I'm pretty sure there's a site for this somewhere that actually has a test to determine this, but this is just for fun, and the answers are based off your own personal assessment on yourself. So, in high school (or when you were in high school for the older members), what category of stereotype would you fall under? Jock, nerd, prep, etc etc. Personally, I'm none of those, which I'm also guessing applies to most of you. I'm actually a mix of almost everything. I can play almost every sport (although I don't really try out for the school teams...except this year of course since its senior year), I get 80 averages...I dress 'preppy' (not really, but thats the closest I can get to describing my style) and I actually have a farily social and easy life in comparison to others...I have never at any point complained about how hard my life has been...because it honestly hasn't. I hate people who complain about how bad thier life is in highschool when they have EVERYTHING, it's ridiculous. I have noticed something...at this point in my life, looking at the people that are around me and that chill with me, there is not one person who truly just falls under one stereotype...which brings me to the main point of this thread. Doesn't it bother you when, in the media, they portray high school kids as only falling under certain classifications? Like the nerd always gets bullied by the jocks etc etc. Honest to god, I have yet to see a "jock" in my school who bullies a nerd. Everyone gets along pretty cool...infact there's no 'bullying' at all...who the hell has time for that? The only 'bullying' is some smart asses who make fun of people who can't diss back. If beef happens, it happens, rarely are "nerds" involved with "jocks". In fact it's usually "nerds vs. nerds" if a fight involving a "nerd" ever happens. And hoenstly I don't think we even have jocks in our school?...Maybe it's just in American high schools? Anyway, discuss. Mods, feel free to move this to media since it's more of a media related topic.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Junoon:</div><div class="quote_post"> Doesn't it bother you when, in the media, they portray high school kids as only falling under certain classifications? Like the nerd always gets bullied by the jocks etc etc. Honest to god, I have yet to see a "jock" in my school who bullies a nerd. Everyone gets along pretty cool...infact there's no 'bullying' at all...who the hell has time for that? The only 'bullying' is some smart asses who make fun of people who can't diss back. If beef happens, it happens, rarely are "nerds" involved with "jocks". In fact it's usually "nerds vs. nerds" if a fight involving a "nerd" ever happens. And hoenstly I don't think we even have jocks in our school?...Maybe it's just in American high schools? </div> Rofl, at that the truth. Last year when I was in High School two nerds had a fight over Yu-Gi-Oh cards.
lol, Nerd fights are awesome. I remember watching two fight over dungeons and dragons or something like that. I also don't really fit into any stereotypes. In high school, I was in an enhanced class, so people assumed I was nerdish. But, I was way dumber/lazier than everybody in that class, so some people thought I was a slacker. But, I was also a really active soccer/basketball player, so people thought I was jockish. Now, when people hear I'm going to university, they assume I'm in engineering/medicine. I dunno, maybe I'm just versatile. And when I go to an airport, people assume I'm a terrorist (j/k).
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Chutney:</div><div class="quote_post"> And when I go to an airport, people assume I'm a terrorist (j/k).</div>
i'm 5 years separated from high school but i think high schools in the gta here in canada aren't divided by your generic classifications as much as by race. i'm tamil-sri lankan and some how managed to hang out with the 6 other indo-canadian kids at the school. two of the guys were also tamil and had strong gang affliations as well as built like linebackers so the entire school was afriad of me. yet, i was easily the smartest dude in our crew so i was also the nerd of the group relative to the morons in my makeshift crew. in oac things changed, i got my own car and started dating a girl from outside our clique. after high school i went to university, my family moved to north toronto and i only keep in touch with one of those guys.
