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Is it a natural human instinct to judge people the way they look?

I’m writing an article for a contest for young adolescent writers, and I just need some opinions to help me
yes or no, and why?

Sure. It’s probably even a kind of survival instinct from way back when people lived in tribes. If someone looked like they didn’t belong to your tribe, it signalled potential danger. A spy from another tribe, a person with a disease, a dangerous person who’d been expelled from his own tribe or whatever. You had to be alert and careful until you knew more.

Nowadays people dress how they want to be percieved. For example, if someone spends a lot of time and money to dress like a gangsta, it’s fair to assume that they admire something about gangsta culture, and that something may prove dangerous to you.

Obviously that doesn’t hold true for everything all the time, but we make lots of split second decisions about others that can cause us to save or lose our property and our lives. I think it’s fair to say that the people who are better at quickly judging others (when it comes to thier own safety) are the ones who live long enough to pass on thier genes and thier knowledge.

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