Lately, I've been trying to think over some things and why people act the ways they do and it all leads to this one simply stated, yet not simply answered, question: What makes a person? Is it the type of music they listen to? Or is it the way they dress? Or could it be their religious beliefs/outlook on life? Whatever it is that makes a person in one's eyes, the person has officially been stereotyped. The immediate reaction to someone in black is to assume they're gothic, or if someone is bumping with a loud bass track, they're ghetto. But what about those that don't want to be stereotyped? They simply end up lost in the cracks of society.
What if there's a boy dressed in black with black eyeliner and stringy long hair, that has a passion for Jessica Simpson music and the church? Yes, somewhat unlikely combination, but I bet he's out there somewhere! But society has a hard time understanding him because of the unlikely semiotic domain combinations.
Or another odd semiotic domain combination, a super girly girl (I mean wears something pink every day and constantly smiles kind of girly girl) listens to nothing but the Grateful Dead and watches only Indy films. It's quite striking to me that the slightest of things can change one's perception of another. The signs get misconstrued and assumptions are made and they are not always reliable. So perhaps the real question that I've been trying to figure out is why does society put people into such non-conforming stereotypes? Yes, this is definitely the problem.
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