Viewpoints and Prejudices | Gia Lai Electronic Newspaper

(GLO)- Perhaps all of us have at some point participated in heated debates with others. In those debates, each person tries to defend their own opinion, no one gives in.

The reason why life often has arguments is because each person has a very clear personal point of view. Personal point of view is the way we think and evaluate a problem/person/event... from our own perspective. Personal point of view is subjective so it cannot be affirmed as right/wrong. Depending on the communication context, we can evaluate each person's personal point of view as appropriate or inappropriate. Personal point of view belongs to thinking, way of thinking, so some people, from their own subjective way of thinking, give birth to very extreme points of view, even becoming prejudices.

Speaking of prejudice, there are many different understandings from the perspective of sociologists. However, one thing in common is that prejudice is related to ways of thinking and viewpoints that are often unfavorable. These are subjective assessments of an individual or a group of people in terms of gender, occupation, social relations, age, religion, race, language, nationality, appearance or other personal characteristics.

According to the Vietnamese dictionary edited by Hoang Phe, “Prejudice is a personal opinion that is already established and difficult to change”. Going back in time, we can see that many prejudices have existed for a long time, especially in feudal society. These are the ideology of male superiority over female, class discrimination, prejudice about marital relationships…

It is hard to accept that in the 4.0 era, there are still patriarchal men who impose the ideology of hundreds of years ago on family life. That all the housework, from giving birth, taking care of children, supporting parents, cooking, washing clothes... is the job of women. While they still have to go to work to earn money to make ends meet. As for men, outside of office hours, they can freely go out to play sports, hang out with friends, or when they come home, they lie down with their feet up, scrolling through their phones, watching TV while waiting for dinner. More and more women are going to marriage and family counseling centers for psychological help. While every day, everywhere, we can hear many beautiful things about gender equality, feminism... But whether the conservative gender stereotypes that have existed for thousands of years have really been eliminated is still something that needs to be discussed a lot.

Or it took a long time for society to have a more thorough understanding of the LGBT community - the community of people with special genders (abbreviation of the words lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender). In the past, when seeing a child with gender problems, parents almost immediately forbade their children from contacting or communicating. In the eyes of many people, LGBT are "sick" people, many parents even feel ashamed if they have such a child. But then, as society developed, through many different channels of information, people had different perspectives.

On August 3, 2022, the Ministry of Health issued Official Letter No. 4132/BYT-PC, which affirmed that “homosexuality is not a disease and does not need to be treated”. Thanks to that, prejudices against people with gender issues may have become less strict.

Each person is an individual. The ancients used to say “nine people, ten opinions” to talk about each person’s own point of view. In any society, there are people with very progressive thoughts, hundreds of years ahead of their time. On the other hand, there are people who feel like they are always holding back history because of their backward and slow-moving views. Of course, one cannot impose one person’s thoughts on another person’s life because thinking is like a rut, people just keep following the rut that they have discovered and rarely find a new direction. There are concepts that have existed for a long time and become social prejudices. Whether or not those prejudices can be changed depends on each person’s individual thinking. So, don’t ignore the good things that are waiting for you ahead because of conservative concepts.

DAO AN DUYEN

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