GABRIELLE PEREZ DONATO

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Stereotyping: Predetermined or Accepted?

12 Mar 2024, 15:11 Publicly Viewable
  • Stereotyping as a Society:

Misconceptions, misalignments and seized-endeavours are simple yet misunderstood words to describe a concept so complexly negative, that it has torn what makes us a civilisation, apart. Stereotyping, is it our Achilles heel? It depends on your chosen audience. The power hungry gain a sense of personal satisfaction from the degradation of difference and the submissive kneel as a lack of voice, that leads us as moths attracted to the violence of light. Light being routine; passed on and re-taught as familiarity to those who crave Eurocentrism.

  • Othering vs. It’s subjects:

What makes us different? The colour of our skin, the representation of the ground we step on or the extent to which we desire control? Opinions are consistent when environments are maintained and mundane. In modern day society, when the colonised are born on the grounds of the Eurocentric, they do not seem to be at a political loss compared to those who are inherently blessed with the privilege of being the standardised default - of a region. Or are we programmed to comply to the system that supports the dehumanisation of the individuals that thrive and survive depending on the pack of cards they were dealt at birth.

  • Is othering a predetermined characteristic?

Anti-Semitism, Exoticism and Western supremacy is not a genetic requirement but a developed trait, as old as human kind. To aid in the establishment of an invisible wall of power, that separates and suppresses unity, that we desire as beings of the Socialist. Social Anthropology depends on how the Anthropologist perceives themself in the fundamental context of those who are being observed, the explanation of others (othering) is a sense of perception of self in relation to how you were subconsciously influenced to perceive ethnicity, position, class and status. Were you made to celebrate it or shame it, thank your Ancestry.