Stereotypes Of Homeless People Essay

Most of us pass by people we don’t normally notice in our everyday lives. Others pass by people and immediately ‘judge a book by it’s cover’. I usually never pay attention to those who I pass by because I am either too busy focusing on where I am going or have too much on my mind. I am not a multitasker. The only time I actually pay attention to someone is when they’re expressing their wardrobe, creating attention, or having a unique hairstyle. That is when I judging them inside my mind which is a bad habit because I am judging them and not even knowing the reason behind it.
I feel that homeless people never really get recognized. For me, I know for a fact that I don’t pay attention to them because I grew up mostly knowing that if you give a homeless person money
The film “Art from the Streets” is a big example on what stereotypes people have on the homeless. When people were shown a great piece of art they wouldn’t expect it from a homeless person; they would think someone with great talent painted the picture. Another example is a video I saw on social media with three young men filming a documentary on a homeless person thinking they would expose him to show people that if you give them money they will most likely spend it on either drugs or alcohol. One was filming it and the other was giving the homeless person $50. He walked away and then him and the other two guys secretly followed him and saw he was going into a liquor store. Within minutes the homeless guy came out with a brown bag and went to the park and there you saw a group of homeless people. The homeless guy pulled out his brown bag and in it was a loaf of bread that he was giving to the others. The guys who were filming it went to him and told them what they were doing and apologized for judging him because they thought he used they money they give him to spend it on drugs or