The social/errors and biases affect me daily in the area I live in. To write it down is a
shell shock, because I have learned to live with it. “One of us/one of them”, I
experience just going into the supermarket. I have lived in this neighborhood for two
years now and still when people see me its like I am a foreign object. I guess I should
say I live in a predominately white town, in my defense when I moved to
Pennsylvania I did not know, to be truthful if I did I would have moved to a more
diverse area. So, when I see one of us and one of them is hits home for me. Anytime
I go outside they want to make me feel as if I’m not one of them, but what they don’t
know is that it doesn’t bother me, people fear what they do not know or understand,
and I am okay with that. I was raised to always keep my head high and not worry
about what others think so to say one of us, I accept everyone as a person, not your
race, color, or ethnicity, and that what makes me from them.
Today, we are facing troubling times and I would say COVID-19 has created so many
different arguments. I have seen the argument made that 5G towers are the cause of
the virus, but of course there is no evidence to back those arguments, only theories.
Usually, when I hear an argument that I have no clue if it is right or wrong, I do
research. I may accept with you are saying because I do not know much about to
argue back, but once I have concluded my research I then will proceed to either or
agree or argue. In doing research, I have found the towers do not have anything to
do with the virus as of right now with the information provided, but everyone is
entitled to their opinion and beliefs.
I found self-serving biases interesting, the tendency to exaggerate our strengths and
minimize our weaknesses, I have realized your weaknesses can be a part of your
strengths, if you take the time to understand your weakness and allow yourself to
develop those skills, then they wouldn’t be weaknesses at all.
