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Our World of Stereotypes | Caleb Garner & Jonah Schofield | TEDxDePereMiddleSchool


stereotyping is a grouping of a certain
kind of people based on the way they
look dress and act who do you identify
yourself as how do you see imagine that
stereotypical situation the 13 year olds
and plunge time your middle school and
you just got your trade you begin to
look around now you’re wondering where
do I sit where do I belong
help your left way up the Nerds everyone
assistant has an IQ of 120 year of
excelling in curricular classes like
math or ela most of them wear glasses
and they’re kind of to be more socially
awkward angles I’m surprised these kids
are even taking a break to eat lunch
that being Gary inside of a book well to
your left we have that athletes everyone
who says there is at the top of their
sports team they excel at physical
activity most of the kids that are never
home they’re always traveling to take
their sports to the next level these
kids almost never miss a shot in
basketball and surprise these kids even
have time to do any schoolwork I’m
straight ahead give the outsiders the
kids you don’t seem to form anywhere and
nobody seems to want to be open seem to
do no cobwebs and barely care about the
grits they’re very hard to approach and
are
sending a chill down your spine no
matter what they do I avoid my contact
at this table at all costs so where do
we belong well we’re a normal normal is
very interesting it is everything you
have served heard so far and yet it is
nothing that you’ve heard so far where
pieces of all the stereotypes rap in
tone while like a giant California roll
in my group everyone does anything
certain people play sports and search
and people are nerds everyone belongs
here but at the same time we don’t
normally like an illusion you can look
at us like your average age oh but you
can look at us for what we’re good at
one thing you need to remember is that
work even though it seems very unlikely
a stereotype screw talking boat also
follows in the classroom so as an
example here’s my story
I mean magic less I excel at this class
to get I’m just local teacher ourselves
any one of the answers a little word
nobody raises their hands but yet you
decide I know what I have the answer is
I know that I can do it is to the small
part of me I’m hoping that the teacher
will call them I’m hoping that I’m
allowed to stand up and explain my
answers
sadly the teacher Falls and feels it she
calls the Lanier’s it’s just an answer
we carry on what they’re dead even
though this seems like nothing this can
completely change your person stand all
because about teachers referred to
stereotypes I also see these stereotypes
collimating the general the gym teacher
turns into the coach and pigs the
athletes as the captain’s the captain’s
take turns picking everyone else
the captain’s pick athletes and more
athletes and more athletes what everyone
doesn’t know is that I’ve had two years
of best all experience surely that we
put myself
managers going to be picked on the team
sooner it doesn’t I get picked after all
the athletes or pick prefer the Nerds
and outsiders the question that runs
through my head is why did I not give it
sooner do they know I have more
experience than some of the other
athletes so we’ve definitely been
victims of the stereotypes in school yet
at the same time need to think that
we’ve been earth trading stereotypes so
let’s give an example let’s talk about
name one of the members of our group the
first time I saw a knight he looked like
an acetate he was tall and he look like
he wouldn’t be a part of the group I met
it took me months to work up the courage
to talk to him when I finally did it was
nothing like a problem to me he loved to
play video games and didn’t play a
single sport because of stereotypes I
didn’t even start a friendship potential
charity I almost missed it all
it was first hour glanced at me I’m
guilty as jr. typing – I’ve been closed
for an Anna Cameron at a first glance I
thought he was a beast he was athletic
he towered over me and he was huge I
mean he had to be amazing in sports I
was scared to talk to him at first
because he was so tall my stereotyping
got the best of me but then I finally
started talking to him finding out who
dozen sports but he isn’t a beast he’s a
marshmallow isn’t that tough he’s not
like that he also gets a great grades
and now because I talked him he is one
of my best friends
then these stories there’s one message
stake deeper everyone might look like a
stereotype but we stop stereotyping we
start asking about the people you can
open up so many more opportunities to
get to know each other maybe it can be
someone just like you people see us as
their normal kids but we’re more than
that under the labels were a little bit
of everything
[Music]
scholar i $1,000 scholarship a Japan
athlete I played two years of basketball
and I snowboard chef my spare time I
enjoyed my family
public speaker I got a first place
rating at level two forensics
competition athlete I’ve played up your
sports and I buy courts in Monster
Hunter I passed on to safety at the age
of eleven and I enjoyed Kevin
marksman I played yourself on the
weekend to mark smooth again musician I
pick a deal in the school orchestra I
also enjoy playing the ukulele on guitar
No
why don’t you try to scribe yourself in
one word it’s harder than you think
that’s what a stereotype is remember
this the next time you describe somebody
else
[Applause]
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