Field Labors Dealing with Stereotypes Society Inputs on Them

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Getting food on our table is easy right? But, never imagine how tough is it for a field worker to get this food from the earth and hand it to us without us having to do anything? Well, if you answered yes to this question then this essay will get your full attention. In this society, there are many misconception on many different topics. Whether it is a negative one, which always seems to be, but there might be some positive misconceptions also. Such positive misconceptions might be when people think chubby people are the nicest people that one meets but the reality is not every chubby people are nice they can also be mean or even aggressive. Some negative misconceptions are people that have tattoos are criminals and dangerous. And that they don’t have any good feelings toward someone or life.

But in some cases those tattoos represent someone, something or a religion. This leads me to stereotypes which mean an over generalized brief about a group or class of people. The difference between this two are that a misconception is a view or an opinion that is incorrect because of faulty thinking and a stereotypes is when you make a general idea of how a group of people are where some might not be what that generalization is. Why do people do this? Well there might be many reasons why they do this it might be because one person started saying a group of people are a type of way and spread it or publicized it. Or maybe because a minority of group of people showed a way they are and put it out to the public and people started thinking if they are like this then maybe everyone in this group are the same. Field workers is one of many groups that have faced many hardships trying to make a living for their families and not only do they h...

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...but the biggest one they have yet to face is dealing with the misconceptions society inputs on them.

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Brooks, David. “Honor Code”. New York Times 6 July 2012, New York ed.: A23.Print.

Chaudhuri, Shaoli. "Into the Fields." SAF-Unite.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Feb. 2014. .

Jimenez, Heriberto. “Personal Interview”.Interviewer: Odeh Martinez.04 Feb.2014

Marentes, Carlos. "The Struggle in California." The Struggle in California. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Feb. 2014. .

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