This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Necessary'. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Functional'. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Analytics'. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. What IвЂ™m trying to say is that labels are useful but hide the great nuances of life.В ItвЂ™s worth considering this the next time you talk to somebody thatвЂ™s differentВ thanВ you. Imagine how teeth-grindingly dull the world would be if we were all the same. The same thing goes for your close friends.В The laughter and joy experienced together. YourВ partner might be a doctor, but IвЂ™d argue itвЂ™s rather unlikely thatвЂ™sВ why theyвЂ™re your partner.В You probably like to spend time with them-not because theyвЂ™re a doctor, but because theyвЂ™re them. ItвЂ™s this soul that you meet, you talk to. But it turns outВ that there are oodles of kind, warm-hearted and compassionate people in the law profession.В To take another example, some of us study economics to make the world a better place, perhaps naively.В NotВ everyoneВ chose it to make a lot of cash and work in banking.Д«ehind each label is a person. This shows how littleВ information aboutВ a field of studiesВ is revealed by oneвЂ™s appearanceВ and how popular culture feeds prejudices and preconceptions.В According to Suits ,В most lawyers areВ cut-throatВ andВ brutallyВ competitive,В andВ whoseВ potentialВ career paths includeВ echelons of theВ British royal family. Instead, surpriseВ surprise, thisВ ladВ didnвЂ™t look likeВ Indiana JonesВ at all. I knewВ a guy who studied archaeology-and before I met him, I imagined a youthful-lookingВ Harrison FordВ waltzing around toВ John WilliamsвЂ™ soundtrack. But this doesnвЂ™t make humanities and social studies any less legitimate thanВ moreВ quantitative subjects.В Engineering for sure is hard, but IвЂ™d like to see some engineers write essays like the people at the philosophyВ facultyВ do.В We need bothВ (and many more!)В kinds of people inВ todayвЂ™s world. Understandably so: theyвЂ™ve been around, to varying degrees, for millennia. Some subjects, such as law and medicine have this aura of legitimacy or superiority around them. This is natural, and thatвЂ™s the hard truth вЂ“ whether we like to talk about it or not. One thing that we do is immediately categorize people based on what they study. Thankfully, weвЂ™ve moved on much since AustenвЂ™s time, but many issues remain. But social norms are not new: one look into Jane AustenвЂ™s novels, for instance, reveals much about the supposed virtues of conforming to rigid, stifling social structures. Let this be through appearances or вЂsocial normsвЂ™.

And not forgetting to mention, judging ourselves. This last factor IвЂ™d like to delve into a little bit.ДЄs humans, we busy ourselves with judging others. This can be through what we wear, how we behave, what we say, and what we study. We show this to others and to ourselves by trying to achieve more in life or otherwise signaling that we stand out from the crowd, that we are not sheep in a herd. This вЂtopвЂ™ is relative-it means something different to everyone. In our hyper-connected, competitive society, everybody is vying for a place at the top. Can you tell who a person is by what they study? Are all archeology-majors Indiana Jones-replicas? LundagГҐrdвЂ™s culture columnist Ondrej Gomola writes about not judging the book by itвЂ™s subject.

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