Upper Intermediate B- Citizenship Today
Unheard Voices
Folgar, Juan F.
Stereotypes
Nowadays people accept almost everybody, but there are still a lot of stereotypes about how everyone´s body must be.
Every day when someone dresses weird, people think that they know what the other people are like, but that is not true. For example, if a guy has long hair and a "bloody star" on his T-shirt, that doesn´t mean that he is a Satanist.
A lot of people are ignored, and because of this, they are not allowed to enter some places, because of their clothes, or tattoos. If you see a dude wearing a Nirvana T-shirt that doesn´t mean that he is on drugs or that he hates globalization. Most people think that they know a person just because they see their physical traits (the clothes that they have, their tattoos, etc.) and that is not the truth. Maybe the guy with the bloody star on his T-shirt is the best kid in his classroom, maybe he is a really good person, but because of the stereotypes, people may never know that.