Labels and Identity 12122017 Street Calculus Whats happening

Labels and Identity 12/12/2017

Street Calculus • What’s happening in this image? • What do you notice about what each person is thinking in his thought bubble? • How are each of their thoughts similar? How are they different?

Street Calculus • Do you think the situation depicted here is realistic? Do people use similar “lists” to make judgments about each other? • How aware do you think people are of the lists they make? When someone sees you walking down the street, what lists might they make about you? What lists do you sometimes make about others?

• How might these lists shape choices people make (beyond greeting each other)? What would it take to change the lists people make about each other?

• Label: A name, word, or phrase used to classify or categorize a person or thing (labels are often, but not always, inaccurate) • Assumption: Something that is accepted as true before one gathers any proof that it is so • Stereotype: An often incorrect assumption made about all of the members of a particular group

What kind of Asian are you? • What does the man want to know about the woman jogger? Why do he have such a difficult time asking his question clearly? • What characteristics does he associate with being Korean?

What kind of Asian are you? • How does the woman jogger respond? • What point is she trying to make when she asks the man where he is from? • What effect did stereotypes have on this conversation?

Still Me Inside • Identify what adjustments Mai Goda makes to change here appearance from “Dork to punk”? • Interpret Goda’s meaning when she writes “I felt somewhat obliged to appease the stereotype imposed on me? What was the stereotype?

Still Me Inside • Comment on the truth of this statement: “Goda’s identity never changed. ” • Explain how labels, assumptions, and stereotypes affect how other people see us? • Explain how might labels, assumptions, and stereotypes affect how we see ourselves?