Pet Peeves

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Pet Peeves

Everybody has one, am I right? I have a lot of pet peeves, but I'm not gonna share ALL of it with you, only the ones that piss me the off the most. One of them is prejudice of California. I mean, sure, it isn't the most perfect place on earth, but it pisses me off to no end that people judge you by were you come from. When I go to a different state, people already ask me if I surf or it I live next door to someone famous or if my hair is really blond. I mean, I know where the prejudice comes from because of all those reality TV shows about California, but not everybody is blond. And we're not stupid, mind you. We're actually really smart, like most people. Another one that pisses me off is prejudice towards Mexicans. Just so that everybody is clear, I don't mow lawns or clean random people's houses for a living. Mexicans are just like everybody else. That's what pisses me off, too. Another thing that pisses me off is when people are stereotyping. I don't stereotype myself, I think that everybody is smart in there own way or they do things differently than everybody else. People are not soup cans; their just like everybody else. So, that's all I have to say. Sorry if I bored you or if this was a waste of your time.

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I totally agree. It's almost like sometimes people forget we are the UNITED states of America. There are stereotypes from on coast of our country to the other. I'm from Michigan, and I honestly don't know what the stereotype is there, but I have been living in Arkansas for a couple of months temporarily, and I know what the stereotypes are here. Some places, there are many hillbillies, like I'm sure in Cali there are many 'blonde-haired, dumb, ditzy' girls. People just always think it's so different somewhere in their own country and they judge based on that.

My biggest pet peeve is the prejudice down here. The white race is not the SUPERIOR race, and this is coming from a white "Yankee" as I am called. No race is the superior race. We are the HUMAN race.