Pluralistic Ignorance

considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.” It is inevitable to meet an ignorant person around each corner that one turns. It is up to the victim to either let the ignorant person corrupt him or to let the victim become smarter. One of America’s greatest activists, Martin Luther King, believed that “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” With this in mind, “The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all”

Question: Where do our attitudes about good and bad language come from and how do they correlate with language discrimination?     Ever since the beginning of time, communication has never been considered foreign to any living creature. As a child, you automatically pick up from your surroundings even if you are unaware of it at that very moment in time, same type of concept with language. When you hear your family members, your peers, and other types of  “influential” individuals communicate, your

being an obstacle in the way of someone’s plans, or a law that is viewed as the best for society. The book should be maintained as a standard in the classroom because it discusses the topics of innocence, bystanderism, and vulnerability. Out of ignorance, in the pouring rain and lightning, The clan of boys savagely beat Simon to death. They had thought he was the mythical beast on the island. Many excuses were made, but one to point out is Piggy’s, “That's right we was on the outside, we never seen

Plato once said that, “Ignorance [is] the root and stem of all evil”. Ignorance is the cause of everything that is wrong and bad in the world since people are unable to see the truth. If people start breaking free from ignorance, mankind will become happier and more transparent. In the short story, “Allegory of The Cave” by Plato and The Matrix by the Wachowskis, they portray the idea that in order to gain enlightenment, one must break free from ignorance; which opens himself to knowledge; this

In the allegory of the cave Plato tries to show us two scenarios where the prisoners experience emotional and intellectual revelations throughout their lives. Plato’s theory was that the ones who truly understand knowledge should guide the ignorant people out of their unenlightened states of being and into true knowledge. The cave symbolizes the people who think that knowledge come from what they see and hear in the world. It also indicates people that make assumptions about life based on the substantial

Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" has a steady demonstration of irony, much of it based on the title of the story. Ignorance is also a major issue in the work, both Ms. Freeman and Ms. Hopewell exhibit this clearly. However ironically, Hulga exhibits this with her knowledge. She takes pride in her own intellect and in her knowledge of existentialism. Hulga's existentialist ideas come crashing down because of her naïveté and lack of dependence on others. Hulga believes she is self sustained

Stimson makes a very insightful statement about people and their lives. Simon is dead and buried, as well as several of the play’s other characters, when a newly-dead young woman named Emily joins their ranks and begins to realize the triviality and ignorance of her existence, as well as that of every living person. The dead are discussing this insignificance and unawareness of the living when Simon comments with disgust on how much living persons waste their life, asserting, “To spend and waste time

Ignorance often impacts people’s point of views. Every story has a different narrative that derives from another perspective. As imperfect beings, people tend to judge from only what they have seen or heard, ignoring the other side of the story. As a result, misunderstanding, confusion, and lack of knowledge become part of their experience. For instance, in the novel 1984, George Orwell depicts a dystopian society where the government rule over the people with dictatorship. On the other hand, common

During childhood, ignorance is bliss What is it about a child that makes truth a fluid, flexible thing? When I was a kid, I was lied to. A lot. I believed anything, I was impressionable and, honestly speaking, my mind resembled Play-Doh — easily molded by whoever got their hands on it. Was I weak in character? Was I an introvert passively living a life of deceit? Maybe — but that’s irrelevant. I did this, you did this, and I’m sure that random person you saw cycling next to your car this morning

My pulchritudinous, tenth-grade girlfriend smiled with her lustrous smile when we saw each other. I remember the way she looked at me every time we hung out with each other knowing that we are more than just in a relationship we were each other's best friend. What happened next stunned me in a way that can’t be explained, she pulls out this glass heart and hands it over to me and tells me it’s mine to keep and that it’ll mean something someday. I didn’t understand at the time what the point of the