Homework Project - Please Help

[caro]

DD is doing a college project and I said I'd ask for help from you lot in canvassing opinions. She has to make a documentary on any subject she likes and has chosen the subject of stereotypes. Could as many of you as possible please answer the following.

What would you think of the following. Please give an example of what you think represents each of them?

 

 

Goth

 

 

 

Chav

 

 

 

Townie

 

 

 

Skater

 

 

Do you think people judge teenagers by the way they look without knowing what they are really like?

 

All help much appreciated.

[gizmo111]

DD is doing a college project and I said I'd ask for help from you lot in canvassing opinions. She has to make a documentary on any subject she likes and has chosen the subject of stereotypes. Could as many of you as possible please answer the following.

 

 

What would you think of the following. Please give an example of what you think represents each of them?

 

 

Goth

Black clothes, heavy make up, heavy music,

Chav

Alcoholic teenage mothers, agressive manner, burberry

, nike

 

Townie

Like chavs but more friendly

 

 

Skater

Greasy, just skate, have no friends

 

Do you think people judge teenagers by the way they look without knowing what they are really like?

Yes

 

All help much appreciated.

 

Answers from my 15 year old daughter:rolleyes:

[caro]

Well she'd be more likely to know. Please thank her Gizmo. My daughter did suggest that people might ask their kids. Hint hint!!

[Ell-enn]

DD is doing a college project and I said I'd ask for help from you lot in canvassing opinions. She has to make a documentary on any subject she likes and has chosen the subject of stereotypes. Could as many of you as possible please answer the following.

What would you think of the following. Please give an example of what you think represents each of them?

 

 

Goth,

Black make up & clothes

 

 

Chav

Gold, gold and more gold, suntan, burberry

 

 

Townie

Designer handbags and shoes

 

 

Skater

Baggy trousers, hogs pavements

 

Do you think people judge teenagers by the way they look without knowing what they are really like?

Yes, unfortunately

 

All help much appreciated.

Answers from a 50+ year old:D

[saintly_1]

DD is doing a college project and I said I'd ask for help from you lot in canvassing opinions. She has to make a documentary on any subject she likes and has chosen the subject of stereotypes. Could as many of you as possible please answer the following.

What would you think of the following. Please give an example of what you think represents each of them?

 

 

Goth

 

All black 24/7 pale faced with dark eye make-up

 

Chav

 

Hats ,trackies,trainers, MC'in out loud on their phone

 

Townie

 

similar to a chav

 

Skater

Always on a skateboard very baggy jeans (with crotch below their knees)

 

Do you think people judge teenagers by the way they look without knowing what they are really like?

 

Yep no question about it

 

All help much appreciated.

 

 

Answered by my 16yr old daughter

[Liberty59]

What would you think of the following. Please give an example of what you think represents each of them?

 

 

Goth

 

Black clothes; black hair; pale skin as if they're scared of the sun; serious looking (does not often smile);

 

Chav

 

Essex boy/girl; trashy; dresses top to toe in designer gear, usually burberry - that might be knock-off; maybe "stella"; alco-pop drinker; oversize gold jewellery; faker -it's all about labels and money - no soul.

 

 

Townie

 

steers clear of wellies and muddy fields; often pays £2+ for coffee rather than 90p at the 'caff'; unlikely to know or socialise with neighbours - unless they have have lived in same house for 30 years; has fab kitchen but never cooks in it;

 

 

Skater

 

wears a hoodie and denim; dirty, unwashed, greasy hair; teenage boy that spends most of the day outdoors; is daring and loves the thrill of danger; knows 'his' way to his nearest a&e

 

Do you think people judge teenagers by the way they look without knowing what they are really like?

Of course. But people judge people by the way they look too. And teenagers are poorly portrayed in the media. So if a "gang" of teenagers get on the train, passengers often look away for fear of inciting conflict

 

Hope this is helpful X

[chocolatte]

What would you think of the following. Please give an example of what you think represents each of them?

