Sunday, November 9, 2008

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.

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