Let me start by saying that David Sibley uses many rhetorical strategies throughout his essay. I would find myself struggling with some of the text but while I was breaking down each paragraph into its rhetorical strategies and my justification as to why I thought he was using it. I found that the most distinguished rhetorical strategies was symbolism. At first Sibley describes the negative effects of stereotypes by having us visualize rats (they come from the sewers and spread disease). These nasty creatures are used to symbolize the different minority groups, like Jews or Gypsies, thus giving us the feeling this community of people are dirty and disorderly. Another powerful use of symbolism used by Sibley is how the color can be represented