Social Norms In The Fab Five

“Your perception of the world around you is not necessarily the same as what is actually occurring” said by Peter and Laura Ralston. What they mean is how you look at the world presented to you is not how it might be forever, it is only temporary. Also the way we look at people in the modern world involves us taking a glance to judge a person based on that image we have of them. We try to vilify people in our heads by constantly hating on them and making reasons to hate that person, that we want to have violent fantasies developing. In orderto go beyond your perception, you must change a few people’s minds and/or social norms. One example of this, is the view people had on Christian Laettner. People hate Christian Laettner because he was good looking and great at basketball. Since he had these qualities, everyone was out to get Laettner on anything to prove to themselves that Laettner was flawed. Because Laettner was good at what he did people felt the need to pick on Laettner because of how he acted or how did something. In the end, Laettner took the hate that fans had for him and made it into a joke, and didn’t take it seriously.

The Fab Five defined the apparel of how we play basketball. The baggy basketball shorts and the black socks changed how we dress for a game. The Fab Five made being a black kid in the 80’s cool. Other player and alumni did not like the changes that were happening to the school they were formerly at. Subsequently, the public shamed the Fab Five of the changes they were trying to put forth. They did not care what the public thought, because they were the second best team out in the country. In conclusion, the Fab Five were a catalyst for change in the basketball community by how they dressed and by how they acted proving that our reality of how we perceived changes in basketball were just nit picky things to get angry