Express yourself.

I was writing an essay for my English 111 class tonight, and the topic that I wrote about made me realize a few things. My assignment was to write a rebuttal against an article that dealt with political correctness in our nation, and a particular paragraph from that article stuck out to me. It dealt with how we are not supposed to criticize people on how they dress or behave in public. Yet there are always going to be people opposed to this. We, as humans in general, are becoming more tolerant of each other. Even so, there will always be a divide. People are quick to judge others based on appearance alone. Those who try to express their individuality are looked upon as different from everyone else. Just because you don't have a lot of piercings, or any at all, or your body isn't covered in tattoos, or you don't have your ears stretched doesn't mean that you're better than people who do. They are expressing their individuality through their appearance, and we shouldn't judge what kind of a person they are based on that. The workplace has become more accepting and allowing people to express themselves to an extent, yet once again there will always be that divide. I don't believe that will ever go away. That being said, we need to focus our attention on people's merits and achievements, and what kind of a person they are. We need to step away from the phrase "judging a book by it's cover."