I didn't know you were Lankan. But yeah, Lankans definetly have a little bit of a "power" advnatage, especially at around my area. Basically, a tamil crew usually consists of 5 or 6 LITERAL refs (behaviour wise, talking wise, dressing wise), but they'll consist of one dude who has all these tamil connections or is cousins with some dude in the Tamil Tigers (the GTA gang...not the actual Tamil Tigers of course) or something. So if one of thier crew members (no matter how reffed or nerdy they might be) gets punked by someone else, the tamils have a habit of threatening people by either talking in tamil to them when they're walking by or involving 90 other people in thier fights.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting P.A.P.:</div><div class="quote_post"></div> dude don't laugh. I hate admitting this but I was on the train once and an arab guy was sitting near me, talking and writing in arabic. Only to himself but, as ashamed I am to have thought it, I thought he could have been a terrorist. And I am tolerant of anyone in real life. As for me, I consider myself a jerd. A jock / nerd. Good at sports and love Star Wars and Harry Potter.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Junoon:</div><div class="quote_post">I didn't know you were Lankan. But yeah, Lankans definetly have a little bit of a "power" advnatage, especially at around my area. Basically, a tamil crew usually consists of 5 or 6 LITERAL refs (behaviour wise, talking wise, dressing wise), but they'll consist of one dude who has all these tamil connections or is cousins with some dude in the Tamil Tigers (the GTA gang...not the actual Tamil Tigers of course) or something. So if one of thier crew members (no matter how reffed or nerdy they might be) gets punked by someone else, the tamils have a habit of threatening people by either talking in tamil to them when they're walking by or involving 90 other people in thier fights.</div> i don't hang out with those kids anymore- the enforcers in our crew were two tamil twins, the rest of us, excluding me were a hodgepodge of different indo-canadian groups. its kinda funny reflecting back on those days- i've completely changed and i think a better person for it. also, about tamils and the propensity to violence- junoon is partially correct but there is a lot of things he doesn't know about. the biggest wave of tamil gang violence occured in the late 90's; the people junoon are describing are benefactors of the hype. moreover, the tamil diaspora out of sri lanka had many waves and canada experienced the last wave of refugee seekers who mostly came from impoverished backgrounds.to that end junoon- in the united states tamils are considered immigrant exemplar; u would be suprised by how many obscenely wealthy tamils there in the world.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Chutney:</div><div class="quote_post">lol, Nerd fights are awesome. I remember watching two fight over dungeons and dragons or something like that. I also don't really fit into any stereotypes. In high school, I was in an enhanced class, so people assumed I was nerdish. But, I was way dumber/lazier than everybody in that class, so some people thought I was a slacker. But, I was also a really active soccer/basketball player, so people thought I was jockish. Now, when people hear I'm going to university, they assume I'm in engineering/medicine. I dunno, maybe I'm just versatile. And when I go to an airport, people assume I'm a terrorist (j/k).</div> ****, I'm glad you're jk'ing. I'm lebanese and latin, but everytime I go to an airport, I get searched twice at least because of some "glitch". It's always when I'm about to board, too. They find some "error" in the security check and have my family and I rechecked. OMG I almost went off on the bitch last november, ugh pissed me off so bad.
I'm always getting harassed for my large penis. When I get on a plane they think im smuggling bazookas and I get felt in very strange ways. You guys have it lucky.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Shard:</div><div class="quote_post">I'm always getting harassed for my large penis. When I get on a plane they think im smuggling bazookas and I get felt in very strange ways. You guys have it lucky.</div> Just do like I do, wrap it around like a belt. I don't think I really belong to a stereotype, and I'm not sure there really are that many of them here in Sweden. Schools don't take sports as seriously as in the US, so we don't have any jocks, cheerleaders or anything else like that. Of course, you still got nerds and goths and whatnots, but I think those are almost universal.
I fall into the "omg i thought u were a nerd" category just because im Pakistani. Well, not to mention, I do have all honors classes along with on AP. Nerd? And then, "Are you afghanistan?" "You know Osama?" .................................................. And I automatically suck at sports cuz im from Pakistan.
I kinda fall under the "big scary black man" stereotype..even though most people will tell you I'm pretty friendly.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting TheBlackMamba:</div><div class="quote_post">****, I'm glad you're jk'ing. I'm lebanese and latin, but everytime I go to an airport, I get searched twice at least because of some "glitch". It's always when I'm about to board, too. They find some "error" in the security check and have my family and I rechecked. OMG I almost went off on the bitch last november, ugh pissed me off so bad.</div> I'm partly joking. I get that treatment too, a bit. But, Toronto's airport is situated right next to a huge South Asian community (they immigrate here and are too lazy to find a home away from the airport?) and the staff is generally pretty diverse. I hate airports outside Canada, though. People stare and you feel like your in a zoo. My dad got it the worst: on a flight back from Dallas, they kicked him off the plane, because some dude was afraid to sit near him and complained that he was being disruptive.
I fall into the prep category because I wear Hollister, American Eagle, and clothes like that. I hang out with everyone though, I am the starting point guard for the basketball team and I have a B average so I guess a lot of the stereotypes would apply for me.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Shard:</div><div class="quote_post">I'm always getting harassed for my large penis. When I get on a plane they think im smuggling bazookas and I get felt in very strange ways. You guys have it lucky.</div> I dunno what kind of stereotype I am. I'm smart, play basketball, and talk to a lot of girls.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Chutney:</div><div class="quote_post">I'm partly joking. I get that treatment too, a bit. But, Toronto's airport is situated right next to a huge South Asian community (they immigrate here and are too lazy to find a home away from the airport?) and the staff is generally pretty diverse. I hate airports outside Canada, though. People stare and you feel like your in a zoo. My dad got it the worst: on a flight back from Dallas, they kicked him off the plane, because some dude was afraid to sit near him and complained that he was being disruptive.</div> What airline was this? I'll make sure to boycott it.
That is rediculous, seriously. Flying and even going to the airport in general is getting worse and worse these days. I remember in 04' I was connecting flights at CDG - Paris and I had a small wallet chain on. They asked me to take it off despite it being barelly able to fit around someone's wrist. I just simply said, "ok fine I'll take it off and put it in my luggage" and instead they continued to take me by my jacket and slammed me into a wall face first and a military guy pointed his assult rifle at my face until they took the chain off and searched me. I nearly missed my flight because of this which would've forced me to stay in the airport waiting for the next flight two days later. The only ones who are suffering from this "safety" BS are the people who have nothing to do with the terrorism.
