April
18
ELA B10 Judging others based on perceptions…
- The final short sub-unit in our discussion on Inequality began today. We discussed two short poems and the questions that went with them. We talked about how some young teens are ‘shadowed’ when they go into clothing stores because they fit the physical profile, by the way they behave and dress, of shoplifters. Someone well dressed who walks in and is confident can usually shop without being bothered. Someone, however, who is dressed in baggy clothes with a hoody up over their head covering their face and who is walking around but constantly looking to see where the workers are is more likely to be followed. They seem more interested in the sales people than the clothes.
Sometimes people are treated differently because of the perception others have of them, whether those perceptions are accurate or not.