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31 Why Do We Label People

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Psychology today find. Regardless of how open minded we are when we are young we end up using labels to differentiate us from one another.

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To divide us from one another.

Why do we label people. This is a way we can communicate with one another allowing us to deepen our relationships and connections. Even labels that we mean with good intentions can create resentment and the desire for revenge. We are in relationship with our expectations and not with life itself.

If we as a people are to maintain the presence of justice in our society then we have to view our differences through the lens of equality rather than that of labels. To separate us from one another. Yet people arent things.

We label people by the characteristics they show all the time. This label may be a reasonable reflection of who they are right now but it also carries a belief that the behavior reflects a persons essence. Using labels to describe people ignores deeper reflections of their personhood.

It depends on how and when we use them. They are human beings first and foremost. One of those bad habits labeling others is well worth replacing.

Labels limit others and limit interaction. The people we label as black white rich poor smart and simple seem blacker whiter richer poorer smarter and simpler merely because weve labeled them so. We think of a particular person as being a bully a nerd a musician or an athlete.

What can we do we have to choose our words carefully. With that in mind we can imagine that labels make life simpler. Over the years ive begun to understand why we label things for the most part.

Its incredibly important to be mindful of the way we use labels. To label this individual as bad and some other individual as good based on their respective beliefs sexual orientation or lifestyles. Labels can be helpful and empowering if and when we apply them to ourselves and harmful when other people impose labels on us or define us by our label.

We almost have to. When we use race gender sexual preferences or religion while tagging them we are doing more harm than good. A label is an.

Labels can be tools of oppression as well as tools of resistance. Labels give people a sense of order and a way of distinguishing things. The expectation often gives us a false sense of familiarity toward something that is really new and unprecedented.

Labeling sets up an expectation of life that is often so compelling we can no longer see things as they really are. Humans have an innate desire to place labels on everything. Hence our common labeling behavior.

Why we label how to stop. When we label people with words not only are we hurting the person we are targeting but we are also contributing to societys perception good or bad of the words used. Labels substitute simplicity for detail and nuance making them just right for system 1 thinking.

Lets look at why we label and how to stoppeople skills learning. Kahneman goes on to say we people prefer to operate with system 1 whenever possible.

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