today was a good day

Cara Levitt
2/6/03

Journal #3
Last week’s class was very interesting, even though being a Psych major, I have hatched the topic of stereotypes to death. It was interesting to see other people’s views and reactions when confronted with stereotypes. I think that every situation can be interpreted differently. It’s hard to see that not everyone thinks the way you think. Sometimes people have trouble understanding why something they think is trivial is offensive to someone else. I noticed this when we were discussing the baseball team names being offensive such as the Cleveland Indians. At first I thought that it was not a big deal because it was just a sports team name. It was not intended to be offensive, threatening or demeaning. It’s just so much time as past, that the names have stayed out of tradition. It does stereotype Native Americans as Indians with brown skin, a big nose, and a headdress. I do not personally look at the symbol and think all Native Americans mus...