Category: Unit 02

 

 

I am in China right now, and now is 10:20 in the morning. Today my parents and brother will come back to home to prepare the Spring Festival which is as the same important as the Christmas in the United States. Even I have a lot of work to do, I still will pick them up around noon that I cannot wait to see them because in my mind, family is the most important. No matter how busy I am, if my family are there, I will stop everything to stay with them.

After they come back, I will cook for them. I cook because of two reasons. The first one is that home-made food is much healthier than outside food, and it represents that I pay lots of attention on the health. There is another reason that I cook because of my interest. When I cook, I really enjoy it. That is the enjoyment. Because I enjoy doing it, I will do it better and in a great quality.

In my group member Anna Bohr’s post called “Discussion Post 1- Hunter Lewis’ A qUESTION OF Values: Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices That Shape Our Lives”, she mentions one factor from the book she read which is “Lewis briefly outlines the process in which we end up with the values and beliefs that we possess as a combination and process of observations, personal experiences, and influences from other individuals’ values and beliefs.” Besides, she agrees with the point the author states.

In the beginning of her post, she states the point from the article she read, and shows that she strongly agrees with the idea from the book that when judging something, people always cannot be completely objective because they always use some of their personal preference and own experience. Besides, she explains why she agrees with his idea, and tells people how to do to avoid this kind of not objective.

For me, I also agree the idea from the book and Ann’s idea. Because when a person grows up, lots of principle used to judge others are changed everyday because of our growing background, environment, teachers, parents and so on. What people should do is to think more, listen more, see more before we make any decision so that we will not miss something or make any mistake.

I read the article called “Personal Values”, and thought a lot because lots of ideas

in the book moved me a lot, and made me think about myself and my life in the

past.

The same as lots of children borned after the year of 1990 in China, I was over

protected, and became the center of the whole family. My grandparents and

parents treat me as “treasure” to protect me to avoid any unhappiness or

dangers happening on me which leads me to be very self-centered. I always

only care about my own emotion, and always use my own

emotion to judge others. Like the sentence in the article, “The choice of emotion

as a primary mode of forming value judgments and thus a dominant personal

value judgment in itself- means that we are predisposed to certain specific

values, as other sections of this book will show”(P14), I use my own personal

preference to ask others to follow it.

For example, I do not like the collocation of red and green, especially wearing

red and green together. When I see someone wearing red adn green, I always

think he/she lacks of the sense of fashion, even more, I think he/she is tacky.

It is a kind of using own emotion to be the value judgments. After reading the

article, and thinking about my own behaviors and thoughts, I begin to rethink.

The reflection makes me know a lot that each person has its own style such as

clothes style, thinking style, living style, and others cannot use their own

habbits to judge others’ preference and behaviors are correct or wrong. It is

something like that if you are happy, and another person is sad, you cannot

force him to become happy because of your emotion.