American Culture: Heroes

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American Culture Class: Superheroes

In our American culture class we discussed superheroes and also we read a part of the book “Superheroes and Philosophy” by Jeph Loeb and Tom Morris. The authors give us examples of famous superheroes and also give us explanations about why they are superheroes.

First of all, super heroes are superheroes because they embody our biggest hopes or our biggest fears. It is not necessary that all superheroes have superpowers, they can also just have useful abilities over the human average such as intelligence. 

Everybody likes superheroes, because as Plato said, good is inherently attractive to humans, and that is the mean reason why superheroes' stories have been popular for so long.

We can learn a lot from superheroes, some superheroes teach us to don’t give up too easily such as Batman, also Daredevil reminds us that our limitations are not an impediment to reach our goals. I think all people should go back to their childhood and feel again the inspiration that they felt once for superheroes.

Stereotypes and Racism

The human race always has had prejudment and tend to prejudge every thing due to we are intelligent beings and we learn with our own experience and even with others experience, so in this way we always try to typecast people between bad or good people and often we disregard there are a lot of nuances when we talk about persons.

In the text´s case, Jhon was a racism´s victim due to people would think he was a criminal and also a dangerous person, even police patrols would stop him and would ask him for his identification when he would ran for his neighborhood. That is a case in which people judge other persons due to stereotypes.

People sould not prejudge others, and thinking their prejudgments are accurate, because many times we err in this aspect and sometimes other person can be better than us.