Stereotypes In Mean Girls

Superior Essays
Christine Abanto
ENG4U
Mrs Philips
March 8, 2018
Wanted: Meaningful Diverse Characters
Society is the girl who works at Starbucks who’s too lazy to spell the ethnic names correctly, but dated a Black guy in freshman year for 3 months because she wanted a “Get out of racism card”. Society is that girl in your class who won’t shut up about the political science course she took over the summer, for free. She has an exclusive clique that goes to the newest fusion restaurants for Instagram purposes and declares herself a connoisseur of international cuisines. She’s vexatious, but you absolutely envy her. Society is Regina George and the hierarchy of Mean Girls has become a reality.
Minorities become the freaks and geeks who can only dream of Society
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We can’t help but feel these stereotypes impede our idiosyncrasies and our potential. Stereotypes portrayed in widespread art, dehumanizes minorities by taking away the aspect of singularity humans possess. Minorities are no longer people who have unique dreams and identities, instead they become carbon copies that travel on conveyor belts through the assembly line of expectations allocated to …show more content…
Incorrectly representing minority groups results in the people incorrectly representing themselves as well. The battle to find one’s cultural identity could span lifetimes.
I immigrated to Canada from the Philippines when I was only 2 years old in 2002. As I grew up in predominantly White neighbourhoods in Canada, the media I consumed told me one thing, but my Filipino and Chinese traditions would tell me another. Since I belong to Generation Z, media and technology have always played a big role in my life. I had phases where I just wanted to look like the White girls on TV and phases where I was your classic Asian girl who was demure, smart and who just wanted to eat Pocky Sticks while she studied.
Whenever one phase concluded questions would erupt in my mind, “Then who am I? Am I Society’s perfect little cookie cutter Asian girl or completely defiant and washed white by the colonial bloodshed of my ancestors?” The problem was Society made me choose between two horrible options. It didn’t matter what I would choose because Society would be happy with either option. Society wanted me to be White or they’re idea of Asian. So I made the decision of

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