I was at Chili's last night, and was eating. An older couple in the booth next to ours was talking about Hillary and Obama(Well, the guy was talking, his wife was making polite agreement sounds.) And he said things that were obviously biased, and untrue, making it obvious to where his allegiances lie.
Now, first off, it's not a political thing I'm talking about. That's just an example. My point is how hard it seems for people to be unbiased. I have no idea why this is, and I am certainly not an exception. It's just interesting. People become so stubborn to change of their opinions. Things thought first are always right. At the risk of offending people, an example would be people who still don't believe in Evolution. Everyone has their beliefs, and I can respect that, but I don't understand how people can flatly deny something that is certainly fact. I can see Intelligent Design. But...just creation theory? It's been disproven, it's just not real. And stuff like that happens in everyone's mind, whether it comes down to religion and politics, or the score of a backyard baseball game. I wonder if this is somehow coded in to our survival instinct, and goes along with not liking new things, and I'm betting it's in our culture somewhere.
I dunno. I'm a quote fan, as you may see from some of my blogs. So I'll end it with this one.
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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Thanks for all of your loquacious and thoughtful blogging this semester. Sal
oh yeah and btw: Bias and ignorance is not encoded into our dna; that is the lesson of sociology. Everyone is different becuase of millions of experiences that shape them even before birth. That is what makes us who we are.
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