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We Are All Wrong

“Never judge a book by it’s cover!� is an oxymoron that many of us have heard before when dealing with criticism. It is an oxymoron that should be instilled in all human beings as we all tend to pre-judge others, especially in our North American, media inflicted society. Stereotypes – an image or classification of a group of people – are examples of pre-judgement that our society oppresses on groups of people. The only way to stop these judgements is to prove them wrong. People feel the need to prove assumptions made about them wrong to feel intrinsically satisfied, and to prove stereotypes wrong, so not only the individual can feel satisfaction, but others like them. The essays “An Invisible Woman,� by Bharati Mukherjee, “Mother Tongue,� by Amy Tan, and “Letter from Birmingham Jail� by Martin Luther King Jr. all show examples of how proving assumptions wrong left some type of satisfaction.
When one proves false accusations to be wrong, it......

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