Monday, May 14, 2012

Don't Judge a Book by it's Cover

After watching the film with Crabtree and 30 days, I now have new outlook on the way our society views the poor.  Most of society just thinks of them as filthy and worthless, but many don't know that they are just actually trying to make a living with what they can afford to spend.  Seeing the way that Crabtree's son reacted to her was embarrassing and shameful because no one should want to be known without their mother in the picture, no matter what the income of the family may be.  Also, on 30 days, a real couple got to experience how hard it is to live off of minimum wage and they started to appreciate the little things like furniture and food. There are a lot of good people in the world who donate to charities and volunteer at food or homeless shelters, but nowadays, I think that those genuine kind of people are harder to find.  Society can judge everything about a person just by looking at them, or so they think.  If someone in society looked at Crabtree, they would see a dirty old woman wearing a burger king shirt, walking down the street.  But what society doesn't know is that she is just trying to provide for her family and even if it isn't under the best of circumstances, society never takes that into consideration, they just shout inappropriate sayings at her to ruin her already dreadful day.  I think that the way society views others will never change because just by a single glance, everyone thinks they can determine what social or income class another is in, but really, this is unrealistic.  I am going to stop judging people by what I see on the outside because after watching these films, there is no way that doing that is a proper representation of a person's personality.  I see many people daily talking about others if they look dirty of don't blend in, but people need to start realizing that others have many difficulties that lie way deeper than what you see on the outside.