To have the success of your life (or in this situation, the game) be judged by something so silly like the first letter of your name is dumb. No one should have something that they are born, something that was not under their control be a deciding factor on their life experiences. I am disappointed that this happens so much in life. Because to the people who it does not personally affect, it would be hard to care. But to the people it does affect, it would be impossible not to care.
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Being Fair
On Tuesday in class, we played a card table where if the player who won got to move up to the next table, but the player who lost had to move down to the next table. However if there was a tie between the winner, it was done alphabetically. I found that I had tied two games in a row, but because my name began with an “M,” I never got to move up. I was not mad as I understood this was just a card game trying to teach us valuable lessons in life. Yet I can understand that this injustice done in a different situation would be annoy and frustrating.
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I agree that being determined by something not under control is annoying. I heard a story long ago about a woman scientist changed the first letter of her last name from Z to A so that her signature is ahead of many others' in scientific papers. However, I think instead of being frustrated by something we can't change, we should consider the areas where we do have control and do our best.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting how everyone ends up frustrated with different things in the game based on where they started or where they just came from. I personally, was focused on following the rules of card games in general, because I had played the game before, while others were focused on the small rules they thought to be true. Yet still I found myself frustrated, because as with life, no game is played exactly the same way every time. I wasn't prepared to have a different experience with the game than I had the first time, and this too, I think is a danger of going into a new culture/environment without any prior knowledge.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that this game was frustrating, but I found it frustrating because I felt I did not need a game to teach me this lesson. However, once I learned that the rules were changed at every table, it intrigued me, and made me appreciate the game much more. I did not notice the difference in rules so much because I stayed at the same table the whole time - the losing table. Perhaps this is subconsciously why I was so frustrated the whole time!
ReplyDeleteBefore we started this game I found myself becoming very nervous. I am not very good at games, never have been. I don't know if it was the way our table was playing it or if I was just showered with luck that morning, but the odds were ever in my favor. I won more than half of the rounds I played and was very surprised that I did. I think this related a lot with the privileges the different social Identities have and how sometimes we do not realize them
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