Thaneshwar's Blog

I think something common with human behavior is that people change their attitude based on the person they are interacting with. A highly respected individual would receive more respect than just a random person. An example of this is a doctor. A doctor gets the title "Dr." behind their name (everyone else just has "Mr." or "Ms." or "Mrs."), and they are addressed this way, in respect, and have a high status in society. Due to their elite status, people are usually polite to them because they feel inferior to the doctor. But there are also other situations where the need to use polite or impolite language changes. Adding on to the examples of respected individuals, people tend to be more nice and polite to people who are older than them, like their teachers, bosses, and even their parents and grandparents. Other than just being polite, if there's someone who's superior to you, you feel the pressure to impress them. For example, if you...

I have a very unusual name, and I don't know anyone else who has it. My family calls me by the nickname "Thanesh," which sounds weird, so whenever I introduce my name to anybody, I just go by my actual name. Because of this, my name is mispronounced all the time. A key example of this is at the beginning of the school year, when your teachers take attendance and learn everyone's name for the first time. My name gets mispronounced almost always, and I always have to correct them with the right pronunciation. This is something that I've gotten used to over time, and I'm always prepared to correct anyone who mispronounces it, and it doesn't really bother me. This experience is similar to Dumas' piece, but once people get the pronunciation right, they don't mess up afterwards. But one time I don't feel the need to correct the pronunciation of my name is when I have a substitute teacher. These substitute teachers pronounce it in the most atrocious w...

While canceling student debt is a good thing for people that are stressing over the amount of money they have to pay back and just want to worry about their education, one such  article  on The Onion expresses the opinions of people who are not students. Even though the students are free from debt, there are other people who went through the same circumstances and thinks it's unfair that he wasn't free from debt. Arlo Jones, a chef, says, “Giving government handouts to people with student loan debt is unfair to those who have paid chef off their student loans and want to be real assholes about it.” With this quote, we can tell that Jones is definitely mad that he had to pay off his student debt, and the current generation doesn't need to, which gives them a massive head-start in life, which he thinks is unfair, which is true, and you can't really blame him. He has a right to be mad, but I don't think that should be a reason to oppose the cancellation of student debt...