Angel Beltran
English 1 A
03-05-009
How I am Perceived By Others
When people look at me I know they are trying to figure out who I am just by the way that I look and this always makes me feel a little depressed because I know that all they see is some Mexican who is most likely uneducated and probably in some gang. I know that they never see me as a full time college student who is also working part time at a grocery store in some little tourist town. This is how I believe people who do not know me usually perceive me as and I think it’s not because people have strong stereotypes towards me but more because of what they see on televisions every single night. I have gotten use to it by now but that doesn’t make things better it just allows others to keep their inaccurate perception of me.
Some people might think to themselves that nobody is ever judging them or that nobody would ever think anything wrong about them. I am not on of those people because I know that we are all constantly being judged by the people around us. Some people may deny this but I know that everyone their own interpretation of who some one is from the moment they see that person. I am not saying that their interpretations are always negative and I’m definitely not saying that they are always correct about the person. I am just saying that when ever you meet or see someone you don’t know you automatically make an assumption of who that person is. I also believe that people can never truly learn not to do this but only learn how not to let it effect how they later perceive that person.
I know that people make a lot of perceptions about me when they fist see me because of the way I look and also because of were I live. I am about six feet tall, weigh over two hundred pounds, and have a tendency to wear a lot of black and red colored clothing and I am a Mexican born and raised. When people first see me they have a tendency to think of me as a violent person because the colors I usually wear are gang related. In reality though nothing could be further from the truth because I am a person who truly hates confrontations and tries to avoid them as much as possible. As for me wearing red and black they just happen to be my favorite colors and just because some gang declared it “their color” doesn’t mean I wont were it. As for people judging me for being a Mexican there is really nothing I can’t do about it without giving up a major part of my identity. What I mean by this is that a lot of people look down on or just down right fear Mexicans who look like me and in order for me to make people not think that about me would require me to live by their standards and I just absolutely refuse to do that.
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I was a bit hard for me to find you thesis, but i think it's the part when you said that people perceives you because of what they see on television. I think your sentences are a little bit big, you might want to separate them. Although you show good points by saying how you think people perceives you and what it makes you feel.
ReplyDeleteYour paragraphs are good, you might want to add some examples, like experiences you had when you were being misjudged.
Counter clamis; i haven't seen any yet, but you could write about the good perceptions people has about you.
I am agree with you, most people perceives other by the first impression they have of them, and most of the times they are wrong.
In your last paragraph you talk about the place where you live, you might want to describe it.
You could make another paragraph from the last sentence that you wrote, about your identity.
You did a good work, good luck with rest, have a great spring break ^_^