Stereotypes time

In today class we watch some videos about stereotypes and thoughts about other cultures. Stereotypes are ideas or just things that are said from mouth to mouth. But, as life is, some stereotypes are based on reality and even though sometimes they are rude and change the appearance of other countries, they cannot simply disappear.

Maybe some of the most harmful stereotypes are the ones that try to ridicule your culture. An example of this is the opinion many people outside Colombia have about us. We are naturally aggressive, drug dealers and thieves. But, obviously, we know that this is not true at all.

Since we started thinking rationally, our species develop different systems to create relationships with other humans and our environment. Stereotypes, tags or denominations are some of them. We as individuals most of the times are conscious of what kind of person you are. Funny, enthusiastic, temperamental, sensitive, practical, arrogant, there are hundreds of adjectives that we can use to describe ourselves and even this process of self-assessment is a kind of stereotype because we are trying to define ourselves to fit into a group.

Though this may sound strange and even hypocritical because probably we do not like to be etiquette with an adjective we do not considerate that define us. We should consider stereotypes and etiquettes as "trues". I consider after watching all these videos that stereotypes, as I write before, are create based on reality but obviously they can also be wrong. This is why I think stereotypes are more a kind of guide. This guide as a whole has it's based in general things, as our nationality, our age, our gender,  our economic status, our education. This is just the tip of the iceberg a person truly is, sure you can be a little temperamental if you are from a specific part of the world because that is the way you were raised but I do not mean that you are also funny and certain situations do not bother you at all. 

Lastly, to say that stereotypes just give us an idea of how most people see us based on the things mentioned early but this adjectives or ideas are just not enough to describe how wonderful everyone is, how different, how variable, how imaginative and how capable. Every person is a completely new world and such as all planets have a spherical shape it does not mean that we all have the same atmosphere and material inside us. At last, it depends upon us to show to others who we really are and what truly can be defined as "us".