Asumptions & Steriotypes

What do you think of this man? What do you think he does?

When I first looked at this man I saw his patched up jeans, his scruffy beard, trousers that appear to be too short for him, his un-neatly button clothes and assumed that he was some sort of tramp, a homeless person cant afford new clothes exectra exectra but... If you look carefully those patches on his jeans are rather neat and those short trousers are folded neatly and the bottom and are neat and appeared to be ironed, his clothes in fact look brand new except for the rather stupid looking patches on his trousers, and this is because they probably are this man works for one of the most luxury fashion brands in the world Ralph Lauren and has a very important role in the way that there stores look on the inside.



Same questions again what do you think of him? and what did he do?

First impressions he looks like and intelligent man, he is well dressed in what looks to be quite fancy clothes, he looks neat and tidy, he has shaven, hair isn't over grown he looks as if he is quite well of. He looks to me like a teacher or a lawyer, he is reading some papers, which could be students work or papers in court, and as it turns out he is reading papers in court as a lawyer but his own lawyer, because if you didnt reconise this man you probaly should as this man is serial killer, and is know to have killed over 30 people, so I certainly wouldnt want him as my teacher, and this man got close enough to kill so many people becuase of how he looked and acted so the way he looked lead people to asume that he was a nice guy trying to do a nice thing.

And the same again.

I saw this women and thought oh dear, what was she thinking and I know absolutly nothing about fashion an even I know that that is bad, she looks like a rainbow gone wrong, with alot of abstract coloured clothing the funny hat, blue hair the list goes on, I thought that she was a slightly crazy acentric old women that had got lost on the way to the supermarket, but she is one of the most respected women in fashion called Anna Piaggi, she was a writer for Italian Vouge, she had a collection of clothes that includes 2,865 dresses and 265 pairs of shoes and never wore the same outfit out in pulblic more that once.

When we first see people we judge them buy what they look and dress like and relate that to people that we have seen before or things that we see on TV, and what we see then becomes a stero type for anyone else we see dressed like that and that can lead to some seroius missjudgements.