Thursday, September 27, 2012

First Impressions: True or False?


When you look  at this picture, what do you see?
  • A freaking  lazy black guy living in a ghetto ?
  • Someone smoking Ganja on the corner?
  • A highschool drop-out trouble-makers?

Now, Look at this picture:



            When you see me with my wife and son, you that I am husband, father - a part of a family. 

You saw two picutres, both of me, but each picture brought up a different set of judments. Isn't it  amazing how perception works ? Perception is a process of making sense of everything. It is also the way you describe ,judge or experience someone or some thing, depending on your life experience and your culture
People make judments of you as soon as they look at you, just as someone might have done when looking at my pictures.

Viewers perceptions of me changed because seeing me with a familly brings up different sets of assessments. But perception is also affected by physical appearance. For many black women, perception is shaped by their hair.

Listen to this Video " I am not my Hair"

Does the way someone makes his/her hair make him/her a better person ? 
Does the way someone dress  change his/her personality?
I don't think  so,  Your Identity  shape by others perception  but yourself never change.
You are  who  you  are.
 


FIRST IMPRESSIONS > > >

                               

1 comment:

  1. okay Mr. Wilnor why didn't you mention your daughter???!!!..i mean shes in the picture...good post and yes we all have different perceptions about everyone else, and you don't look like a lazy and ghetto man, you look like a very hard working man.

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