Beliefs and Attitudes

Beliefs and attitude

After reading these passages I could not chose just one part to write about because I believe a person’s beliefs definitely dictate their attitude towards everything. Therefore you can’t pick one without choosing the other, I believe they work great together because one definitely influence the other tremendously, rather it’s for good or bad you cannot have one without mentioning the other.
Beliefs are usually form by the persons’ societal views and majority of the time are mostly influenced by their parents and elders of a society. Majority of beliefs people all around the world share would be religious beliefs, everyone that I’ve come across share some religious beliefs, rather it’s Christianity or Islam and many other religions, the other beliefs are political views, rather it’s a democratic or communist. The thing they share in common is that they totally believe in these ideas whole heartedly, these two subjects are two subjects that can cause major arguments and even fights. People usually dismiss any other idea that is contradictory to what their beliefs are, their minds are closed to even accept or examine any other facts that will be introduced to them, this is when their attitude changes.
Attitude is the way a person reacts to an idea or any other object; the reaction can be good or bad depending on the perception of the person’s beliefs. Usually if it’s something that contradicts the values that has been thought to that individual since birth they would have an adverse reaction to any idea they would deem stupid, because their minds had been shaped by their parents since their infancy and their believe system has become ingrained in them almost becoming a part of their DNA, they tend to have a closed mind, not to mention people with closed mind usually don’t achieve high levels of education or acceptance of other cultures, because of their refusal to accept and interpret new information.
What I came away with is to keep an open mind because the world is constantly changing and with the different mode of transportation and human curiosities they world is closer than ever, we need to learn to respect each other and each other’s cultures, you never know what you will learn from someone else, sometimes we use others on our beliefs and see them as being evil or no good because they are not living upto our standards, it is unfair to do so and we need to adjust our attitudes.