Stereotypes Are....

Well, to me, they mean garbage. Their junk-not real or fake. Stereotypes are society made beliefs about different types of people, places, or things. Sharks are born to kill (so not true) police officers eat doughnuts, and Alaska we live in igloos. See what I mean? Society has created these  'beliefs' for what purpose? To make life easier? I mean, whose benefitting from this? 

Alaska seems to be a major disastrous stereotype state. I have had countless encounters with people, tv shows, and even advertisements that portray Alaska as some form of the Arctic. One girl I chatted with once asked me how we got food every day. She was going on about asking what kinds of animals we ate, and if we were next to Hawaii, why was it so cold where we were, but not in Hawaii? I was having the greatest time just seeing the kinds of things that she thought were real. 

Then the confusion happened. I had to tell her that Alaska was connected to Canada, and that we were right above Washington state, and that we were the biggest state in the U.S. which really confused her. Then, to make it even MORE funny, I had to explain to her that we had stores, giant shopping malls on the mainland, paved roads, heck, even Starbucks on our puny little island. 

The point that I am trying to get across is that sometimes we just need to see things for ourselves. Or just not believe what society wants you to believe. There are those things that need to be seen and not heard.