Everyone in this world has some sort of bias or prejudice towards someone or something. No matter how adamantly a person may try to deny this, it’s true. Because of this bias, people get judged simply because of the way they walk, talk, act, dress, etc. No matter what you do or say, someone is always going to judge you for the most trivial of things. Humans are not perfect. We were never meant to be. But these biases have divided us.
Without even taking a second glance at someone, there are already a million opinions running through a person’s mind. And these judgments may never change, even if we take a chance to really get to know a person. As much as I don’t want to admit, I’m guilty of this too. We all are.
But we have to look past these things. Henry David Thoreau said, “It is never too late to give up our prejudices." We can be more accepting by just giving someone a chance. Stereotypes and prejudices only aid in driving people apart.
We are more than what our stereotypes and prejudices have defined us as. We are greater than the sum of our parts.
I am really liking your statement about this bias we have and that we should accept ourselves and many people. I can totally understand what you are saying because I have gone through that time before just like the rest of us. With that as you already know I have come to become a really nice person and I like it. That if we are not being stereotypical and prejudice towards each other then we can become one and unit together. So no more war or hatred towards each other.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you're saying but its a lot easier said than done. Within the first three seconds of looking at someone, we already have made judgments about them without even knowing them. That's the problem we have as human beings, we don't take the time out to get to know someone and their story before we judge them. We already put them into different categories that they most likely don't even fall in.
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