Society's Pressure to Become Right Handed

Society’s Pressure to be Right Handed
Within the United States, right-handed people make up approximately 90% of the population. It has been proven that your dominant hand is genetically chosen. Desks scissors and notebooks are created for people with a dominant right hand. Is the huge gap in numbers between left and right brained partially due to societal pressure? In many languages right is a synonym for good and left is a synonym for evil. Being left-handed was previously thought of as being a sign of the devil. Research also shows that left and right-handed people think differently. Left brained people start a task usually and complete unlike right-brained people who start many at the same time. The schools system caters and praises those who are organized and articulate. They completely favor the left brained thinker. If school system made music and art as mandatory as math and science more people would practice using a different part of their brain and therefore contribute differently to society.

Advertising

Commercialization
Advertising a very interesting thing to think about. Studying the drawing techniques behind cults is sometime used by advertisements agencies. The advertisement companies claim that people buy certain products do the mere exposure effects and because they long to be part of a group and when the feeling of this desire is inevitably not fulfilled they must go shopping and continue the vicious cycle. I have problem believing that every product we buy is simply in order to fit in and to belong. I also acknowledge that I am probably not aware of the huge effects that advertising has on all of us. I wonder if one is able to live in contemporary, civilized society and not be affected by advertisements. They are everywhere; even at the bottom of golf holes.