TOEFL Practice

Do you agree or disagree? "You shouldn't judge people by how they look."

People get most information through eyes. It is same in terms of communication. You never can know everything about other people because our mind is separated. However, we can know it more and more as time goes, and that will grow better relationship with other people. Of course, all the people should judge people by how their inner character, but I think it's inevitable to judge people by how they look. There are 3 reasons that will lead to this conclusion.

Firstly, we communicate with most of people in a brief way. We meet new people having only one body and limited time that we can't manage to spend enough time to communicate. Therefore, we have to rely on information from eyes, that may be superficial but mostly correct based on the experience we've built since we born. And this is why handsome/beautiful smiling people get along well. This is how animal live and how natural selection works.

Secondly, memory remains. Memory in our brain is categorized so that we can remember how that people is like, and in the process of getting information of that people, with time is limited, our information of that people is quite a few. Therefore, memory of our brain storage for that person is full of information of first meeting. For example, she was always smiling that she should be kind and cheerful even if she was really evil woman. However, we can't help relying on that.

Lastly, we all are animals. Animals have instinct in unconscious that tells us what the target is. For example, whether I should cooperate or not. It is not logical to feel in that way because of our brain, but under the scenes that we don't know, our brain has something it has long collected over the generations. Therefore, we as animal, act in that way.

In conclusion, because we have limited resource physically interms of time communicating with others, and this make our brain have a few information about others that make occupy the specific part of brain that is used when communicating with specific person, and we instinctively get some information about others, we inevitably judge people by how they look.