Actions have the biggest impact on human feelings. If we’re sad, people acting nicely can easily cure our feelings and on the other hand, bad action can also destroy and hurt someone seriously. But why do people like to act badly towards other people even though they don’t like it too? This is kind of a lack of empathy which should be solved.

In our society, talking about bodily appearance might seem like a joke for some people, but it can harm other people’s feelings. Mostly, we would get a lot of opinions about our bodily appearance such as gender, weight, height, nationality, our style and especially our skin tone. Some people will start with a small joke, like what I have experienced when people often say “ey, why are you so short?’’ or “Why are you so fat?” This problem starts to get more serious because they think it’s just a joke and people started to imitate it and do it again and again.

Judging people from their nationality

Judging people’s body appearance becomes a very familiar thing to see and also very ordinary. In Thailand, we often say that America was very bad with racism, but Thai people are just as bad! We can easily see from the refugees that immigrate from Myanmar and Africa or other countries that get treated badly by Thai people. For example, Myanmar refugees have been taken advantage of and insulted by their employers, who overwork them and act disgustingly towards them. Thai people also rejected them out of Thailand without sympathy, even though they don’t have any home in Myanmar and have stayed here since the 1980s. Similarly, the Uighur refugees that also got rejected from Thailand, and Thailand made a lot of excuses like they’re not human or they’re terrorists.

Including disabled people

In Thailand, people also judge other people’s body appearance like in the case of disabled people or people that have contracted congenital diseases, which means that they were born with these diseases and it isn’t their fault. Most people look at them with disgust, act like they are pathetic and laugh at them like they’re freaks. Some disabled people get bullied by their friends in school and become depressed or started to isolate themselves. For me, I think people should regret and be sorry for these people because they cannot choose their own body. Everyone wants to have a good and healthy body. No one likes to be like that so don’t blame them for the body that they can’t choose.

What we can choose to do

From the above mentioned, we can easily see that we can’t choose our own body. We can’t choose to be someone and we also can’t choose to have a healthy body, to be beautiful, to be handsome, to have specific nationality, to be a specific gender or to be born with something that people want them to be. But there was something that people can choose which are “action” and “speech”. We can think it carefully before saying or acting something to someone. At least, that we have this ability so we should choose the best way to say or act to others body appearance.

The way world should change

This problem continually in our world and seems like it’s hard to stop. Nearly a quarter of a billion children and young people world-wide are bullied each year. It makes me think that because we are one little part of this world, we’re all human , we all have feelings and we are equal so we have to act with other people the same way as what we want to receive. They shouldn’t get treated like this and their value shouldn’t be declined by other people. Now it’s the 21st century, people that are oppressed shouldn’t be treated in this way anymore. They should be able live in this world proudly and grateful to be themselves so the world can be a pleasant home for everyone.