Blog 2 Louie Galang

Well, after reading the article, it feels like that some of the thins I’ve noticed about my childhood and the retroactive observations I’ve made looking at the things my brother watches had been somehow proven right. That generalizations do exist from the very beginning, and can be a very slippery slope towards stereotypes. The generalizations come from lots of places, and not just the media. I think my parents had a minor hand in the act of instilling some of these generalizations, even some negative stereotypes, not just the media he consumes. I’ve also been the general product of many of the outside forms of generalization teaching, where I had to learn “Fear” and “Distrust” over various generalized people, cultures, and subcultures. Yet with the exposure to these same factors, I changed “Fear” and “Distrust to “Curiosity” and “Understanding”. I had never experienced black culture until my stepfather came into my life, and showed me so much more than the southern caricatures provided by the media, and that he learned  much about the Filipino culture, being a part of my family as he is now. Then with my brother, who is of both cultures, he will be playing on a different field than I am, who is of mostly one culture. He will have a much wider representation in the media now, along with a much more diverse future ahead. With that come new and different generalizations that I would want to help him understand, before the stereotypes form.