▶ Your Answer : Living our lives, we encounter with various kinds of people with different personalities. And we all have our own ways to judge people, some people argue that best way to judge people is by their appearance, given that their kind shows off on their faces and the way they dress. However, I find it highly unrealistic and unreasonable due to the fact that it's easy to hide their personality and everybody has different way of expressing oneself. To begin with, what shows off on people's faces and the way they dress can be merely deceiving or done through a number of repeated trial. From the very moment of our lives, we find ourselves in the situation where we feel temped to act out or try to appear different from how we actually are. Little children can fake crying because he/she wants to make their moms buy what they want. High school children can make sick face for that can let him take a rest either at home or at school. Even adults can fake certain action on account of some advantages. Through those actions, we gradually learn how to deceive others and some become impossible to tell whether what appears is what he/she really mean. A lot of times, we find the first judgment on people very different from how those turn out to be at the end. And sometimes those misjudgment can bring about serious consequences to our lives. For instance, five years back, I met a person who offered me to do the small business with him, the way he presented the business was very well laid out and he looked very professional, I ended up signing on the contract that I poured in all the money I had made up until that time. It took me six months to find out that he was nothing but a con man and I lost all the money. Considering judging one based on sheer look has too much risky factors involved, it's obvious relying on it is not a smart move. On top of that, everyone has their own way of acting and expressing his/herself. People have different back ground and culture, thus it is expected that, unless we understand those in great depth, it is almost impossible to figure out what we think they are is what they truly are. For example, in Korean culture, it is considered rude to have eye contact with someone older, on the other hand, people from U.S.A might consider same action very rude, given that they think that action is lack of respect or deceiving. Without understanding Korean culture, he/she might consider that person very disrespectful or has something to hide. However, even if he takes him wrong at first, with more time spent with that person, he will gradually find his true personality at the end. Thus his range of friends can be wider than if he took wrong idea of him at first and left it that way. To conclude, while we can not say it is perfectly useless to judge people based on look, because it can narrow our range of friendship unwillingly and put our lives in jeopardy. I believe we should be careful when it comes to judgment of people. |