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Chapters 4-6 Activity 2- Journal

Task: Choose one of the following questions to respond to in a journal form. This is informal writing, and your response should be 6-8 sentences. Please type the question you are responding to above your response. 1).  Mocking a Difference Why do people tend to make fun of those who are in some way different? Do you believe the tendency is stronger in children or adults? Suggest ways to combat this tendency.

"Different does not necessarily mean deficient," so then, why do people make fun of people who are different? People have tendencies to become jealous when he or she does not have something another person may have so they start looking to find something different or weird about them to make their own self feel better. This is extremely mean, but truth is, we ALL do it sometimes. Everyone is insecure at times and to deal with it, people be mean to make their self feel better.

Do you believe the tendency is stronger in children or adults? I believe the tendency is stronger in children because as children, we are very immature. If we do not have what the next person has, we get jealous, thus becoming mean.

To combat this tendency, I suggest looking into one self and thinking about positive qualities he or she contains. Everyone is different of course, so each one of us has something that the next person does not have. Here is an example: One person may be academically smart and another might be average. One of them has academics as their strengths while the other might have another strength such as singing or photography that the smart academic student does not have. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses and all you have to do is work hard on the weaknesses and embrace the strengths.