Mind blind
The bluntness of the American citizens is showing to know no limits. Their fatuity is only overcome by their stubbornness in international issues. All this shows how blind they have gone to others' points of view. Their failing to understand has become a stain in their attitude.
This is a stain that has been sprawling nowadays, reaching every one, from the kindergarten to the University, from domestic matters to international matters. People now refuse to see and accept anything else but the first (and probably poor) ideas they have absorbed. They most likely will enroot what was taught to them in their childhood and stick to it to death.
People also tend to think that trying to understand and accept ideas different from their own is a sign of weakness. The right thing to do is to guard your ideas from the arguments of the other person until he or she gives up convincing you, or even better, turn to your side. A person who changes his mind very often is conceived as weak-minded and pushover.
Those who win an argue are seen as strong-minded. The problem is that purblindness is being mistaken for strong-mindedness. The easy way to win a discussion is to refute all counterarguments, standing up for your own arguments. They don¿t even come to think over their opponent's ideas, afraid it might seem like the opponent was penetrating his or her own mental fortress.
People have got to stop thinking that an argument is a fight. That listening to other ideas is harmful. That seeing the others¿ point of view is to lose. Discussions are far too often taken to the personal side, and that is not how it is supposed to be.
I myself find it hard to stand up for one idea, since I always try to see the counterarguments and accept them as well. I came to the point of trying to defend the opposite thesis of this assignment before I made up my mind for this one. It did not kill me to see that having deeply-rooted ideas might be good. In fact, this way I got a broader view of reality, instead of blinding myself.
This is a stain that has been sprawling nowadays, reaching every one, from the kindergarten to the University, from domestic matters to international matters. People now refuse to see and accept anything else but the first (and probably poor) ideas they have absorbed. They most likely will enroot what was taught to them in their childhood and stick to it to death.
People also tend to think that trying to understand and accept ideas different from their own is a sign of weakness. The right thing to do is to guard your ideas from the arguments of the other person until he or she gives up convincing you, or even better, turn to your side. A person who changes his mind very often is conceived as weak-minded and pushover.
Those who win an argue are seen as strong-minded. The problem is that purblindness is being mistaken for strong-mindedness. The easy way to win a discussion is to refute all counterarguments, standing up for your own arguments. They don¿t even come to think over their opponent's ideas, afraid it might seem like the opponent was penetrating his or her own mental fortress.
People have got to stop thinking that an argument is a fight. That listening to other ideas is harmful. That seeing the others¿ point of view is to lose. Discussions are far too often taken to the personal side, and that is not how it is supposed to be.
I myself find it hard to stand up for one idea, since I always try to see the counterarguments and accept them as well. I came to the point of trying to defend the opposite thesis of this assignment before I made up my mind for this one. It did not kill me to see that having deeply-rooted ideas might be good. In fact, this way I got a broader view of reality, instead of blinding myself.
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