In today’s society there are many people who are labeled which generally results in stereotyping. A stereotype is a thought or image about a group of people based on little or no evidence. (Moore & Parker, 2007, p. 122) I will be discussing the following groups of people: politicians, tattooed persons, feminists, and senior citizens.
A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. Some people would say that politicians are people that you can’t trust because they tell you one thing to get in office and do another once in office, so they can. When I think of this the one thing that comes to my mind is Louisiana’s previous governor, Kathleen Blanco. She was one in my opinion that talked a lot about what it was that she would do for the state until it was time to do it. During Hurricane Katrina I felt as though she could have done more along with other politicians. Katrina forced 750,000 families to flee their homes and killed approximately 55 immediately between Mississippi and Louisiana. (International Daily Newswire, 1990) I felt that it’s here fault that so many people died in New Orleans because she should have taken necessary actions, such as get buses into the city earlier to transport people out. The area where the damn broken was where all the low income families lives, so there was no way they were able to get out the city on their own and still have funds to live in a hotel until the storm was over.
Tattooed persons are people with permanent art on their body. Some people would say that they are freaks or even trash. I think that people get tattoos because they are “in gangs, want to be like a friend or just to fit in.” Tattoos were first introduced into the British community and were a fad and used much like a status symbol, the way that fur coats,...