A Talk with My Daddy

Title: A Talk with My Daddy
Date: September 26, 2010
Category: Outside of Class

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            While eating noodles for lunch, my dad and I began to talk about the color change in the noodles. I hadn’t noticed that the noodles had changed colors from the last time we ordered it from green to white until he pointed this out to me. He didn’t just state this in a neutral tone. He liked the change to white because he believed that noodles should be white, not green. I disagreed and said it didn’t matter what color the noodles were, as long as they were noodles. Trying to convince me that noodles should be white and that everyone thought so, he explained to me that Coca-Cola had once made their cokes white. He told me that this change in color reduced their sales drastically because people believed that coke was supposed to look dark. I tried arguing that I would buy the white coke even if it was a different color, but sadly he eventually won in the end.  

            Should things always remain constant or be susceptible to change? Do we have an exact idea of how certain things should be? And if altered, does this change our idea or how we view the product? Is this how stereotype began? By having a certain image of how things should be, we tend to think of things different to our image as being unusual, strange, or even wrong. Perhaps this is how discrimination began, due to our lack of open-mindedness and because we had an image of certain things being the way they were. Does this mean that we shouldn’t have any ideas about how things are? Wouldn’t that mean that we would be completely without thought? With these questions arouse another –will discrimination ever end if we keep having a certain idea about how things should be?