Everybody can admit to judging before they get to know somebody at some point in their lives and I can be one of those people sometimes, although I try not to, it is difficult because there are a lot of people that do and it is hard to not jump on the bandwagon immediately. Strangers are definitely the fastest to jump to conclusions about somebody before they even know you. They base who they think you are off how you look mainly since they don’t know what kind of personality you have. In the reading “Gendered viewpoints”, Blair, Almjeld & Murphy demonstrate many ways in how strangers play different roles in how we identify ourselves. For example, there are two pictures from news articles of different people in the water, one is African American and the other photo is of two white people. …show more content…
Just because of the colour of the mans skin in the first photo, the strangers who wrote this article make him seem like the bad guy saying that he was looting from a grocery store just because of his race where as the white people did the exact same thing but they did not steal it, no, they just found it in the grocery store but it is okay because they are white so that means they are obviously good people. It is articles like this that you see that make you ask yourself who am I? If a stranger sees me like this, then that must mean that I am a thief because I am black or that it is okay to steal because I am white. Whereas in the article “The Complexity of Identity” (Tatum) she shows how strangers can affect your views on your identity a little bit