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05-17-2006, 01:07 PM #1Senior Member
judging people and labels
It's odd that I think often about the exact subject of a lot of these threads.
One day I began to think about the subject of wisdom, and I realized that all wisdom is, is judgments. If we didn't have judgments, we wouldn't be able to progress as humans. We wouldn't be able to make intelligent decisions without wisdom. I started to think about how this applies to culture and race. Judgments are a natural side-effect of the learning process.
That isn't to say if you've met 100 assholes and they happen to be Iranian you should think "well, Iranians are assholes." I've met a hundred white assholes, a hundred asshole Mexicans, a hundred asshole black people. Every race has their assholes. On the other hand, a lot of people feel the need to show how truly openminded they are, and claim that there is no difference between people of one color to the next. In my opinion, this is just increasing the problem - there are some inevitable, and undeniable differences from culture to culture, color to color, etc, and not being able to see and understand those differences is pure ignorance.
Now. Here's another difficult subject. How do you pick the half-true stereotypes from the ones that are complete and utter bullshit? I could name a hundred stereotypes that just aren't fucking true. Some do have some truth in them. How do you make the best judgments, and use those judgments to better yourself and your understanding of the world? A judgment won't necessarily help us - a judgment could not only make us look like a moron, but harm us in the end, serving as counterproductive (this is obvious).
I can just see forty people labelling me racist now. Har har. :thumbsup:lateralus Reviewed by lateralus on . judging people and labels this is for the people that say we cant judge and label people based on the group they belong. yes we can, let me explain. a majority of people in whatever group they belong to are dicks, its just a fact. only a small percentage of em are cool. you say not to judge them as a whole but rather individually. did you ever stop to think why people said these things about certain groups? stereotypes have some small amount of truth to them. for example lets say you meet an emo kid and he's/she's a Rating: 5
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