We have all heard it before; «you can not judge a book by its cover». This is an idea heavily advocated in our modern societies; it is propagated alongside the idea that it is impossible to have any form of pre-knowledge about anyone based on what their names are, where they come from et cetera, and also that if you do have such «prejudice» you are a bad person.
Sorry to say so, but this is simply wrong! There is so much you can know about a person based solely on how they look, how they dress, what their profession is, where they come from, what their name is et cetera.
First of all you can perfectly well see intelligence in a person’s face, i. e. in his eyes, or of course the lack of intelligence.
Obviously intelligent persons;
Obviously unintelligent persons;
With some cultural insight you can also e. g. tell that anyone around age 30-50 in Norway with the name Jonny, Kenneth, Ronny, Tommy, Roy, Robert or Roger is very, very likely to be untrustworthy, unreliable, unintelligent and uneducated. Yes! Amazingly you can tell all of this just by looking at their first names! Why? Because in Norway only the most low-brow wanna-be-hippie parents gave their children such names 30 to 40 years ago, and they also believed in a «free upbringing», meaning their children received very little upbringing at all and ended up as of course no smarter than their parents, but also extremely badly-behaved. Now, there are of course exceptions to this rule, but in 9 out of 10 cases you will be wise not to e. g. give a loan to a person with such a forename; according to (unofficial and very illegal) bank statistics about 90% of all debt collection cases in Norway are against individuals with such forenames. So I guess you can tell a lot from a person’s first name alone after all.
Here in France I have learnt that any female with a name ending with an -a is working class, and just about anyone with kids called «Enzo» or «Noah» or «Matteo» or the like are working class too. Any French nobleman would be more likely to willingly crawl naked through the streets of his hometown with a carrot sticking out of his behind than call his son «Enzo», so to speak. There is of course nothing wrong with this name, but at least in France they do tell a lot about your social class.
With some cultural knowledge there is really a lot you can tell about a person from his forename alone…
When it comes to clothing we already know, so I will not say much about that. I will however say something; a few years ago I lived near Aurillac, and a few weeks every year they had some left-wing extremist open theatre thing there, flooding the town with left-wing losers (who used the public parks as open toilets) dressed in what I named «the left-wing extremist uniform»; they all had dread-locks, they all had hippie-like clothing, they all had sandals and they all drove large and old (and extremely polluting) mini-vans. When out driving with my oldest daughter and her friend I kept telling them that «the driver of that mini-van to our front is for sure a left-wing extremist», whenever I saw such a car, and they naturally protested and thought I was soooo biased, until we drove up alongside the car and saw the «people» inside… I was not mistaken a single time, and the snotty teenage girls in the back seat learnt a lesson in «prejudice».
Obviously a narrow-minded, biased and intolerant racist;
Yes, we arrive at the bias based on «where you come from» subject, and yes indeed; there is just so much you can tell about a person based solely on where he comes from racially, nationally, regionally, culturally, socially and even economically. And I must say; of course you can!
An example; I can with pretty high accuracy spot a Norwegian in a crowd in any busy London street, simply by the way the Norwegian walks. He is used to having plenty of space so he walks as if he still has, even though he doesn’t, whilst all the «natives» (all 40% of the people living there….) do the opposite, and do their best to become small, so that they can all fit on that narrow side-walk.
Sorry, but bias is not «prejudice». Bias is rather accurate pre-knowledge. You very much can judge a book by its cover! Sure, there are always exceptions to the rule, but by and large you can tell a lot about a person based on his looks alone. You can tell a lot about a person based on his name alone. You can tell a lot about a person based on his social class alone. You can tell a lot about a person based on his nationality alone. You can tell a lot about a person based on his race alone. You can tell a lot about a person based on his eyes alone.
If you want any real world and practical effect of this blog in your life please start to trust your gut feeling when you meet others; their looks can deceive you, but most of the time they don’t – and you will be better off trusting your gut feelings most of the time.
My gut feeling tells me that guys who look like this are not to be trusted and are up to no good;
