“Indeed, we all profile in our own way. We are taught from a young age that one should never judge a book its cover. But we must; it is often all we got to see”(Wheelan 124). The writer proposed an interesting point: though people should not judge others just by their sex, race,clothing or age, everybody tends to do so. For example, the reader once was on a westbound bus. After couple stops, he was the only white guy on the bus. One African American old lady asked the writer if he was going to the Bulls game; People might say that the old lady made her assumption too hasty, she drew conclusion just by looking how did the writer dress and skin color. The amusing part is that the old lady actually got the right answer: Wheelan really was on his way to the basketball stadium. This example demonstrates that judging people by the stereotypes would not be the most accurate way to get to know a person, but sometimes it could be the only best way, since we only see limited things at once.
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