LABELS

Definition:
Labels are classifying phrases or names applied to persons, especially the ones that are
inaccurate or inspired by bullying and hatred. They are usually popularly known, if not
exercised by a person or group acting as influence to the majority. Labels are often influential
to people with negative perception to individuals or groups that are lower than their level or
class especially the ones deviant to socially or universally accepted behaviors and mentality,
disabled or physically abnormal, or that they degrade either intentionally or naturally with
reasons and purposes constructed by themselves or by another person.
Types of labels:
There are several different types of labels, they may be informal or formal. From the lowest
level of a society to the highest, the presence of executing labels through influence is
inevitable. As long as hatred and the unwavering unawareness about division is within a mans
perception of his surroundings, he is vulnerable to influence.
Racism

Racism is an act of degrading or scrutinizing a person or a group of similar

identities as an entity that should be known as the much-lower type of a class,
the different and not deserving respect, or a threat to universally or socially
accepted behaviors and notions. Popularly, it is more about the domination of
one side because of skin color and the over-attachment to ones culture and
hatred towards others.

Examples are:

Thug, Hooligan, Bugger, Ghetto, Black, Monkeys, Barbarian and etc.

Sexism (also, Heterosexism and Cissexism)

An act of negatively prejudice and bias approach to a person because of

his/her general gender or any other sexual orientation. Meanwhile one gender
is being presented as the much greater one than the other.

Examples are:

Ho, slut, bitch, whore, hooker, womanizer, philanderer, player, slut,

man whore, sleaze, creep, bastard, asshole, douchebag, dick, fag, rapist,
pervert, deadbeat, pussy, scumbag, wanker, prick caveman, gorilla, ponce,
pansy, etc.

Sanism

A form of oppression to a person because of his or her mental condition or

limit, a discrimination to people with mental illness or low level of mentality.
Especially when it affects their way of behaving.
 Examples are:

Psycho, nutter, retard, cabbage, imbecile, madwoman, madman,

lunatic etc.

Classism

A type of discrimination that judges people according to their lifestyle, state of

quality or economic level or stage; an oppression about judging a person based
on how wealthy or how poor he or she is.

Examples are:

Broke, strapped, gutter whore, bling-bling, sugar daddy, rich kid, dirt
eater, loser, president and etc.

And other types of labels.

Cause and effect:

Labeling happens if a person feels comfortable within a group that share the same
similarities, which often keeps him or her feel safe than with other groups. Therefore he
tends to be more attached to the group and underestimate other people because of their
differences. Especially in terms of origins, political scientists call it Ethnocentrism, in where a
person emphasizes and glorifies his culture or original ethnicity and degrades other cultures.
Other than that, a person tends to degrade by crafting a nickname for a person or a thing due
to hatred, bullying, satire, racism, sexism, all the types and reasons. At the same time,
certain people tend create names for people with good qualities or backgrounds either to give
emphasis on how this particular kind of people is better than the others, or for whatever
reason that may convey different purposes.
The effect of labels to people may vary, there are labels to make a particular class,
type or kind of people greater and above the others or for satirical purposes and there are
labels to intensely degrade, oppress and discriminate a person, type or class. If people are
labeled with a word or phrase that emphasizes their current state, class, identity or
personality, they will either react to it aptly, humorously or negatively depending on the
purpose of the label. However, there are certain people who tend to adapt or change their
personality or behavior after hearing the label(s) given or referred to him. French
sociologist mile Durkheim calls it the Labeling Theory in where it shows how persons are
labeled according to their environment or state of quality and those persons seemingly evolve
to live by those labels. For example, a man is a part of a very wealthy corporation and is
labeled as Mafia, he may think and try to be the Mafia everyone thinks he is despite
being originally not, and his business actually focuses on private civil and industrial
innovations.