May 8, 2007

Stereotypes.......

Stereotyped....how I love that word, still hate it...As a extreme right winger, I have always practised the policy of stereotyping and at the same time broken many stereotypes. What are stereotypes ? How good are they ? In the many facets of life, one comes across many stereotypes..In life, career, family, choosing a life partner, work places, church places....anywhere. We are governed by stereotypes...silly set of rules. In all the different facets of life we are governed by many set of rules...Nowadays I wonder even the word different is actually stereotyped. The Malayalam film director Vinayan always advertises his movie as different, blatantly flicking the premise from a Hollywood movie in the process. So much for being different...bloody man like his other lot in the same industry has stereotyped the word 'different'! Well its no easy breaking stereotypes in real life, one somehow has to pay a heavy price in breaking stereotypes. Yours truly had a bitter experience an year and a half ago as I came here right after my exams looking for a job! the price I had to pay was a dozen months waiting...! so much for even trying to break stereotypes.
It's been quite a while now...but we as a society has been so governed by stereoyped versions of life that we fail to look into different possibilities. Well trying something different needn't be always good and many a time its a tricky word to even contemplate.
Well getting on with the banter, what hurts me most is the fact that, when stereotyping of individuals on the basis of color, race, creed, nationality and the dangerous of them all...religion, that's when the problem begins. The world today is filled with stereotypes that we see it in all spheres of life. Yours truly at work is an enginner, later while going out and Indian, still at some places coloured and many a times known as a Christian. Bloody stereotyping..What can you do ? Nothing...What can I do...Bore you with this stupid banter...hahaha. Anyways stereotyping actually endorses God's plan which was enacted eons back as the tower of Babel was built and the people who were speaking together in the same language, got scattered as each started speaking in strange tongues....It has been like that to this day...Hallelujiah!

No comments: