Monday 5 November 2007

How People Categorize Themselves- Pt 1

it is interesting to see how people rank, or priortize, their characteristics, both observable and not. One of my little theories is that you can tell a lot about a person if you can figure out how they categorize themselves-- this is especially easy b/c in the U.S. we are taught to put everyone into categories. It is also interesting to see how people rank themselves and why versus how society ranks them.

Take, for example, Angelina-- she is a woman with 2 kids. She is a pediatrician who was born in California to Mexican parents. She attends church, votes democrat, is bilingual has a light brown complexion. She is recently separated from her husband of 8 years. She is a Golden State Warriors fan whose favorite food is bread pudding.

So how do you think Angelina ranks her characteristics??

How would you rank them??

I will come back to this one soon.

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