 

 

Goth

Keep themselves to themselves, listen to EMO type music, sad and depressing, black black and more black

 

 

 

Chav

Poor council estate dirty unwashed and uneducated, thick and find it difficult to comunicate with people outwith their groups. Arrogant, violant, (prbably due to the paranoia due to all the dope smoking), ugly, spotty, scruffy, hugely unaware at how stupid the are and how they dress, trakkies, ponytails, that stupid block hair dying, just complete waste of spaces, sponging off tax payers, lazy, hundreds of kids, criminal behaviour.....need i go on?

 

 

 

Townie

A more up market Chav

 

 

 

Skater

Keep themselves to themselves, artistic, casual, happy, fun seekers

 

 

Do you think people judge teenagers by the way they look without knowing what they are really like?

YES

[ananya]

DD is doing a college project and I said I'd ask for help from you lot in canvassing opinions. She has to make a documentary on any subject she likes and has chosen the subject of stereotypes. Could as many of you as possible please answer the following.

What would you think of the following. Please give an example of what you think represents each of them?

 

 

Goth

 

Silver jewellery, piercings, pale makeup, black hair, loud, depressing music

 

Chav

 

Obnoxious, stripey legged trousers, baseball cap, oversized gold jewellery, sovereign rings, scraped back hair into pony tail

 

Townie

 

Designer clothes, wouldn't know a plant unless it grew starbucks coffee, self centered

 

Skater

 

Laid back, loose casual clothes, enjoys a good time, physically fit

 

Do you think people judge teenagers by the way they look without knowing what they are really like?

 

Yes, everyone is guilty of basing opinions on appearances, be it race, religion, size, sex etc...

 

All help much appreciated.

 

All the best from a wrinkly, grey 38 year old

[caro]

Aw thanks guys. This is just what's needed.

 

Get the feeling you prefer skaters to chavs chocolatte.

[Brassed off]

DD is doing a college project and I said I'd ask for help from you lot in canvassing opinions. She has to make a documentary on any subject she likes and has chosen the subject of stereotypes. Could as many of you as possible please answer the following.

What would you think of the following. Please give an example of what you think represents each of them?

 

 

Goth

Well, I've met a couple - black eye make up (and nails) and a nice white face - bit punkish (showing my age here )

 

 

Chav

Bo *goes for a Google*

 

 

 

Townie

Someone who lives in a town?

 

 

 

Skater

Well I did do roller skating as a kid

 

 

Do you think people judge teenagers by the way they look without knowing what they are really like?

It really depends on the person. Me personally, no way jose

 

All help much appreciated.

 

Answers from someone well over 40 who's had a couple of glasses of the old vino (well, it is Wednesday ) and can't be bothered to do a "Google"

[MilkTrayMan]

What would you think of the following. Please give an example of what you think represents each of them?

 

 

Goth - MY type of peeps based purely on info below

Goths, ancient Teutonic people, who in the 3rd to the 6th century ad were an important power in the Roman world. The Goths were the first Germanic peoples to become Christians. According to the 6th-century Gothic historian Jordanes, the Goths came from Sweden across the Baltic Sea to the basin of the Wisła. By the 3rd century ad they had migrated as far south as the lower Danube, around the Black Sea. During that century Gothic armies and fleets ravaged Thrace, Dacia, and cities in Asia Minor and along the Aegean coast. They captured and plundered Athens in 267 to 268, and threatened Italy. For about a century, wars between the Roman emperors and Gothic rulers devastated the Balkan territory and the north-east Mediterranean region. Other peoples joined the Goths, and under the great king Ermanaric in the 4th century, a kingdom was established that extended from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea.

About 370 the Goths divided into two separate groups. The Ostrogoths (Low Latin Ostrogothae, “the eastern Goths”) inhabited a large kingdom east of the Dnestr River on the shores of the Black Sea (part of modern Ukraine and Belarus). The Visigoths (Low Latin Visigothi, “the good Goths” or “the noble Goths”) were the western Goths, with a domain extending from the Dnestr to the Danube.

Microsoft ® Encarta ® Encyclopedia 2005 © 1993-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Chav - Misunderstood peeps feared by the 'intelligensia'

Chav

 

Townie - Peeps who WORK for a living + DON'T get 3 months 'holiday' during the summer!

