I am in love with crime investigation shows. Today, while laying around my dorm room and eating dinner I watched one of my favorites, called NCIS. They were interviewing a potential suspect. I recognized how they judge people to see if they could fit the criteria of a 'killer'. The officers were judging a male, in which they described as "dark, tall and potentially dangerous because of his affiliation with the Taliban." When they were hunting down this potential suspect, there was many men who fit his description and one of the officers was saying how difficult it was going to be to spot him. After they found him, he was tackled to the ground. They took no time in getting to know him or even checking if he was the man they were looking for. They took him for his reputation of being dangerous, and assumed that he was up to no good (which he wasn't).
We take people at face value all the time. But, why is that okay? Why isn't priority for people to get to know one another and just base their assumptions off of reputations?
This also brings up another question, why do we as people automatically assume people of a particular group act a certain way? After September 11, we classify people from the Middle East as all being bad or part of the Taliban. Which is completely untrue and unreasonable. Society groups people into what they want to see. If someone acts a certain way, they must be associated with a negative force. If society took the time to understand who people are, then our world would be a different place.
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