Thread: Labels in Society

labeling in society is can sometimes be attributed to a lot of the problems we encounter daily... your appearence is mostly what people will label.. or i guess "classify" you.... so.. depending upon the label, they'll either accept you or reject you... from firsthand experience.. i can most definately say i am the complete opposite of what i look like.. but thats too bad for the label crazy people that cannot put such a thing as a person's appearence aside just to socialize with them.... what's even worse is when the labeling is done only to point out differences that might make one superior to the one being labeled.

I don't care much about labels
don't really care what people think about me
they can think whatever the hell they want
they can think of me as "the crazy quiet asian person who sits in the corner reading Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and wears black everyday"
or just "the lazy filipino person with the goatee"
yes... these sacks of meat and skin called "human" can label me whatever the hell they want
me not care
me go and get headache from serial experiments Lain and draw the "question sleep" symbol everywhere

...indeed...

I'm an otaku, or perhaps better known as loser. And it is clear why. No life.

_ Koboshi has a future.

I'm well known as ketaro the anime lover at school just because i like anime, my friends also call me crazy because i watch this awesome japanese cartoons called anime.

The social psychology explanation for the use of labels is for the mind to be able to quickly judge persons you just met or meet rarely, and be able to not use too much of your energy. If all persons had to throughly study each person they met, their brains would melt (metaphor ) and they wouldn't meet as many people.

Also, as a sociology student, I suggest you also take a look at what is called the Labelling Theory, if you're interested: http://www.soci.canterbury.ac.nz/res...labellin.shtml .

i guess some of my friends would kinda consider me weird 'cause i'm into anime, and they're not....but at my high school thankfully there's others like me...thank u, japanese club...

I'm a hard one to label, I suppose. I have friends who consist of the popular jock crowd, but I don't consider myself one. I guess you could label my as the nerdy class clown, seeing as how I make most laugh.