Friday, September 11, 2009

"Don't judge a book by it's cover" --English Proverb


This old English proverb originates in the American journal "American Speech" in 1944 as "You can't judge a book by its binding." What it actually means is you can’t determine someone else's worth until you get to know them. It's actually a vanity phrase, and probably the most popular one in the English language. This goes well with our racial problems we still have in our everyday life. No one likes to talk about it or even acknowledge that we still have those kinds of problems, but they are very real and really here. Some white people still look at black people as a whole, like all have the same frame of mind and put them in a stereotype but it’s not reality. Everyone has their own opinions and their own thoughts; color has nothing to do with it. That is one of the many reasons we should not judge a book by its cover.

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