Teenville

I was watching Tyra Banks show and she had an episode titled Teenville. It was very interesting because it dealt with real life issues of teens. They picked 10 teens around the United States and there shocking opinions and stereotypes they've already formed. Tyra said that is does not matter if you're a football star or the cutest girl in school, it's tough to be a teen. It is very true, i remember being in High school and i would hang out with the hardcore music group, then went to the nerds, then i also hang out with people who were popular. The set up of this episode was the ten teens were to spend time in a fabricated community talking about race and backgrounds, and here they face with making quick decisions based on their first impressions of each other. They were to assign occupations such as garbage man, mayor, and prostitute.
As you watch the episode and the teens ask each other why do you see me as this & that. On the stage they came out with Tyra and had the chance to explain why and how they came to their decisions and to make peace with each other. One guy i forgot what the statement was but it was about religion and he was from down south area, he made a comment about the southern flag. The one girl was asking him questions about why he would say something like that. His ccomment was basically that he grew up around thinking like that so it is hard for him to think otherwise. This is very true the parents teach us to think one way but society wants us to think a different way. It was very interesting about the whole idea behind the episode, and i would suggest to watch the episode if you can.