Reflection #11

The article on Belief’s, Values & Attitudes caught me attention. Beliefs, values and attitudes play a significant part in our lives and in how we interpret things. To me a belief is anything you think is real. Throughout our lives we usually belief everything our parents thought us. For instance, I mother would always tell me to be careful to not sweep me feet while sweeping the floor because I would never get married. As I have mentioned before parents take part in an important part of our lives. In on journey through life we sometimes come across things that we are not sure whether or not we should believe them. This is because we believe the things by authority which is our parents. If we are faced with something that our parents told us verses something a teacher might tell us we are put in a state of confusion. Therefore, we should try to find evidence of what is really true .In the same token we have our attitude which is another word for conviction. It is the mental image we place that gives us a feeling to act. A good example of conviction is when Kanye West just based on his views and attitude made him act in a discriminative way.
In addition we have our values in which are similar to our beliefs. Values help us classify the good from the bad and the right from wrong. A value I always keep in mind when eating at my parent’s house is to never place my elbows on the table. To my parents that is disrespectful and in our house hold this is one of the values we follow. However, all these beliefs, values and attitudes we confidence in can all lead to us become prejudice people. Prejudice is when a person has negative views about another person’s cultural, race, gender & etc. In which can cause a person to act in different forms toward these multicultural people. For instance, a person can have a prejudice behavior such as discrimination towards a colored person. Discrimination can lead to the person avoiding or physically abusing the other person, just by the color of there skin. I personality think that this is not the way we should treat each other. People need to start trying to become open to new things and ideas. They need to stop being closed and believing everything there parents have taught them. We are in the 21st century were supposedly everyone is equal but till this day we are not. There are still people harming others and we have not yet become a union nation that we should be.