We do judge books by their covers, and therefore, short change many people and things.
1. A few years back I had a student who for her community service/praxis project went to pick apples for one of the local soup kitchens. She was taken aback, when the director told the pickers to choose apples that they would want to eat. What, my student thought, they should be grateful for any apple. But she learned the lesson that just because someone is poor, does not translate into treating them with less respect and dignity.
On Barbie & Beautiful Veggies:http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/18-9
2. And then there is the age-ism and lookism that once ruled the reality tv programs (and the music business) and now has rocked reality TV and its veiwers to their very core. Susan Boyle who is the average older woman who gets dis-regarded, dis-respected in society, until she opens her mouth to sing.
Just in case you are one of the very few who have not seen/heard:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/14/susan-boyle-britains-sing_n_186787.html
Letty-Cottin Pogrebin's comment on Boyle, and age-ism:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/letty-cottin-pogrebin/why-susan-boyle-makes-usb_187790.html
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