Although Staples had the problem of not being feared, he says "I whistle tunes by Beethoven and Vivaldi. Even tough New Yorkers stooping to nightmarish destinations seem to relax" (20) . Staples changes his social identity to avoid being the typical stereotype just like Ortiz. Claude Steele proved his point by stating that they “arise from the way a society, at a given time, is organized around an identity such as race” (3). He uses the black male stereotype to assert that stereotypes are categorized and determined by our history. We are not intentionally trying to offend other people, it's simply that the media network portrays how we see others and the media gives us an idea of ​​what the stereotypes look like and how they should act. Staples and Steele had the right to do so because they needed to act on a change to survive with the