Catfish

We recently watched the movie Catfish in sociology class. It is about a guy that was basically getting told lies over the internet. So he went to go searching for who he thought he was talking to and found out that it was not who he thought it would be. A catfish on the internet terms is a person who creates fake accounts and fake pictures to get someone interested in them and start relationships. So the question is if everyone has a catfish, I think personally not everyone has there own catfish. I think you can if you put your self in that type of situation. If people would stay away from randomly adding people you only know on facebook and other sites this problem would eliminate. I don't have a catfish and I don't know of anyone that does either. Some people do need there catfish in order to want to keep going in life. They probably do because they feel like they are the only people that care about them or have an interest in them, but really they more than likely will get hurt if they don't know the person beforehand.

Articles

The first article was about a basketball team that won and no one thought they would win. The person that wrote the article was very racist towards the players and had some very rude comments in the article. The writer of the article couldn't believe that the leading scorer was Korean. I can't believe any paper would publish that but it goes to show that there are a lot of stereotypes that people have about different races.


The Second article was very interesting. It was about how Jewish people used to dominate the sport of basketball. It talked about how they used basketball for a way out of the inner cities. I found it very interesting that at the time it was an advantage to be short in basketball. Jewish people dominated because most of them were short and were very fast.


Both articles point out how people can stereotype a race in sports. Sports is not the only place though people stereotype, it is everywhere. No matter how many people think they are not racist they have probably stereotyped a race of people before.