Thursday, April 8, 2010

Not For The Generalization and Rumors





  1. When we hear something about something else, is this thing true? For example, if we hared that there is an English man, and he is mean to the international people. Is that the same with the other English people? Are they all mean like him?
  2. Nowadays, there are a lot of rumors in different places around the world. Some people believe them while other did not believe it.
  3. Some people listen to these rumor and they generalize it to the all people in that place. For example, if somebody said that US people are crazy, that did not mean everybody in the US is crazy.
  4. Of course there are some people are not crazy. Also, sometimes we hear that there are one or two bad people in that country. And when people heard that, some of them think that all people in that country are bad!!
  5. This is not true. Because one or two people cannot represent 300 million or a country. In my opinion, the small group cannot represent the large group.
  6. Moreover, a lot of rumors, which represent a country, religion, culture, business… etc, are not true. There are some people represent another country, and they lie on people and say that they are from this country.
  7. For example, if there are two or three people from Mexico, they cannot represent the people who from US. But some people can believe that because they do not know that those people are from Mexico. This is just a small example.
  8. In my view, if we want to believe any rumor, we should search for strong evidences. Also, we cannot generalize something, only if it is totally true.
  9. Because people are different in this world. The best way to know something is to read about it, and to search about by ourselves.
  10. Some people create rumors to distort something they do not like it, so we should be carful before we decide to believe these rumors or not.

14 comments:

  1. I'm not really understand your opinion. But i agree some of your points. The romour is bad for society. For example, as friends , we have a really complex friendship with eachother. during this friendship, there are many people will say some romours, even that'a all fake things, but also many people believe in it. And rumour can not prove all of people, just point someone do something.

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  2. I also don't understand about your opinion. However, If your opinion were negative point of the rumor, I will agree about the opinion. Most of the end of a rumor is a made story because it is spreaded by person. Also some people likes that talk about some people who doesn't related with them. However, people can be felt bad by the rumor because most rumor is not good. So we sould be careful when we talk about something which we don't know about it.

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  3. Yes,I know what you want to say,that a good opinion, but I do not clearly know what did you write. naturalness, we can listened rumor everywhere, whoever you are cannot escape rumor. beacause other people have the power to comment you or something.even the government or the official. we always can listened the rumors from star especially the movie stars, singstars, famous athletes. In my opinion,the rumor harmful our society.

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  4. Yes, I agree to your opinion. There are many rumors in the world. We have to be careful to believe them. “Don’t believe in your opinion blindly.” On the other hand, I quite admire the people who made the rumors and many people believe in them. It is too hard for a simple person who said something and made people believe in her/him. He/she must practice a lot and make people focus on his/her opinions. Anyway, I agree with you. Before people make a decision, they have to get a lot of evidences to support their opinions.

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  6. I agree with you. Nowadays, people did that for many purposes. They called rumors about someone to distort his/her fame. I think this the worst part of the rumors. Most of the time it is not true. So that person miss a lot of thing because of one rumor. I think that is not right. Then people have to make sure about the information before they believe it.

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  7. Yes, I think your are right. I think people should not easily trust some rumors. rumors are not the truth. also, I think people should not always say rumors. It will heart people's fellings.

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  8. You are right. The article mention two titles which are believe I rumors, and generalize for all people who have that nationality or area. I believe rumors are bad thing, but also it is good thing which is means people sometime don't know about X country or X person, and when they hear some people talk about it then they start to search and read about it. Anyhow, some rumors are right but people can't make it generalize for each single one. Because people effect in many ways and one of these ways is the tradition and environment in a country which is means they are common in some behaviors. However, people can't ignore the effect of a family and friends which make people have individuals from each other.

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  9. I agree with your rumors. I think we can hear rumors everywhere. Also, there have many people who likes to talk rumors. But it is very had for someone or something. Their rumors will hurt someone's heart. So rumors is a very bad things. So if we say something, we should make sure, then we can say it.

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  10. I totally agree with you. Nowadays, many people want to make some rumors to attack others by TV or other ways. Even though there have no definet points to support, many people trust them. But for me, I will not believe those easily. There must have strong atitude or definet points. So we should notice something clearly sometimes.

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  11. sorry, i have no idea about your paper title. it is hard for me to understand it. but for the content, i have some comment words here. The rumor mostly spread negative news. Among friends, we fear that. I noticed that most quarrals among friends came from rumors. how large the population is, how terrible the consequence is. i met a lot of these things. one day i heard a news that my anther friend told my girlfriend my secret that i went to the night club with some girls. i got angry, and hit him. but in fact, the guy was not him. then i found the guy who told me the rumor before, and hit him for 5 minutes. the rumor can easily ruins your friendship.

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  12. I agree with you. It is very different.Becuse it need to base on many factors. Also base on people. They will support it or not. Also it is base on a country, it is allow or not. All your points are good.

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  13. I think you said a good opinion, because there are so many rumor in our life. People can hardly analysis which one could be real. Even among friends, we can also hear some rumor talking. sometimes people dont want to say it on purpose. But if someon says it, it may hurt people somehow. In my opinion, we cannot say weather rumor is good or not, we just should have a right attitude to rumors.

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  14. 1. When we hear something about SOMEONE else, is IT true? For example, if we HEAR that there is an English man, and he is mean to * FOREIGNERS. ARE ALL ENGLISH PEOPLE * the same * ? Are they all mean like him?
    2. Nowadays, there are a lot of rumors in different places around the world. Some people believe them while other DO not believe THEM.
    3. Some people listen to these rumorS and they generalize THEM to * all THE people in that place. For example, if somebody SAYS that THE US people are crazy, that DOES not mean everybody in the US is crazy.
    4. Of course, there are some people WHO are not crazy. Also, sometimes we hear that there IS one or two bad people in that country. And when people HEAR that, some of them think that all people in that country are bad!!
    5. This is not true. THAT IS Because one or two people cannot represent 300 million PEOPLE or a country. In my opinion, the small group cannot represent the large group.
    6. Moreover, a lot of rumors, which represent a country, religion, culture, business… etc, are not true. There are some people WHO represent THEIR countrIES, and they lie TO people and say that they are from this country.(?)
    7. For example, if there are two or three people from Mexico, they cannot represent the people * from THE US. But some people can believe that because they do not know that those people are from Mexico. This is just a small example.
    8. In my view, if we want to believe any rumor, we should search for strong EVIDENCE. Also, we cannot generalize something UNLESS it is totally true.
    9. Because people are different *. The best way to know something is to read about it, and to search FOR IT by ourselves.
    10. Some people create rumors to distort something they do not like *, so we should be carful before we decide to believe these rumors *.

    In this sense, you are the representative of UAE. Although you said that no single person can be the epitome of the country, because you are the only person from that country, we can't help associating you with that country. So if you are nice, we tend to think that UAE people are all nice. If you are bad, we tend to think UAE people are bad. We know that is not true, but because we do not have anyone else to reject that notion, we blindly think so.

    These days, people coming in from overseas commit crimes in Japan. And although the number is small, news play up these affairs. Then, we tend to think we must expatriate everyone from the country despite the fact that there are many people from that country who are innocent.

    We are full of subjective judgment, such as bias and prejudice. If we can't abolish it, the best thing to do is to think you are always representative of your country, and behave yourself so that people around you would believe that people in your country are all nice.

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