I had a comment stating that I had come off as too arrogant with my original post so I'll revise it and hope to not only make my arguments a bit more clear but a lot more nice as well.
I had an assignment to create a blog post discussing the biggest issue my community faced and what I would do to solve it. Many people would choose unemployment, elderly health care, the plummeting test scores, etc. But when I think about it, those really aren't so much of problems as they are issues. A problem requires immediate attention as an issue is something that takes much more than just legal action. I believe the root of the issues in my specific community of LaPorte county is ignorance.
Ignorance is being less knowledgeable about subjects than another person or just in general. I'm rather young, at only age nineteen, and from what I've experienced in my life is that people are scared of what is different and they're less than eager to learn anything from what they've been taught previously. I have black, pink, and purple hair and two lip piercings. I get odd looks everywhere I go and people have assumed that I'm a lesbian, I worship Satan, I'm a drug addict, or even that I was kicked out of my home because my parents wanted nothing to do with me. It's not just me who's had negative assumptions made about them, either. I've learned to laugh it off because I graduated high school with a Core 40 diploma, I'm in college, and have a job on the side. I also love to volunteer at the high school helping the debate team.
Those people are ignorant of what I'm really like because I'm a bit different. I'm different so their naturally instinct is to judge and make assumptions of what I'm like.
If people continue to do this we won't get anywhere because the world is a constantly changing place. One hundred years ago people loved to throw the topic of homosexuality under the rug and now you have parades each year and constant rallies fighting for gay rights. I'll add more to this later, seeing as class is letting out.
I had an assignment to create a blog post discussing the biggest issue my community faced and what I would do to solve it. Many people would choose unemployment, elderly health care, the plummeting test scores, etc. But when I think about it, those really aren't so much of problems as they are issues. A problem requires immediate attention as an issue is something that takes much more than just legal action. I believe the root of the issues in my specific community of LaPorte county is ignorance.
Ignorance is being less knowledgeable about subjects than another person or just in general. I'm rather young, at only age nineteen, and from what I've experienced in my life is that people are scared of what is different and they're less than eager to learn anything from what they've been taught previously. I have black, pink, and purple hair and two lip piercings. I get odd looks everywhere I go and people have assumed that I'm a lesbian, I worship Satan, I'm a drug addict, or even that I was kicked out of my home because my parents wanted nothing to do with me. It's not just me who's had negative assumptions made about them, either. I've learned to laugh it off because I graduated high school with a Core 40 diploma, I'm in college, and have a job on the side. I also love to volunteer at the high school helping the debate team.
Those people are ignorant of what I'm really like because I'm a bit different. I'm different so their naturally instinct is to judge and make assumptions of what I'm like.
If people continue to do this we won't get anywhere because the world is a constantly changing place. One hundred years ago people loved to throw the topic of homosexuality under the rug and now you have parades each year and constant rallies fighting for gay rights. I'll add more to this later, seeing as class is letting out.
