How have you responded to social pressures to conform by adopting an appearance that relates to the categories that you feel you have placed in or have chosen?
To be honest I don't really care what others think about me when they first see me. I choose to be more educated so when someone comes up to me and begins to socialize I can hold a steady conversation about anything. So the social pressures others think of when they first see me as an uneducated native goon I can surprise them with who I really am.
List the physical characteristics that we have come to admire in both the male and female face and write 100 words in response to the following questions:
1. Do you believe that media images or public opinion are responsible for the characteristics of beauty becoming universal stereotypes.
I believe the images the media puts out into the public are responsible for the characteristics of beauty becoming universal stereotypes. Not only the media is responsible for what the world sees as beautiful, the people's minds are routinely being fed images the the media labels as true beauty and overtime they actually begin to believe what the media puts out is what real beauty is and then shun and mistreat others who don't fit into societies standards. Therefore, both the media and public opinion are both responsible for universal beauty stereotypes.
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| Photo By: Chris Fifita |
2. Do you believe people admiring media images of glamorous models can do any harm?
I do not believe that people admiring images of glamorous models the media puts out can do harm to a certain extent. When people start seeing these "glamorous" models and begin to change themselves into something the public sees as "glamorous" it then becomes a problem. Often people become depressed because they start to believe they are ugly just because they don't look how the models look in magazines.
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Make a personal list of the categories you belong to or have conflict with and visual symbols that are associated with each. Aspirations and expectations should also be listed.
- Age/Generation: I'm a young adult ready to venture off into "the real world" after I graduate in a couple months.
- Gender: I'm a male
- Race: I'm a Navajo
- Religion: I don't follow any certain religion, I believe in a God though.
- Class or Caste: I'm a Native American, therefore I'm usually overlooked and underestimated.
- Personality: I believe I'm more of an introvert that extrovert but once you get to know me I'm more of an extrovert.
- Intelligence: I know I am smart in every way but math.
- Political Persuasion: I consider myself more of a Democrat because I agree with more of what they enforce rather than the Republican party.
