead it portrays the race. Every individual is different and that is why sterotypes are inaccurate and unfair to us as invdividuals, but individuals only.
