Human nature

To pursue the central idea of the previous post, the unequal approach towards visually impaired people is obviously present in our society. Many prefer to continue to believe speculations about individuals from this minority group instead of creating their own opinion through frequent exposures to them, and this, without earlier judgments. Insteed, this comportment reflects one of the aspects of human nature, where people often select a scapegoat, someone or a group that is not treated in the same way. In fact, many short story authors reveal human behaviours through figurative language. In Cathedral, written in 1983 by Raymond Carver, the prejudices of an ignorant guy towards a blind man are clearly noticeable. In this story, the man had formed his perception of his wife's friend by an accumulation of rumours from inaccurate sources. This reality is already shown as soon as the blind man arrives; the other character talked to himself and said that ¨his being blind borther (him, his) idea of blindness came from the movies (;) in the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed (and) sometimes, they were led by seeing-eye dogs (, then,) a blind man in (his) house was not someting (he) looked forward to ¨(77, The Art of the shorty story). Brief, this short story is another allusion to this problem, where the difference is not always accepted as well as it should since they are humans after all; they have the right to live and be respected. Furthermore, since 87% of the world's visually impaired live in the developing countries; the poorest and the most populated ones (estimated by World Health Organization), a large number of people may be categorized as being included in an additional minority group. As a result, when these individuals immigrate, they may certainly feel much more excluded and being under a certain control of a dominant group in terms of social status, education, employment, etc. Then, adding this further difference may seriously leads to a really worse quality of life.

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