Don’t let prejudices and misunderstanding blind our eyes(Jianjie.zhao)

How do we say when we get some successes and achievements? We will say we are talent, or it is my efforts. How do we say when other people win their accomplishments? We may say that’s their luck. This is a psychology behavior called ethnocentrism, so it means when we judge others values we are always subjective and not fair.

The article “long overdue”, start with author’s sight to an abandoned garden, the gardener is sitting is the garden, weeds flourished grow there. What is that weeds imply to? That is prejudices to Middle East people from Americans; it has existed there for longtime and never changes.

We all have favors or preferences on something, especially on people. Some people we like them just because we can comprehend their behavior, and we hate some because what they do is ridiculous to us. As we know, American is a country combines the people from every corner of the world, where the different cultures and the races introjected. Therefore, some conflicts and misunderstandings happen here. As we live on this would, we should not let prejudice and misunderstood blind our eyes. What we can do is to interpret others behavior by learning their culture, and not just judge them on some stereotypes. That’s the way how we approach success, and the way let us become more objective rather than subjective.