Stereotypes and Stereotyping - I Was a Teenage Hippie Essay -- Example

Stereotyping - I Was a young Hippie   Imagine a 17-year- previous(a) kid. He is five feet eleven inches tall, weighs one hundred eight-spoty lbs., with very long hair and a beard. His hair parts in the middle and stops at his waist, meaning his hair is more or less threesome and a half feet long. He dresses non for the fashion of the day, but with elder standards blue jeans and a flannel shirt in the winter or blue jeans and a short sleeve shirt in the summer. Generally, his shirts in summer are T-shirts, typically with some provocative text or an advertisement for a rock group. That kid was me in 1974.   I was the sterile hippie, and my social circle during that year and the four long time preceding it (two of those years in middle school and two years in game school) included other hippies. The hippie subculture has often been subject to a sort realise over the years. The image identified with the hippie is one of an respective(prenominal) that is gen erally unclean and unkempt, usually lives in squalor, has a drug ha berth, and is not very smart. Of course, male members of the hippie subculture all had long hair. Though the conservatives sort outd me and my friends by what they saw, they did not realize a single thing about us.   The group I was involved with socially was made up of eight other guys besides myself and two girls, but the eleven of us were know by our peers as The Dirty dozen. We were looked upon by the conservatives in our town as being just a bunch of damn hippies. Obviously, The Dirty Dozen was stereotyped because of our appearance. Indeed, it would have been easy for any of us to change our image to something more socially acceptable. For example, cutting my air, shaving off my beard, and changing my... ...day. I find myself not being so quick to judge by looks alone. I find myself consciously thinking that I should not stereotype what I see before me. I do not know the person I only know t he image. I certainly do not want to consider myself so narrow minded that I engage in the very behavior displayed by the conservatives in the mid-sixties and 1970s.   Because of the tendency of people to stereotype others, I hold the belief that I would be subject to stereotyping today. While I maintain views that might be politically incorrect and continue to hold dear a bit of the non-conforming attitude embraced by the hippie subculture, would people guess that to look at me today? Considering my conservative image today, would people guess that on the wrong I might still be a hippie? Or would they look at me and see me as a boring old fart conservative yuppie?