Falling for Stereotypes and Neoism
The movie that won this year’s Best Picture revolved around racial/cultural stereotyping in Los Angeles, and we went (Gold Class Lazy-Boy Seating Style) to the cinema a couple nights ago to watch it. Very intense. As relevant as it is to American Life, and a testament to the culturally diverse situations we find ourselves in Stateside, it also finds meaning here.
An Example:
About an hour after we got out of the movie and sitting around impatiently waiting for a late-night taxicab, I wandered off by myself to locate a restroom. I forgot where it was, and ended up lost on the fourth floor, the third floor maintenance corridor, aimlessly searching and became uneasy as many leering men began to give me odd looks.
Unfortunately, I’ve had one too many unpleasant encounters while walking around town to dispel the idea that most men here would just be innocently looking at me because I look different from them. So I immediately began to view everyone in my preconceived “Slightly dirty sketchy Indian Man” category, as I’m sure they were making the equally incorrect assumptions about me.
A break-down:
White women: filthy rich and easily swindled out of large sums of money, drinks excessively, promiscuous, void of all morals.
Indian man: hypocritical, sexually repressed, inappropriately forward with foreign women, void of all morals.
A situation ripe for misunderstanding. Yet precaution is absolutely necessary. Alas, the perils of stereotyping...
PS. You can now outsource your entire life-- A writer from Esquire delves into the dark side of sloth-like laziness hires multiple “personal assistants” who call his parents on their anniversary and sends flowers to his wife. What a world.
http://www.smartmoney.com/esquire/index.cfm?Story=20050909-outsource&pgnum=1
And finally looking into a new apartment this weekend. The exciting prospect of living in a real housing establishment in a real neighborhood is almost unbearable! Plus I’m falling for Neoism ("the international movement of games and total freedom"):
"When one creates Neoism, one destroys Neoism. The evolution of Neoism makes Neoism obsolete. Each explanation of Neoism makes Neoism retract." - Monty Cantsin
Two girls wearing silver overalls and Monty Cantsin-look alike masks visited Monty Cantsin. The first girl said: "I bet this is an allegory." The second said: "You have won." The first said: "But only allegorically." The second said: "No, in reality. In allegory, you have lost."
The safety of contradicting oneself. I think I’ll be Monty Cantsin this weekend.
An Example:
About an hour after we got out of the movie and sitting around impatiently waiting for a late-night taxicab, I wandered off by myself to locate a restroom. I forgot where it was, and ended up lost on the fourth floor, the third floor maintenance corridor, aimlessly searching and became uneasy as many leering men began to give me odd looks.
Unfortunately, I’ve had one too many unpleasant encounters while walking around town to dispel the idea that most men here would just be innocently looking at me because I look different from them. So I immediately began to view everyone in my preconceived “Slightly dirty sketchy Indian Man” category, as I’m sure they were making the equally incorrect assumptions about me.
A break-down:
White women: filthy rich and easily swindled out of large sums of money, drinks excessively, promiscuous, void of all morals.
Indian man: hypocritical, sexually repressed, inappropriately forward with foreign women, void of all morals.
A situation ripe for misunderstanding. Yet precaution is absolutely necessary. Alas, the perils of stereotyping...
PS. You can now outsource your entire life-- A writer from Esquire delves into the dark side of sloth-like laziness hires multiple “personal assistants” who call his parents on their anniversary and sends flowers to his wife. What a world.
http://www.smartmoney.com/esquire/index.cfm?Story=20050909-outsource&pgnum=1
And finally looking into a new apartment this weekend. The exciting prospect of living in a real housing establishment in a real neighborhood is almost unbearable! Plus I’m falling for Neoism ("the international movement of games and total freedom"):
"When one creates Neoism, one destroys Neoism. The evolution of Neoism makes Neoism obsolete. Each explanation of Neoism makes Neoism retract." - Monty Cantsin
Two girls wearing silver overalls and Monty Cantsin-look alike masks visited Monty Cantsin. The first girl said: "I bet this is an allegory." The second said: "You have won." The first said: "But only allegorically." The second said: "No, in reality. In allegory, you have lost."
The safety of contradicting oneself. I think I’ll be Monty Cantsin this weekend.
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