Don't judge a book by it's cover...

This is a pursuasive sppech I wrote on 'Don't Judge a Book by it's Cover'

Have you ever heard the saying: ‘Don’t Judge a book by its cover’? I definitely have and I am positive most of you have heard it as well.

Today I am going to persuade you that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.

I’ll start nice and easy with the literal meaning. So basically the saying tells us just because the cover of the book is boring it doesn’t mean that the book itself is boring, for all you know it could be quite exciting. On the other hand the cover might be all sparkly, bright and eye catching, but the content of the book could be dull, lifeless and boring.

Personally this has happened to me a lot of times and I am sure that it has happened to you quite a few times right?

If we dig deep into the core of this saying we could find it also means other things…

Do you realise that people just pick up stuff off shelves in supermarkets based on the packaging without seeing the content.

A good example of this is when people don’t buy homebrand products and go for the flashier packaging instead when the content is the same and homebrand costs less.

I don’t know about you, but I have noticed that we judge people by their looks, how wrong is that? I think that it is extremely wrong and wish that it didn’t happen, because just because people look good doesn’t mean that they are the nicest person in the world, which is the same theory as don’t judge a book by its cover.

Think of your favourite singers, generally speaking their appearance and style is nice or it stands out and their voice, well it isn’t too bad but lets face it there are probably better singers out there but no one even knows that they exist, why does no one know they exist? Well maybe they aren’t very well off but it is more likely that they don’t have the looks to be famous and live in the world of glitz.

Take for example Susan Boyle, she has a great powerful voice but her appearance and style, it’s not too great, she only really became famous because of UK Idol.

So my point is, people who have a better appearance often get better advantages than others, this happens in all aspects of life not just music.

I want you just to think about what we are missing out on by not giving these people a chance.

Unfortunately this is not all we do, but we also judge whole groups of people by their appearance, this is called stereotyping.

Some common things we stereotype are that all blondes are dumb. Actually some are smart, just like everyone else.

Worse than that is racial stereotyping, just think back, how many blacks were used as slaves around 150 years ago and why? Well the reason was plainly that their skin was black.

By Valeria