Turkeys In The Kitchen Summary

Show Them How To Have Courage Stereotypes rule today’s society and they determine how we walk, talk and go about our everyday lives. You cannot go through an entire day without being exposed to some sort of stereotype, forcing people to make a daily decision. Do you just accept stereotypes or attempt to break away from them? Everyone is aware that making judgments about people before you know them is morally wrong, yet many people struggle to avoid doing just this. It is easier to just follow the crowd and conform to popular beliefs than take the time to realize that most of these assumptions about people are not true. Stereotypes are being buried too deep into our culture and it is time to show the younger generations that they should not be apart of us. Rather, than talking about stereotypes and how to tiptoe around them, we should be talking about stereotypes and how to break them down.
Barry, Staples, and Cofer are just three of the essayists that we have read this semester that used the theme of stereotypes in their essays. In Staple's essay, “Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Spaces”, he addresses the stereotypes placed on middle-aged black men. In Barry’s essay, “Turkeys in the Kitchen”, he mentions the stereotypes placed on men in today's society. In Cofer’s essay, “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria”, she talks about the stereotypes placed upon Latin and Hispanic women. These three authors mention how other people's quick judgments affect their everyday lives. Staples explains how, in order to not be humiliated or avoided in public, he changes himself to make the people around him happy and more comfortable. By doing this, he is giving into the judgments of society and teaching younger generations that stereotypes control people's everyday