The N Word

Well I mean it is in modern society right now I feel like. This seems to still be around because some people are still racist. My bestfriend Zach is like half black and he uses the word all the time around other black people. It kinda bothers me but usually I don't say it because I'm white and I don't feel like I should be the one saying it because of past events in history when white people used that word against their slaves. It doesn't usually bother me to hear it because like I said my bestfriend uses it but it is more common for him to say it around other black people and then when he is with me he doesn't use it. I'm not gunna lie and say I have never said it because I have before and sometimes it has been derogatory. My dad's side of my family are very racist and they are still back in the old days where they use the word in a very negative way. My family doing this May have some effect on me and when I say it or if I say it but for the majority of the time I never use it. Most of the time I don't really hang out with people that use that word either so it doesn't really effect my life.

Stereotypes

Stereotypes are all over the place and most of time they aren't a good thing. I always feel like stereotypes are more common in high school with kids between the ages of 14-18. I am often stereotyped as the theatre geek with all of my theatre family or friends. Well I mean that's fine to say I'm a theatre geek. Honestly I feel like there are cliques and different groups in school. Like for example the preppy cheerleaders and the jocks and then the goths the theatre kids etc. Constant stereotypes are what makes high school what it is I think and they shape the way kids look at each other. However, when, for example, a theatre kid starts talking to a jock all hell breaks out. Everyone starts to think that just because you talk to someone who isn't into the same things as you that it is automatically a bad thing. In my opinion it shouldn't matter if people from different groups in high school wanted to talk to each other. I am not going to say I don't stereotype because I do it constantly all of the time. I can see someone with a cheerleading uniform or a guy with a football jersey and automatically assume the guy is part of the sports playing jock group type of people and the cheerleader is part of the preppy cheerleaders. I'm not one hundred percent sure why stereotypes exists beside the fact that they are around because people with the same interest usually are the best sorts of of friends and hang out better with each other.