Appalachian Stereotypes Essay -- Appalachia

Excuse me miss, but you surrender the cutest elflike accent, the pizza pie delivery guy said.Well, thank you, I replied.If you dont mind me asking, where be you from? I see that you arent from around this area with an accent like that.I am from a little town called Hazard, I replied reluctantly, realizing exactly where this conversation was headed.Oh, is that where the Dukes of Hazzard are from? he asks chuckling.No, that place is Hazzard, Georgia. I live in a little town in southeastern Kentucky.I bet you all have a lot of barefoot, pregnant people there dont you? he asks with a discriminating smile.Well really we don....Huh, I bet you all dont sluice have paved roads or indoor plumbing, he persisted.You know what? I dont feel very hungry anymore. Why dont you take that pizza back? I asked.Oh, miss, I was scarce joking with you.This conversation actually took place during my first semester of college. However, being quite accustomed to the questions that I am frequently aske d about the place I call home, this conversation somehow made me more upset than usual. This conversation made me realize just how blind parliamentary procedure can be towards other groups in society. polar stereotypes are placed on groups for various reasons-race, sex, occupations, and geographical locations-just to name a few. The last of these four different classifications is the one that distinguishes me from most of society. Growing up in Appalachia has made me a minority (different from the rest of society), and also plagued me with more stereotypes. Everyone in society has heard the stereotypes. However, I would like to focus on the hows and whys of them. How they came to be. Why society does perceive... ...ut trying to find your place within society as a minority is even harder. When you go for a ancestry interview and see the person you are being interviewed by trill their head when they hear your accent, you know that you are in trouble. Its the education that is missing in America. We are known to be this great melting pot. save it isnt until the stereotypes that plague so many Americans come to an end, that we will truly be united as one.Works CitedAsfahani, Magdoline. Time to Look and Listen. Newsweek Dec. 1996 18.Billings, Dwight B. The Road to meagreness The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia. Booklist 36 (1999) 38.Norman, Gurney. Kinfolks The Wilgus Stories. Frankfort Gnomom Press, 1977.Waller, Altina. deuce Words in the Tennessee Mountains Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes. Journal of Social History 32 (1999) 963.