Stereotyping In Young Adults

Stereotyping Young Adults According to The American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, a stereotype is “a Generalization, usually exaggerated or oversimplified and often offensive, that is used to describe or distinguish. Stereotypes are a big problem in our society. It puts labels about how a person should act or live according to their sex, race, personality, and other facts. This could affect individuals who perhaps like different things or do different activities, but feel ashamed of doing so because of stereotypes. Stereotypes like all men like sports or women are not as strong as men, are among the most common in our society. Stereotypes have created a distortion of how every individual should be. We as part of the generation should know how
Young people are between teens and full childhood and full adulthood which is very confusing. Their hormones are raging and some young people don’t know how to deal with problems. Their world is so contracted that only peers can be cool with that. Like in Looking for Alaska Miles had feel in love with Alaska, he wanted to sleep with her. Miles opened his eyes to other people who cared about him, his mind wasn’t so clear when it came to
Alaska. Lara like Miles but after Alaska death Miles and Lara became boyfriend and girlfriend. Alaska had a boyfriend but whatever Miles did for her, he still wasn’t good enough for her. Stereotypes in today’s society are usually to categorize specific groups of people into a general concept that defines them as a single unit. As in Miles in Looking for Alaska Miles, Alaska, Colonel, Lara, and Takumi they supposed to be as one in the gang. But when Alaska tried ratting them out Colonel said that she was breaking the number one rule. Miles was a gawky teenager kind of Nerdy and unsocial until he meet his