Current mood: relaxed
I guess I have to look like something.
I have had some conversations on the topic of stereotypes with several various people throughout the years. I am not particularly focused on the subject but the dynamics and social implications are fascinating to me. Because I do not, atleast concsiously, try to follow any particular trend, group, political party, fashion motif, media puppet, or otherwise group-classified style of living, it leads me to question where I fall in to the social scheme of things. Most people I know and have ever met somehow fall into a fairly identifiable stereotype of a sort, usually many different ones, and even though I know I must fall into some stereotypes myself, I do not readily see what they are. More than that, I am highly interested in what stereotypes other people see me falling into. How am I socially perceived? Part of the difficulty in thoroughly exploring this topic comes from my, and I am sure many others', misunderstanding of what a stereotype is, as well as how it relates to various important social dynamics and what those dynamics are. On top of that there are many different aspects of stereotypology (I just made that up... it might actually be a word... I mean in the world outside of my own head) such as the visual, habitual, linguistic, economic, social, gender, economic, religious, psychological, and I am sure many more I can not think of at this time, which can all variously be associated with any given stereotype to whatever degree. Just looking at the possibilities can be somewhat mind-numbing. Does this seem too complicated for something so seemingly trivial? What is "Bohemian" anyway?
I have to say... Self-identification is a crucially important quest for a person's ability to gain self-control. Internal self-control creates external self-success.
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