The World’S View Based On Appearances And Different Aspects 

Am I strong enough? Do I look good enough? What will he/she think about me? What have I done wrong? These are the questions majority of people ask themselves everyday. In our society, people are being judged by the way they appear in front of others, based on their body. Social construction is not a natural law; it's a reality made by those who are willing to follow it. The main categories of these judgments made by the society includes; race, class and gender, which can put each individual under a limited form of framework. I personally have been labeled by these operators, who differentiate skin colour, income, and how we fit into the society based on our gender. First impressions are what we consider to be very important. Imagine walking into a room full of people in suits while you are the only one wearing a T- shirt with jeans. You will feel left out and others are more likely to think of you either as an irresponsible or inconsiderable person who does not care about social status.

The reason may be that your idea of first impression is different than theirs. Maybe it’s the fact that people are not used to seeing different and are more likely to put labels on each other. Now, in today’s society, people point out the different skin colours and different backgrounds to generalize each person based on where they come from. Canada is considered a very multicultural country, filled with people from different ethnic backgrounds. I come from Iran, a middle Eastern country. I immigrated here about 6 years ago and as a 12 year old, I had an open mind with open thoughts. The first ever judgement I received was from one of my classmates who generalized all middle Easterners as “one society”. Whoever she saw with the same skin colour as mine she expected us to talk to each other and become friends, because we were considered the “same” people. She assumed we would eat the same type of foods and even asked what kind of clothes I wore back home and if they were any different as to what was known to be “normal”. The reason behind her judgments was the fact that she “assumed” and made up laws in her own head as to who a normal person is and what characteristics they should have. Now this always made me question myself as to why am I being generalized/ judged based on my skin colour? Have I done something to cause this situation? Obviously the answer is no. People's visions can be expanded and are the main issues which put us into a box with limits as to what we are supposed to know. The only thing we can do about this situation is to gain more knowledge about each other and to slowly break up these judgmental boundaries. Race is what we call reality and the inequality between each is what we call social constructivism.

On the other hand, there are people more likely to be rated as to what they are worth, money wise. For example if you search up on the internet what Beyonce’s net worth is, it will tell you $355 million dollars and if you search up what an average American’s net worth is, it will show up as $301 thousand dollars. Now the idea behind this is that when the income difference becomes larger the percentage of social constructivism goes higher. People are being judged because of their income. They are being treated differently based off of what they wear or how they dress. Just because someone doesn’t come to work everyday carrying $3000 Chanel bag doesn’t make them any different as to who they are as an individual. Class stages have become a very problematic matter in our society to the point where if someone is from a working class, they have no choice but to obey or serve the upper class. Having enough money to waste on carrying different types of bags everyday does not affect one’s intelligence. As a student, I personally have witnessed this issue. School can be a difficult time for students since they are put into small classes, where they are to compete with each other. In grade 4, I had a classmate who used the same notebook throughout every school year. She wrote her notes for every class with light pencil on each of the pages just so that she could erase them later and use the same notebook for next year. She wore the same shoes everyday, and only had few different T- shirts. Other students used to make fun of her because of it and called her useless, not knowing she was getting a %95 average in every class. It made me very upset to see someone intelligent going through such things just because of the way she dresses to school or the things she carries around. I told my teacher what this student was going through and they made her the student of the year and gave her new school supplies.

The reason behind this judgment is that the social class is what puts an anonymous line between people. Those who are considered “poor” are to be known as lazy, uneducated, and unhealthy. Others automatically label them without getting to know who they are. People have more respect for those with more money in their bank accounts and classify each other based on it. For centuries females and males have been categorized based on their gender. Men were the priority as to what comes first and is known best. Even today, in many countries women are paid less for doing the same job as men. Now does this mean that women are not as powerful as men? Or could it possibly mean that women do not deserve success even if they work as hard as men? It is very hard to answer these question without looking at different points of views in our society. There are people who believe that women are to be heard and that they do not deserve what this society has put them through. Some women are known to have two jobs, one being a mother, and the other being a worker. Some of them work in and outside of their house. They put all their effort into handling both of these jobs but are still being looked down on. On the other hand, there are people who categorize all women and drag them back to where it all started, saying women were made to obey men and to complete them. Meaning just because they are born to be female and their bodies are structured differently, they are to be treated differently. Even those who consider themselves feminists, when it comes to comparison between male and female, are not trustworthy. Have you ever heard of the phrase “Do it like a girl” or “Fight like a girl”? What is the first thing that comes to your mind considering those phrases? Is it being weak? Or is it being strong? Even though no one considers themselves “sexists”, they still do exist. “Girls are not strong enough”; throughout my entire life I have heard this sentence way too many times.

As a female, I know that there are going to be difficulties I will be facing in the future. Could be getting a job, being heard, or even being noticed. My aunt is an entrepreneur who owns her own community centre for children with mental health disabilities. She is a successful woman who followed her own path and proved to those around her that being a female means being strong and independent. She is a great example for those who told her she could never do it because she is a woman and more specifically labeled as weak. Women are still known as incapable of doing many things in today’s society. This idea of separating people based on their gender and how their body is structured is the same as forcing them into following certain guidelines made by those at a higher power. From the moment they open their eyes to this world, they are divided into two groups of masculine and feminine based on their physical appearance/ external figure. Meaning, choosing who is best at doing a certain job and who is unable to make any decisions without the higher group’s permission. The world around us is socially constructed in a way that specific notions/ ideas are only understandable to those who accept them. There are people who are going to judge us in our everyday lives but we are not just objects to be put in a box. We are individuals with different race, class and genders and very different personalities. Being from a specific area, having different amounts of money in our bank accounts, and being male/ female does not describe who we are. First impressions do not have to just include the way we look like, dress/ move our body, they can include who we are as a person and who we are representing as an individual to this society.