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Why Must We Categorize??


  • Painted Warrior
    Dec 14 12:32 AM 2007
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    I hate how we so easily categorize people. whether based on the way they look, dress, talk, skin tone, where their from, or even for where they live. We can't help who we are, and why should any of us change our appearance, what we like or what we believe in just to fit the whims of another. I am who I am and I'm not changing that for anyone, so get over it. I hate people who will call a person Gothic just for wearing the color black or even for wearing black nail polish. What the hell dose that have to do with being Gothic? A color dose not make you one thing or another, it's the things you believe in. It's a state of mind, not what you look like. If I were to wear a red colored dress should I be considered a whore? Just for the fact that the color red can be associated with sexiness in dresses or at all. what's the point of living if we do not live to please ourselves? If we are to do as everyone ells pleases and lose all of who we are as an individual, well we would all be a bunch of clones in a world of nothingness. For without new ideas or new way of thought their would be no advancement in technology. Or even way to continue living at all. We may have well all become extinct... So you can go be a clone if you wish. But me, I'll be what ever I feel I want to be, for it will be in my new thoughts, my new ideas that's going to further us in this world...

  • Kazrith
    December 14, 2007
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    humans always categorize. it makes our lives simpler because we dont always have the time to go around and conclusively think about every little detail we see. this can be good and can be bad. but is only really bad when we dont allow ourselves to move past the categories and think deeper into problems

  • Weydon
    December 14, 2007
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    I never understood why people get angry about being categorized as such. They're just adjectives seeking to sum up your style with styles that are AWFULLY similar to your own.

    "What kind of hair cut would you like today?"

    "Hey, pal! DON'T label me!"


    It's bad enough when someone is trying to describe someone else to me, and then awkwardly lowers their voice to tell me what race they were. "She's like 5'7, dark hair......black........UM, and wears a lot of eye shadow...." It's a FEATURE you have. You have a skin color, you have a style, you have a hair length. The world is much more efficient if we TREAT each other equally, while acknowledging that adjectives exist.

  • NeferMaatNetjer
    January 5
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    labels

    labels come from a basic human desire to be around other people who share the same background, religion, views, interests, or even hobbies.it's easier to make friends with someone who has at least something in common with you besides the opposable thumb. if you were in a foriegn country where you didn't speak the language, you would seek out those who knew yours, at least until you knew the local language well enough to get by on your own. if you wanted to marry, you would prefer a mate that had at least some of the intersts you have, over someone who was a polar opposite. if you wanted to join a club, you would not just pick a random club to join, you would pick one that meant something to you. So, if you look like a duck, and quack like a duck, and waddle like a duck, you are probably a duck, and if you look like a goth, dress like a goth, and talk like a goth, it's safe to assume that you are a goth.

    labels only become a problem when they become a source for enmity and prejudice, and that comes from people applying flawed logic. "the guy who sold me this piece of junk was a _____, therefor all ______ are filthy crooks!" Hitler used such logic. He blamed a few jewish industrialists for Germany surrendering in WWI, and reasoned that all Jews were just as bad. That's when labels become a bad thing, when they are used by some idiots to make themselves feel superior, or to shuffle off blame that rightly belongs to them
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