American Cheerleader: The Icon, The Stereotype, and The Truth

A lot of people have seen her. Many people know her. But who is the American cheerleader. She is a blonde's sexy symbol. She is a drug addicted girl, with no brain, moral value is low. Maybe she is very fierce, average, beautiful, very noisy, next door girl. It is clear that cheerleaders and cheerleaders have gone through more than a century of history. By support, $ 150 billion industry (Williams 2); bold-faced college students are active (Brady 1) over 3 million participants.

In the 1950s, the formation of professional cheerleading began. The first refueling team recorded in the history of the National Football League (NFL) is Baltimore Colts. Professional cheerleaders provide a new perspective for American cheerleaders. There are two reasons for choosing a woman: visual appeal and dance ability. Because men are target marketing groups, women are chosen. In the debut of the 1972-1973 season Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders will soon be exposed with their exquisite costumes and dance movements to draw attention for the first time in the 10th Super Bowl (1976) I will. Such a professional team in the 1970s called the cheerleading team "Healthy and Sexy American Idol". By 1981, 17 national football league teams had their own cheerleaders. The only NFL cheerleading team is not New Orleans, New York, Detroit, Cleveland, Denver, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, San Diego

The truth is that there are two very different types of cheerleading. Cheerleaders of traditional side jobs to cheer other teams, competitive cheerleaders play in front of their audience, judges get their first championship. Competitive cheerleading athletes are as much as cross-country athletes and gymnasts! The cheerleading team has further developed into a hobby. "The world no longer just cheer for the support of the sideline team of other teams" (Brady): Eric Brady agrees that he wrote articles in the United States today. Cheerleaders have been widely developed over the past two decades. I have my own magazines and web forums like Fierceboard and Inside Cheerleading. Like the travel club's football team and softball team, people join all-star cheerleaders. The difference is that cheerleading hobbies are not recognized.

Pull the gang. American high school usually is not as old as a movie like a normal girl, but certainly there are some obvious signs. Together sitting on a group lunch of different people (players, otaku, cheerleaders, rocks, rich children, white garbage, children's bands, pre-school children, punk, theatrical children, gothic mood It is most common, but certainly more). There are athletes and cheerleaders more popular than other people in the yearbook. School dance and events are dominated by the same popular group. Popular high school athletes and cheerleaders and parents, popular high school players, often improving school, being praised, while feeling superior to being foolish and despised because there are others. But at all schools, factions of all schools vary widely, but undoubtedly universal.