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time flies and its time for my weekly post again.
the long awaited Gossip Girl Season 3 has just begun,
and I'm just so fascinated I decided to write a commentary about an article about it.:)
as usual, please, please leave your comments.:)
I refer to the article by Lydia Rendon about the the new episode of GG.
As weeks pass, I realized that that was learnt in the communications module does really apply in every single piece of information we receive by ear (phone, music), sight (movies,articles).
First Impression matters a lot and sometimes, it is quite hard to change that perception of someone or something due to the first impression. By that, the theory about past experiences holds true because the first impression will always result to be a past experience with time.
In her article, Rendon adopted quite a satirical tone with the sentence "Oh, how convenient it is that all the GG kids go to NYU, even home-schooled Vanessa.".
well, Perhaps her intention wasn't sarcastic at all (remember that non verbal communication is always receiver oriented), but that got me thinking about social norms yet again. We all know that by season 3, Vanessa is probably the only one left who's not in high society. Even the Humphreys "upgraded" themselves when Rufus wedded Lily. Typical perception has it saying that only the rich and known gets to NYU, and of course meritocracy. It was a bit too much of a coincidence that Vanessa could actually get into it. In real life, is that really possible? Then again, is it true that just because the majority of top universities consist of the rich,famous and brains, it has to be that much of a "surprise" that a mundane mid class, low profile but smart student can enter?
"Similarity", one of the ways of organizing information accords group stimuli to prototypes. abstract and complex indicators. Students in NYU have their own identity base on their fame, wealth and intelligence. This, besides being a group stimuli, on a larger picture, becomes social perception. It is hard to break because this is precisely how our mind selects, organizes and interpret information. By studying the perception process, it is then probably easier to understand why is it that social perception,the herd mentality is so hard to break. It is already within us, almost like a natural process in the mind to take in information from what we see around us and from there form a perception.
Hey hey seems like i'm the first to comment. haha, I feel that u got a pt there. First impression has become a benchmark to judge a person. Thus, one could become unfair when passing a judgement. I think that, its human tendency to group person using similarity and proximity. We tend to grp the rich, smart ppl as 1 grp, the poor and not so intelligent as 1. So it become sort of discrimination, perhaps thats the way society taught us to survive. In order not to being discriminated, one has to be successful and rich. :)
ReplyDeletethis may be a case of generalization and stereotype which is brought about due to social perception.
ReplyDeletehowever, realistically, i dont think that only the rich and famous can enter NYU. a majority of them may have some status, but there are handfuls who make it there purely because they are smart as well.
we (the general public) should really learn not the be so stereotypical and make judgements based on facts, not perception!
Now in society, people always use first impression to judge a person. That causes unfairness. I think people should learn not to stereotype others base on what they feel.
ReplyDeletelynn`