Coming to an end of our wonderful project, I would like to share some thoughts and conclusions I came up with as a result of it.
I strongly believe the project is very much relevant and influential for the present day. It certainly provides food for thought as it is stressing out one of the biggest problems of modernity - increased attention to appearance.
The influence of social media and the amount of faces we see on a daily basis, both online and in real life, makes us become more judgmental towards the way people look.
Even though not many people are willing to admit that they judge others by their looks, it is still rather hypocritical.
Subconsciously, the first thing we notice about people is the way they look, especially if there is no direct communication involved. When passing by a stranger in the crowd, we notice faces, not the character or the inner world of the person. Various studies show that it takes less than a second for our brain to determine whether a person is attractive or not, which means that it is a common fallacy that appearance does not matter and is not payed attention to.
As much as I like to think that I am the type of person who does not care about physical characteristics of other people, our project proved me wrong.
During the interviews we conducted in the city center, I realized that I do make assumptions about people based on the way they look. Before approaching someone, I speculated about how friendly people looked. At first I only approached people I thought were willing to talk. With this in mind, it goes without saying that most of my assumptions were wrong and some people were not very happy to help us with our task.
My outlook changed completely, when I came up to a girl who I thought would tell me to walk the other way. I assumed that just by looking at her, however, when I started speaking to her, she turned out to be one of the loveliest people I were to meet that day.
In conclusion, I would like to say that the project helped me alternate my thinking. It made me analyse and understand the way my brain works and notice how wrong it is to focus on physical characteristics of people. I can certainly say that I became less judgmental and I hope that other people will feel the same way I did and maybe start focusing on what is more important than looks as a result of our group work.
I strongly believe the project is very much relevant and influential for the present day. It certainly provides food for thought as it is stressing out one of the biggest problems of modernity - increased attention to appearance.
The influence of social media and the amount of faces we see on a daily basis, both online and in real life, makes us become more judgmental towards the way people look.
Even though not many people are willing to admit that they judge others by their looks, it is still rather hypocritical.
Subconsciously, the first thing we notice about people is the way they look, especially if there is no direct communication involved. When passing by a stranger in the crowd, we notice faces, not the character or the inner world of the person. Various studies show that it takes less than a second for our brain to determine whether a person is attractive or not, which means that it is a common fallacy that appearance does not matter and is not payed attention to.
As much as I like to think that I am the type of person who does not care about physical characteristics of other people, our project proved me wrong.
During the interviews we conducted in the city center, I realized that I do make assumptions about people based on the way they look. Before approaching someone, I speculated about how friendly people looked. At first I only approached people I thought were willing to talk. With this in mind, it goes without saying that most of my assumptions were wrong and some people were not very happy to help us with our task.
My outlook changed completely, when I came up to a girl who I thought would tell me to walk the other way. I assumed that just by looking at her, however, when I started speaking to her, she turned out to be one of the loveliest people I were to meet that day.
In conclusion, I would like to say that the project helped me alternate my thinking. It made me analyse and understand the way my brain works and notice how wrong it is to focus on physical characteristics of people. I can certainly say that I became less judgmental and I hope that other people will feel the same way I did and maybe start focusing on what is more important than looks as a result of our group work.
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