Townie

 

Skater - Wannabe BMX Riders

Skater

 

Do you think people judge teenagers by the way they look without knowing what they are really like?

NO...peeps employ namby-pamby Social Workers to spread that propoganda!...

Anyone care to do THIS homework??...

 

 

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[caro]

Well no-one could accuse you of being a stereotype MTM. I'm sure there isn't another one like you.

 

Thank you for your input.

[tiglet]

DD is doing a college project and I said I'd ask for help from you lot in canvassing opinions. She has to make a documentary on any subject she likes and has chosen the subject of stereotypes. Could as many of you as possible please answer the following.

What would you think of the following. Please give an example of what you think represents each of them?

 

 

Goth - Likes vampires, into sad music, wears black and my mum used to be one and the photos are funny!

 

 

 

Chav - They drink in the church-yard on a friday night and in the school holidays and they can't talk properly and wear gold earings (even the boys) and I don't like them because they swear.

 

 

 

Townie - Don't know

 

 

 

Skater - REALLY cool and can do tricks at the park and don't shout at you

 

 

Do you think people judge teenagers by the way they look without knowing what they are really like?

 

All help much appreciated.

 

That's from my eight year old.

[Spiceskull]

What would you think of the following. Please give an example of what you think represents each of them?

 

Goth:

Should be elevated to positions of royalty.

Example - I am an ex-Goth, they are not EMO's, and are widely misunderstood.

Chav:

Should be stood against the wall and shot.

Example - they are a bane on society, like bank managers.

Townie:

Should be stood against the wall and shot.

Example - they are a bane on society, like bank managers. Hold on, they

ARE

bank managers.

Skater:

Should be stood against the wall and shot.

Example - they are a bane on society, like bank managers.

Do you think people judge teenagers by the way they look without knowing what they are really like? If the teenagers are Goths then yes, otherwise all negative judgements are valid...

[caro]

Well I think I can safely say not all answers are what might have been expected.

[MilkTrayMan]

Apply 95% Standard Mean Deviation then caro!...

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[caro]

Well I've emailed a link to this page to my daughter and will let her decide whether CAG users are outside the range of what might be considered "normal" MTM.

[kfdh1962]

What would you think of the following. Please give an example of what you think represents each of them?

 

 

Goth

pale skin, black make up and hair, black clothes and heavy music,

 

 

Chav

more elizabeth duke bling than you can wave a stick at, trackies , burberry, and scraspped back hair innit! am i boverred!

 

 

Townie

urban dweller with a fear of wide open spaces

 

 

 

Skater

jeans with the arse at the back of the knees, slightly unkempt, laidback

 

 

Do you think people judge teenagers by the way they look without knowing what they

wrongly so, but yes

[tiglet]

Not all Goths have black hair - not telling you which one I am!

[kfdh1962]

he he... fair comment tiglet....proves the point that not all stereo types views are accurate...

 

nice picture though..

[tiglet]

We were only 14, to be fair.

[caro]

It is a nice picture Tiglet, and proves the point you shouldn't judge people by their appearances and put them into a slot. Seems Spicey isn't the only ex-Goth.

[Spiceskull]

Not all Goths have black hair - not telling you which one I am!

Oh, go on. You know you want to...

[gyzmo]

DD is doing a college project and I said I'd ask for help from you lot in canvassing opinions. She has to make a documentary on any subject she likes and has chosen the subject of stereotypes. Could as many of you as possible please answer the following.

What would you think of the following. Please give an example of what you think represents each of them?

 

 

Goth

People who dress like individuals - just like all the otehr individuals

 

 

Chav

Council estate residents under 50. Most people born after 1988

 

 

Townie

Sorry - dunno

 

 

Skater

See Goth. Need to grow up

 

 

Do you think people judge teenagers by the way they look without knowing what they are really like?

 

Yes but don't we do that all the time anyway?

 

 

Lets see how much stick I get now....

[tiglet]

Oh, go on. You know you want to...

 

You'll have to guess;)

 

To be fair, after that point my hair was blue and purple at some points ...