By María Alejandra Rodríguez Vargas (undergraduate Tourism
and Hotel Management student. Level 6 English)
Have you ever seen someone covered with tattoos or someone
with a weird hairstyle or clothing and just walked past them without having a
million thoughts inside your head, wondering why they decided to look that way?
I’m pretty sure that we have all done this at some point, and some of us even
keep on doing it.
The question is “Why?” Why do we all get shocked and
surprised by them? Well, the answer is not that hard to guess. It’s because we
are not used to it. We are not used to seeing someone breaking the mold, and
being different from what we know. Unfortunately, this is one of the biggest
problems in society.
It is well-known that to be accepted by society, people need
to follow certain “rules”, which define the ways that we should behave in order
to be accepted. The issue is that not everyone sticks to the rules. Some people
decide that it’s better to stay true to how they are instead of trying to fit
in. The problem starts when society realises that these people are not like the
rest, that they don’t follow the established patterns, and when this happens,
society just pushes them away and alienates them.
This attitude towards people who look different is what
causes trouble and discrimination, because not everyone is open to new things.
Not everyone understands that being different doesn’t mean that it’s bad; it’s
just different, and until we understand that, we’ll keep on being stuck in this
judgmental society.
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