Daily Write 8/29

This weekend’s readings and Adichie’s talk are related through the common thread of identity and profiling someone without even knowing them. Alexie shows the everyday trials of being profiled for a person of color and Adiche shows us how people profile a group as only one part of the whole instead of looking as person and each part as individual. I connect on a personal level because I think everyone is profiled in some aspect of their life it may not be because of skin color or as harsh of profiling as some get but I think everyone is profiled in some way because of the things they do, the way they talk, the way they dress, where they live or who they hang out with. For instance, just walking around campus you could see a blonde and you could automatically assume that she’s dumb but in reality without speaking to her you have no idea, she could be valedictorian for all you know. Blonde’s are dumb is more of a stereotype but I think that stereotypes and profiling go hand in hand and strip a person of their individuality and their humanity.