My Beliefs On Conditioning

During Last week in class we've recently discussed only two steps of the cycle of  Prejudice, the first step of which is called "Conditioning." We've have been shown videos, clips rather, from the movies "Little Mermaid" and "Jungle Book." There are some what I'd like to say as subliminal messages in both of these clips as the class as a whole has pointed out together. In Jungle Book, there was the the monkey who was telling the child that I want to be just like him in every which way possible. To me what this is saying to me is that if you believe that if someone is better than you, you will automatically try and change yourself into a different image than what you are. This brings me to the messages I got from watching the clips from little mermaid, where the octopus lady was saying that people who are obese, skinny, or ugly are among the "desperate" people. However, if you weren't any of those you would automatically get what you'd like or rather get somewhere further in life because you have an advantage. Given the phrase that Mr. Cassidy gave us for conditioning "Essentially brainwashing" I believe that this conditioning is why we have certain Thoughts/Expectations for people, such as Mr. Cassidy said "Certain terms are for a select group of people." However, contrary to this belief some things don't make sense to me. For example, I know how that there has been proof of what socialization has to do with people's identities. In other words if we are shaped on how society sees us, as a product of our environment, or even a product of our religion, etc. then how does these subliminal messages, as I see, effect us as our main source of conditioning concerning other people. Like how when Mr. Cassidy gave us the term "President" most of us said male, and how he said "Nurse" most of us without hesitation said a female. In conclusion, I believe that could be a result of what we've been watching and hearing and what our society's have been shaping us into, which is why we think about people the way that we do, how we've been conditioned.