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What in our society leads to stereotypes and prejudgements?
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Our society today is extremely judgemental. If you do not act, speak, look or dress a certain way your are immidiatly labeled. Amy Tan found this out while growing up. Her Mother was treated as a second class citizen because she could not speak proper English. People perceived her as inadequate. Similarly, in Ways Of Seeing, Berger discusses how gender roles and perceptions effect every one in our society. Both these stories demonstrate how judgemental our society can be and also, how perception is so important to status. In " Mother Tongue" Tan discusses how different languages and dialects that people use reflect upon them. For instance, she tells us her mother speaks a very broken English. Because of this broken English, many people treat her with disrespect and they believe she is slow or dull witted. However, what people don't know is that she reads many difficult authors, talks...
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