RUBRICIZING

Have you ever heard of Rubricizing? Well, I haven't until yesterday when I read an article for one of my summer classes. Rubricizing means categorizing or putting people in a specific group. As stated in my textbook, "A stereotype is a rubric with a prepackaged set of meanings." There could be positives and negatives rubrics. "When we rubricize people, we quickly scan them for certain characteristics (often subconsciously) and place them into one of our mental file folders."

I believe we all rubricized each others. One example I could think of how we rubricized people is that whenever we see someone eating alone at a restaurant, we immediately think that he or she has no friends or love ones to eat with or something. This is a general example, but of course, not everyone fit to this example. However, thinking about how we all rubricized each others is not what surprises me. What surprises me is that we rubricized people UNCONSCIOUSLY.

This means that there's something inside of every single human being that make us JUDGE one another WHETHER we know it or not. This is very sad to think about. During my "Psychology of Adjustment" class, my professor said to us that she hopes that everyone will take something out of her class. I ,indeed, took her advice, because one of the things that I learned is rubricizing. My hope is to minimize rubricizing my peers, friends, family, and people that I just met. I'm learning to be more aware of my unconscious thoughts in my daily life.