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For me stereo-types are a way of making fun of a whole general group of people. A common stereo-types I hear of such as African Americans only eat KFC and their all amazing Basketball players, or Asians can’t drive or only like to eat rice. I think that this is not true because just because you’re a race doesn’t define if you are a horrible driver or can dunk every time. I have not been stereo-typed that much but I’ve been called the whitest kid ever, (like my race defines if I’m daring or not) or a nerd because I wear glasses. I don’t use stereo-type often but I have before and regret that. I think all stereo-types should not be used anymore. -Joseph B.

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Stereotype means nothing to me. A stereotype is just a thing stupid people use to describe other people they think are more stupid, like all African American people eat KFC (which isn’t even a bad thing) or Mexicans do anything type of job for money. Stereotypes are commonly used by people my age. I hear a lot of things about gay people and a lot of things about black people. I hear things about Asians, religious people, well, I really just hear a lot of crap. It’s a fact that every individual mind has its way of doing things, which in some cases, is a lot of crap, but you can’t stereotype a whole group of people because one or few people in it did something. Stereotypes don’t really make sense if you really think about it, since no one shares the exact same mind. As much as I am just your average white person, and as much as I try not to be, I have been stereotyped before. I don’t even think there is a class in stereotypes for people like me, but others have found one. I have been stereotyped for being an Atheist, for being Republican, and for being too “for my country.” I don’t walk up to people and tell them that and it’s not a topic you usually talk about, but I guess I must’ve let it slip once and some of the closer people I know stereotype me a //lot.// I do love America, but I haven’t ever thought other people thought of me that way until I met people from other countries. As much as stereotypes can seem funny, or the right thing to say in some cases, I do not use stereotypes myself. I have found extremely better ways to make other people laugh, and way better comebacks then to use a group of people in an argument with just one person. I basically do not ever really find a reason to have to use stereotypes. -Sara S.

I agree with your opinion. I don't think they should exist either, but that's not physically possible to get rid of them entirely :( These statements tell us that Mr. Frank has some sense of hope, which is sort of rare in such dreadful, unhappy times. It reveals that he’d be the optimistic one when called for, and that he isn’t trying to be a “Debby Downer”. As for the other characters, in specific, Mrs. Vaan Daan, they demonstrated (to me at least) that they are a bunch of hopeless pessimists. I don’t honestly think that hoping for something will change it, but at least it makes you feel good-spirited and like everything isn’t really that bad. Now, if //I// was somehow in that situation, I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn’t try to put any extra weight on anyone’s shoulders, only try to lift it. I’d try to boost the happiness as much as possible, and try my best to only be pessimistic when a dramatic situation calls for it like if we were discovered. I don’t think I could hide… I’d be someone who needs to be fed, who needs a place to sleep, water, etc. and I don’t think I’d be able to put that much trouble on somebody else. I’d either be trying to get those things by myself or joining the cause against the Nazis. I don’t know, but the only thing I might be able to do is provide for my family. Otherwise, count me out hiding. –Sara S.


 * When Mr. Frank says his crazy line, I says about his character many things. #1, he is nervous and is scared of being caught by the green police. #2 He is starting to go crazy after being trapped in an attic for 2 years. Some problems that would emerge from living in an attic, for me would be the lack of privacy and the no noise making rule for so many hours of the day. I would behave very different after coming out of it because I haven’t talked that much through-out the last 2 years. - Joseph B **


 * If my family spent 2 years in hiding, and I became free after many months. I would first go to the beach or on a roller coaster just for the fun of it. Then I would spend times with friends or family. If Anne was never discovered she probably would have come out of the war and her family would maybe move to a safer place. She said in the book, she would try and pursue her dream of writing so that is probably what she would do in the future. –Joseph B **

I will have to be honest, I hate the beach :P so I wouldn't go there. For fun, I may ride on a roller coaster like you did or go do something else to entertain me, but that wouldn't be what I'd do first. If I were trapped in hiding for 2 years and finally was released, the first thing I would do would be to go home, since I wouldn't have seen it in such a long time. The sense of knowing where your home is and being there is much different when you haven't been there for a while, so that'd definitely be the first thing I'd do. Then, I'd walk around the neighborhood and let my mind remember all the houses and things that were there. After my trip down memory lane was over, I'd eat my favorite food (T-Bone steak, well done) and I'd go visit all my family who wasn't with me in hiding and all my friends and settle back into my life. Now, if Anne wasn't discovered by the "Green Police", I'd assume that after the war she'd leave her hiding place and go pursue what she wanted to do, going to Paris and becoming a famous singer or writer or whatever.
 * Yeah, I totally forgot about favorite foods, I would love having crab after hiding. :) **
 * I don’t really agree with Anne, she is being joyful during a bad situation, and don’t get me wrong, that’s a good thing. But there will always be bad people and some of them never have a little good shine through them. There have been many dictators and “leaders” throughout the past that have made evil choices to another race or religion, this has occurred hundreds of times in human history. Hitler, Stalin, King-Jon UN, even the American government have had difficulties with race and religion and most of them used violence or slavery to resolve there complications. But the way humans are constructed there will certainly not be a perfect society where there remains no bad. –//Joseph B// **

You mean Kim Jong-un XD. I agree with you, I don’t really believe so either. Are people really good at heart? I don’t believe in a happiness or soul or a good right thing inside of humans. I don’t think it exists. People can do the right thing, and people can do the wrong thing. I know that much, as do most people. However, I do believe you can teach people and have them learn to do the better thing. We have so many great things in this world, and so many good-willed people who do the right thing. However, I don’t think that’s something that anyone can unearth from the heart. Some people are just too cold. Stalin is a major example. Even Hitler was doing what he thought was right, even though no matter what, it was wrong. Stalin just massacred his own innocent people. My Dad explained it to me this way, and don’t get me wrong, my dad is an extremely wise man, and knows his way of words, but he said to me, “Stalin killed everyone he didn’t like. And he didn’t like anyone.” There have been heartless slaughterers who have roamed the earth, and a ton of countries suck to live in. It really is a matter of birth. Where you’ve been born defines your entire life, whether you like it or not. If you’re born in North Korea, you’d believe America was a terrible place. They have consistent bomb drills at their schools in case we blow them up, which we haven’t ever done. We are really lucky, and I don’t even believe in luck, to have been born in America. It all depends on what you are raised to be, and you can be raised to have the kindest heart of all people, or you can have been raised to throw your heart away. //That’s// the deciding factor, not a magical goodness inside your heart. That’s the way I see it, so no, I don’t believe we’re good at //heart,// but we can be good.