In order to make the judgments more fair, people can maybe only make judgments after talking to a person. The person being perceived may be having a bad day or lived a tough life. Until getting to know the person, it is only fair to keep an open mind. No matter how hard that may be, I think that a lot of interesting relationships would develop if that were the case.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Perception
I don't think it is possible to perceive others without some way judging of categorizing them. Automatically, the first thing people do when we see a person is decide whether or not we want to talk to them. We make assumptions based on the way people look and dress, how they carry themselves, and how they speak. For example, one would assume somebody with a large vocabulary is probably educated or somebody who walks with hunched soldiers has low self esteem. The thing is, if we judge a book by its cover too quickly we may end up disappointed or missing out on getting to know a great person.
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Unfortunately, I think you may be right. We always tend to judge people based on how they look, but even that can sometimes be subjective. I agree that the only way to remedy the situation is to get to know people before judging them too hastily. People are often too busy dealing with their own problems so it's a difficult thing for most people to do. However, I also think that sometimes people just don't have the compassion needed to get past any prejudices they may have.
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