Morrie is telling Mitch that “It's funny...I felt a little ashamed, because our culture tells us we should be ashamed if we can't wipe our own behind. But then I figured, Forget what the culture says.” (116) Morrie realizes that he needs help and he isn't ashamed of it. Throughout Morrie's life he has been himself. He never cared about what other people thought or what the culture said. He had a very happy life with that.
For many cultural and minority groups, they do not enjoy these luxuries. This can very well be the case for people who suffer from Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders (GIS). In many cases, mainstream society and the media has yet to fully accept the lifestyles and choices of these individuals. Rights and values to employment, job opportunities and health care benefits are not easily accessible due to discrimination and prejudice. The lack of accessibility of these resources for these individual shows how American society contradicts what they claim they value so much.
This is shown when he admits early in the story that he does not judge Gatsby because Gatsby had an "extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness". This made Nick more loyal to Gatsby than other characters in the book. Nick overlooks the wrongness of Gatsby's bootlegging, his known associations with speakeasies, and with the character Meyer Wolfsheim, a man rumored to have fixed the World Series in 1919. Yet he is disapproving of Jordan Baker for cheating in a golf game. He also says that he is prepared to forgive this sort of behavior in a woman, "It made no difference to me.
The theme of the story is the growth of the boy and the dissatisfaction when he found his belief was so weak in the darkness of the real world. The author uses many negative words to describe the place he lived. In “North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free, An uninhabited house of two stores stood at the blind end.” (1) The word “blind end” implies there is no way out and there is no place for the boy to escape for his belief. Also, in the third paragraph, the word “somber” (10), “the dark muddy lanes behind the houses” (12-13), and “the dark dripping gardens”(14) show the image of the dirty place to the readers. He also shows his attitude at the beginning of the story, “I imagined that I bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes.” (29) He trusts his belief and believes it will keep his soul far away from the dirt.
• As a father Atticus can be said to be a great father. He is generally loving and caring towards his children, he guides them through right and wrong always, and he tries to make them morally strong as he is. He shows intelligent parenting, when Scout starts swearing, Atticus doesn’t punish her or tell her not to, knowing that this would just make her swear more, instead he leaves her to keep swearing until she herself realizes it’s the wrong thing to do. He does not do it because he is careless or it does not matter to him what his children do, he
Ethical relativism is supported due to the narrowing view of ethnocentrism, which is causing great “prejudice tantamount to racism and sexism” (Pojman, 25). Society is moving away from their ethnocentric view of the world, which allows for a more diverse cultural of right and wrong. Moral positions are based on what their society sees as ideal norms. The first of two theses is cultural relativism, “what is considered morally right and wrong varies from society to society”(Pojman, 26), meaning that there is no universal morals, which are accepted by all societies. In some cultures it might be morally acceptable to value slavery, genocide, or female circumcision.
As an individualistic person, he cares about himself, and his immediate family. This ironically causes a conflict of interest within him. He has stayed with his wife and chosen his career path (a police officer) because it is best for his family, and, having been abandoned by his own father, he explains to his new love Kathy “I swore I’d never do that to my own…” (Dubus 140) Staying together for the children used to be a very common excuse given regarding
However, those who do not are condemned by both the society and its people. This idea is reflected in Albert Camus’s The Outsider through Meursault’s encounters. Uniformity in society is a scam. Society is anything but a microcosm of friendship and intimacy. The protagonist of The Outsider, Meursault, is estranged because he does not fit into the social norm.
The implications on the individual that can develop from this prejudice are feelings of low self-esteem, lack of self-confidence as well as a lack of employment opportunities. This can then create implications on the wider society such as welfare state costs, higher crime rates and even costs to healthcare. The concept of discrimination ‘means simply treating unfairly’ (Marshall, G 1998). Discrimination is treating an individual or group of people unfairly on the grounds of their protected characteristic e.g. age, sex, race etc.
Women aren’t as smart as a man; Black people as law breakers; Gays as promiscuous; and garbage collector as uneducated. These are just a few of a wide number of common stereotypes that we usually use to generalize people. Stereotypes are the perception we make about a person or group of people based on our experience, the media and influence of friends and family. I absolutely believe that stereotypes are harmful because it has negative impact on behaviour, causes discrimination and leads to prejudice. Stereotype has negative impact on behaviour.