"Within normalizing communities, some individuals are subject positions (white, middle class, male heterosexual, etc) get privileged are represented as "normal" white other individuals and subject positions (i.e. black, working class, female, homosexual, etc) are disempowered are represented as deviant, sick, neurotic, criminal, lazy, lacking in intelligence, and in other ways "abnormal".
In my opinion, I just don't understand why nobody is treated equally. Everyone should all have the definition on being normal, and no one being abnormal. Everyone is different and unique in their own way, and people should just accept people for the way they are. We can't just judge people from how they act, which part of class they come from, etc. Fairness and normality for everyone.
"Being yourself celebrates individualism and the autonamy of individuals to construct their own lives according to their own values and achieve goals they set for themselves- a deep foundational value in American culture".
I feel that this explains a lot for an individual. Everyone makes up who you are as a person. Everyone individual has their own way of living, their own achievements in life, and what they believe is best for their own self. This is what makes up a persons individuality. Everyone has their own way of living, and it's all about the lifestyle that individual lives in.
"Popular culture may represent identity, but identity also is represented in corporeal form, as individuals actively" live" their identities and make these identities visible in their everyday relations."
The majority of people get their identities from they way they live with relations with people. They way the people live and make out their identity, makes up the type of person that person is. Everyday relations tie down to this because we are surrounded by people, and we are also influences by what is around us the majority of the time.
You said, "Everyone is different and unique in their own way, and people should just accept people for the way they are". I agree. What makes anyone better than anyone else and who decided what was "normal" or "abnormal". I'd like to meet that person.
ReplyDeleteI agree with both of you guys again. It takes all sorts of people to make up this world. The reason some people are so unaccepting is because they are scared and do not understand. Without individuals where would we be?
ReplyDeleteI agree with all three of you ladies...if everyone were the same, we would have a pretty boring world!
ReplyDeletePopular culture does in fact affect how people act and how the precede life. i think that is a bad idea because everybody is different and this is forcing people to all conform to one image and forcing them to change and not be themselves.
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