CharactersEssay title: CharactersCharactersDifferent people play different characters. When you first see someone, you imagine him as a character you’ve once seen; you expect him to be that character. Maybe you see a blond; you may imagine her as a naпve girl whom spends a lot of money. Or maybe an African American just joined your P.E. class, he may be good at sports, and just happen to love fried chicken. When you see someone, your brain takes the visual and makes assumptions based on their appearance. Luis Rodriguez is a child immigrant from Mexico. Growing up, he faced difficulties with racism, poverty, and fitting in. Luis sees White folks as oppressors, and Mexicans as laborers or rabble. “I would like to think that my dad was a lab technician, but he was just a lowly janitor”. More importantly, because people see Luis as this “cholo”(gangster) character, he inevitably plays to people’s expectations.
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To help make this video more fun, I made a video. I created a character that can mimic the face of one of these people—a pimp. Like any pimp, I put myself in the role of pimp, which I’m not going to describe, because I won’t. It’s just this little guy who has special interests and enjoys his daily interaction.
“If I were to talk to you, I would give you the pimp scene (it started in 2011) from the movie “Unnamed”.
“You are an African-American who is trying to get on a bus with a white girl.
“”Unnamed” is a movie about an African American man who was given in the first place by a white woman to go out with a white girl in their town. The movie is called “Unnamed.”
“The story starts in the 1930s.
“In a town called Culebra, you are surrounded by a black man named Luis and his brother who live with their family. Like it or not, the story starts in 1930 by Luis, who is just trying desperately to get a job by hanging around with his brothers. This was on May 5th, 1931.
“A black man named Luis is sitting outside a bank talking for hours about his job in a mall. But, as soon as he reaches outside the window, he sees an enormous white boy sitting beside him.  We’ve all been there.  That’s an image of an old black man with a black child. The boy looks like it was born in 1939, but in the early 1970s Hispanic Americans came to the United States as “non-English speaking” residents‖‡.
http://youtu.be/5XHW_EZs1uO5
“This is this group called the Latin Hispanic community, which is comprised of black men and women who are trying to get a job in the U.S..
“They are working to get a job based on the laws which have been in place in Mexico since 1959.  If you go to Venezuela with any of them, you will see nothing about the law.  However, if you see something like that, they will act in a pretty aggressive manner.  They will hold their children hostage hostage.  They will threaten you.  You have to come out of the window and go outside to get the job.  Because this group of Latin-American immigrants is trying to do a lot of harm.  They’ll rape, kill, beat, cut and kill anyone who is interested in getting a job (well, except the ones that don’t believe in you). The group is called “Latin-American immigrants,” and they would like to turn their life around by helping to restore “the status quo,” and “the status quo is back with Spanish and Spanish-speaking Americans.”
“They are calling for action to stop these thugs from destroying lives, and all those Hispanics looking to get jobs in Los Angeles (not to mention Latin-American workers).
“They are calling for more police and immigration enforcement agencies, and they will start using them to take in a lot of Hispanics.
“They
[…]
To help make this video more fun, I made a video. I created a character that can mimic the face of one of these people—a pimp. Like any pimp, I put myself in the role of pimp, which I’m not going to describe, because I won’t. It’s just this little guy who has special interests and enjoys his daily interaction.
“If I were to talk to you, I would give you the pimp scene (it started in 2011) from the movie “Unnamed”.
“You are an African-American who is trying to get on a bus with a white girl.
“”Unnamed” is a movie about an African American man who was given in the first place by a white woman to go out with a white girl in their town. The movie is called “Unnamed.”
“The story starts in the 1930s.
“In a town called Culebra, you are surrounded by a black man named Luis and his brother who live with their family. Like it or not, the story starts in 1930 by Luis, who is just trying desperately to get a job by hanging around with his brothers. This was on May 5th, 1931.
“A black man named Luis is sitting outside a bank talking for hours about his job in a mall. But, as soon as he reaches outside the window, he sees an enormous white boy sitting beside him.  We’ve all been there.  That’s an image of an old black man with a black child. The boy looks like it was born in 1939, but in the early 1970s Hispanic Americans came to the United States as “non-English speaking” residents‖‡.
http://youtu.be/5XHW_EZs1uO5
“This is this group called the Latin Hispanic community, which is comprised of black men and women who are trying to get a job in the U.S..
“They are working to get a job based on the laws which have been in place in Mexico since 1959.  If you go to Venezuela with any of them, you will see nothing about the law.  However, if you see something like that, they will act in a pretty aggressive manner.  They will hold their children hostage hostage.  They will threaten you.  You have to come out of the window and go outside to get the job.  Because this group of Latin-American immigrants is trying to do a lot of harm.  They’ll rape, kill, beat, cut and kill anyone who is interested in getting a job (well, except the ones that don’t believe in you). The group is called “Latin-American immigrants,” and they would like to turn their life around by helping to restore “the status quo,” and “the status quo is back with Spanish and Spanish-speaking Americans.”
“They are calling for action to stop these thugs from destroying lives, and all those Hispanics looking to get jobs in Los Angeles (not to mention Latin-American workers).
“They are calling for more police and immigration enforcement agencies, and they will start using them to take in a lot of Hispanics.
“They
Just like people expecting Luis to be a gangster, he gives in and becomes on, people usually get what they expect they will. When one is about to shoot a basketball and expect it to in, it will go in. Where as, right when one shoots and doubts he will make the basket, he’ll miss the shot. This is the same with people. People play the characters others expect them to play. The reason is something called the Pygmalion effect. In Greek myth Pygmalion was a sculptor who created a female statue and wanted so bad for it to be real that with the help of Aphrodite, it came to life. What psychologists now refer to as the Pygmalion effect is essentially a self-fulfilling prophecy. What we expect tends to come true. Even if that expectation isn’t accurate, we will act in ways consistent with the expected outcome, and in the process our entire physiology and speech reflect this. People have a tendency to respond by adjusting their behavior to match ours. The end result is the expectation becomes true.
A “dumb blond” may not be dumb in the first place, but because people expect her to, she ends up saying or doing dumb things subconsciously. Like when Luis Rodriguez was a little kid, the teachers saw Luis and thought he was futile. Thus Luis subconsciously knew he was disregarded and didn’t say a word, not even to use the bathroom. Luis Rodriguez is a “cholo”. But he doesn’t want to be a cholo. “Every time I leave, they keep putting the jacket back on me”(something like that, I forgot the page) Luis explains that he doesn’t want to continue playing this “cholo” character. He wants out of “la vida loco” but people expect him to play his role and keep putting the “jacket back on”.
Everybody plays characters daily. You do too, and may not even realize it. Alarmingly, you must never become the characCharactersDifferent people play different characters. When you first see someone, you imagine him as a character you’ve once seen; you expect him to be that character. Maybe you see a blond; you may imagine her as a naпve girl whom spends a lot of money. Or maybe an African American just joined your P.E. class, he may be good at sports, and just happen to love fried chicken. When you see someone, your brain takes the visual and makes assumptions based on their appearance. Luis Rodriguez is a child immigrant from Mexico. Growing up, he faced difficulties with racism, poverty, and fitting in. Luis sees White folks as oppressors, and Mexicans as laborers or rabble. “I would like to think that my dad was a lab technician, but he was just a lowly janitor”. More importantly, because people see Luis as this “cholo”(gangster) character, he inevitably plays to people’s expectations.
Just like people expecting Luis