As individuals we consciously and subconsciously gravitate toward people that are like us. Take for example the lunch tables at AHS, where one can easily identify an obvious similarity amongst groups from table to table. It can be ethnicity, style of clothing, attitude towards academics and so on.
Identifying oneself with an IB crowd, an ethnic background, a country, or any other kind of identification is natural.
Personally I think stereotypes, which are generalized and often offensive labels of identifications, have less potential to cause a problem in a remarkably diverse place like AHS.
I’ve faced stereotypes from my friends here, and more often than not they’re trying to be funny rather than serious.
We give meaning to stereotypes by choosing whether they will be offensive to us or not. I think AHS students understand this pretty well.
