For this year’s Design Technology class, group of 2015 – 2016, our task is to deliver a good message through mural painting. A mural painting, based on Wikipedia is “any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface” another definition by The Free Dictionary is “ A very large image, such as a painting or enlarged photograph, applied directly to a wall or ceiling.” We are supposed to create a mural painting about social awareness and choose a topic that everyone in school should be aware of, and create a painting that says a thousand words and really move people and affect them to try and change those problems and make a difference. I want to choose the topic of stereotypes, and being defined by them. In today’s modern society, the world is getting bigger and we can never meet everyone face to face and really get to know them, which is why we base our opinions of them through stereotypes. Not everybody can be as open-minded as others. We are just humans with our own biases and pet peeves and sometimes we cannot help being racially offensive. Unless you are mixture of every other race and grew up in every country. Other’s may sometimes feel higher than others and become a little condescending, but it’s human nature to stick with your own kind. I mean ever since the evolution of humans, we had tribes, and even though we were all humans, we still stuck with “our own kind”. It’s this kind of separation that causes war, conflict, and almost every other major problem out there. These stereotypes focus on our differences other than our similarities, but if we looked passed them and worked together, we can all live in a more peaceful and better world. This is why I want to do this topic so badly, because it has been something bothering me for some time now. Just because I was born a Filipino, that does not make me illiterate, just because you were born in the south of the United States, that does not make you a hillbilly,  just because you are Asian, you don’t have to live up to everyone’s expectation of you being super smart, just because you were born in the middle east, that does not make you a terrorist, just because you are African, that doesn’t mean you’re poor and starving, just because you’re Mexican, that does not you make you a drug smuggling illegal alien, just because you are French, that does not make you a walking Baggett with a mustache, just because you are attracted to the same sex, that does not mean you cannot have the same rights as a person attracted to the opposite sex, just because you are a politician, that does not make you a corrupt blood sucking vermin. NOBODY has the right to call you any of these; you decide your own faith, and not some silly stereotype, because you are a human, you have a destiny, you decide your destiny, you make it come true, because you can, not because a stereotype says you can’t.