stereotyping

I really agree that you never know how much you are being stereotyped until you step outside your group. It is kind of funny how you literally can be stereotyped for everything, hair color, height, weight, age, ethnicity, social class, where you live, where you go to school, who your relatives are, what social groups you belong too, what kind of car you drive the list can literally go on forever. One time i really remember being stereotyped was when i went abroad to Argentina. When i first arrived many Argentinians thought i was Brazilian and they respected me but as soon as i talked they gave me dirty looks and pretty much hated me, figuring out i was from North America. I was traveling with a blonde and she had the biggest target on her back because there wasn't many blondes in Argentina. When we would walk down the streets people would yell things to us and about us, saying things like go back to the United States, and how we were just "rude Northern Americans" when we were pretty respectful travelers. I thought it was also pretty interesting that if you told a Argentinian that you were from America they would freak out, because they sometimes consider themselves to be "Americans" because they live in south America, you always had to say United States or North America. I really do not think the world will ever break out stereotyping as much as we have evolved it is nearly impossible.