section of my paper, based on stereotypes

Sitting back in my desk chair while writing this paper and saying how everyone is affected by stereotypes and how I feel it is wrong makes me fell like a hypocrite because in actuality, I stereotype as well. I can recall many instances where I was stereotyping others, may it be calling someone a “prep” or “gangsta,” these are common day occurrences, not that I do it on purpose but it just happens out of instinct.
Now this instinct I talk about isn’t something I was taught consciously, but rather subconsciously. It’s not like I wanted to learn it, but it’s more along the lines as growing up with it and just using it and not realizing it. I can actually recall to this past day when my friends and I saw a group of people, consisting of parents and their teenagers walking out front of our dorm, and immediately, out of instinct, we started hooting and hollering at them things like, “Hey, look at the new alcoholics,” or “Visitors,” to “Fresh meat!” Now these may not seem that bad, well a couple may, but they just come out and we look stupid, and it was all because it was out of instinct. My friends and I actually talked about this today as to why we do this, and my friend Matt came up with this, “We do it because it was done to us.” Now, right there, that is exactly where I am coming from with “instinct,” it has happened before to us so we must pass it on. It is a never-ending chain, which is not rusting nor breaking anytime soon.