Facing the Future p.39 Post 8

Reflect on the following quotes from the chapter, what does each mean to you?

"Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun."...
"This whole game is just designed to
make us hate ourselves."

This quote is sadly how our world today is coming into. People say that in order to be beautiful you must do this or that. Like plastic surgeries half the people that get them don't need them they just want fuller lips, thinner waist or higher faces. It is a fact that everyone on the Earth is beautiful in their own way.

"Everyone judged everone else based on their appearance.People who were taller got better jobs... people killed one another over stuff like having different skin color."

This too is sadly apart of our society. Not as bad as it used to be in the 50s and 60s, but still happens today. For example, only 60 short years ago black people were not aloud half of the rights they are today, all because they have a different skin color. Tell me that is not right. Also, people profile each other from the minute they see them. If you walk into a convinence store and see a man with long unshaved beard, people kind of back up because they think he is a bad person.

"It's the only way to make people equal."

This quote means that if we make everyone equal what would people have to work for in life. There would be no point in life to try and make your life better, because it would be the same for everyone.