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.