Can we generalize without Stereotyping

Every day people walk, drive, or ride the bus to work or school or other activities. but as passing other people, we tend to generalize the people that we see into different categories. This is normal for most people even without thinking about it. People judge other people and put them into categories based off of skin color or race or religion or even hair color. This categorizing may just be stereotyping for some, however I believe they are so similar sometimes that the effects of generalizing can be taken as a form of stereotyping. This creates a mass effect on our society because people see people that are not in their generalization as different to them. But this is what stereotyping is. It isn't being aware of the other groups around you, it is knowing, pointing out, and maybe mistreating other groups around you. It is very hard to learn the fine line between them, and i would love to learn more about it. 

Snowplowed!

During this horrific blizzard me and my friends had the fabulous idea to make a huge snow fort out of the huge pile of snow that the snowplow man left for us. After 4 hours of intense labor, we were finally done. It was a 3 tunnel, 6 person snow fort with chairs made from snow and cup holders for our drinks. Exhausted, me and my friends went inside the house to warm up and eat. About an hour later we came back out to go sledding. After this we decided to go chill in our snow fort. So we proceeded to chill. after 20 minutes we hear a car, but think it is just my mom coming home from were she was. It wasn't. that very next second our snow fort got POUNDED by the snowplow man. We all sprinted out of the fort as swiftly as possible. It got me thinking that the snowplow man and the people that hire them have no respect for mother nature and what it brings us. Snow is a beautiful thing, and all people talk about is how annoying it is and what a pain it is and just want it removed. I love snow. It is a gift given to us by mother nature that i am grateful for-especially that it helps us to get snow days;) and we should take advantage of it while we have it.

Spit is gross but saliva is not?

But why? this was an interesting lesson in class, i thought, because we know they are exactly the same, except for the fact that ones in the mouth and ones out of the mouth. But we think that spit is gross because society tells us that it is. I have always been told as a kid to not spit but i never understood why and now i know: because society has classed spit as "gross" and saliva as a natural liquid in your mouth that should stay there. If our society formed a view about spit, like the Greeks, then maybe we would all think differently about it. The Greeks believe that spitting on the bride and groom at a wedding is good luck. This is due to their culture and how they think of the things around them differently then we do. Society has formed our thoughts about many different things that effect our lives and it will be like that forever.