(GLO)- Perhaps each of us has sometimes participated in fierce arguments with others. In that debate, each person tried his best to defend his or her opinion, no one would accept anyone.
The reason why life is often controversial is because each person has a very clear personal opinion. Personal opinion is the way we think and evaluate an issue/person/thing… from our own perspective. Personal opinion is subjective, so it is impossible to confirm right / wrong. Depending on the communication context, we can evaluate the individual views of each person as appropriate or inappropriate. Personal views belong to thoughts and ways of thinking, so some people, from a rut of their own subjective thinking, give birth to very extreme views, even becoming prejudices.
Talking about prejudice, there are many different interpretations from the perspective of sociologists. But one thing in common is that prejudices are related to often unfavorable thoughts and views. These are subjective judgments about an individual or a group of people regarding sex, occupation, social affiliation, age, religion, race, language, nationality, physical appearance or other other personal characteristics.
According to the Vietnamese dictionary edited by Hoang Phe, "Prejudice is an existing opinion that cannot be changed". Going back in time, we can see that there are many prejudices that exist for a long time, especially in feudal society. That is the idea of respecting men and disrespecting women, class discrimination, prejudice about marriage relationships...
It is hard to accept that in the midst of the 4.0 era, there are still patriarchal men, bringing the ideology of hundreds of years ago to impose on family life. That everything in the house, from giving birth, taking care of children, taking care of parents, cooking, washing... is the work of women. While they still have to work to earn money to make ends meet. Men, outside of office hours, can comfortably go to sports, gather with friends, or even go home to lie on their feet, surf the phone, watch TV while waiting for a meal. More and more women are looking to marriage and family counseling centers for psychological help. While every day, everywhere, we can hear many beautiful things about gender equality, about feminism… But will the old stereotypes about gender that have existed for thousands of years really be erased? give up or not, is still something to talk about.
Or as it takes a long time, society has a more thorough understanding of the LGBT community - the community of people with special sexes (short for lesbian-lesbian, gay- gay, bisexual-bisexual and transgender-transgender). In the past, when seeing a child with gender problems, parents almost immediately forbade their children from contacting and interacting. In the eyes of many people, LGBT are "sick" people, many parents also feel embarrassed if they unfortunately have such a child. But then, when society developed, with many different information channels, people had different views.
On August 3, 8, the Ministry of Health issued Official Letter No. 2022/BYT-PC, which affirms that "homosexuality is not a disease and does not need treatment". Thanks to that, the prejudices against people with gender issues, perhaps, are also much less harsh.
Each person is an individual. There is an old saying "nine people ten ideas" to talk about each person's own point of view. In any society, there are people with very progressive ideas, hundreds of years ahead of their time. Besides, there are people who feel like they are always pulling back in history because of their backward and backward views. Of course, it is impossible to impose one person's thoughts on another's life because thinking is like a rut, people keep following the path they have discovered but rarely find a new direction. . There are notions that exist for a very long time and become social prejudices. Whether those prejudices can be changed or not, it all depends on the thoughts of each individual. So, don't ignore the good things that are waiting for you ahead because of conservative notions.
