Last year, on Twitter, a woman named Justine Sacco posted tweets about her trip to South Africa. She tweeted racist comments such as, “Weird German Dude: You’re in First Class. It’s 2014. Get some deodorant.” and “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” Because of her offensive comments, an individual responded back to Sacco with, “How did she get a PR job? Her level of racist ignorance belongs on Fox News!” Later that day, she became the number one worldwide trend on Twitter, got fired from her job, and suffered from severe humiliation. While her comments were offensive, she shouldn’t necessarily be hated by everyone. Her story is an example of our society’s tendency to harshly judge others unless they believe and act the same. This tendency in American culture was evident back in Puritan times all the way through
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As a matter of fact, America still suffers from these same flaws of the Puritan society of the 1600’s. The Puritans of the 1600’s and Americans today are certainly both judgmental. Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays the Puritan community as awfully ruthless towards Hester Prynne. For example, when Hester stood on the scaffold, several women rebuke her for being a “slutty” and impudent. They shun her because the whole town is aware that she committed adultery. Without knowing her story, they don’t pity her and believe she’s a horrendous person due to this one incident. They could have personally spoken to her and found out what kind of person she was before they criticized, but instead, Hester is labeled as a terrible person and is ostracized from the community. This kind of labeling still occurs in America right now. In the heat of the 2016 election, the President-elect Donald Trump said, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best.
As a matter of fact, America still suffers from these same flaws of the Puritan society of the 1600’s. The Puritans of the 1600’s and Americans today are certainly both judgmental. Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays the Puritan community as awfully ruthless towards Hester Prynne. For example, when Hester stood on the scaffold, several women rebuke her for being a “slutty” and impudent. They shun her because the whole town is aware that she committed adultery. Without knowing her story, they don’t pity her and believe she’s a horrendous person due to this one incident. They could have personally spoken to her and found out what kind of person she was before they criticized, but instead, Hester is labeled as a terrible person and is ostracized from the community. This kind of labeling still occurs in America right now. In the heat of the 2016 election, the President-elect Donald Trump said, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best.