Thought for the day by Charles Handy on how labels can prejudice and limit one's view of another person, as well as one's view of self. Handy begins the thought discussing an old Victorian picture by Charles Allan Gilbert that features both a picture of a woman and a skull in the same image, depending on one's vantage point. He uses the Gilbert illustration as the basis for a reflection on how labels inform and distort people's perceptions and impressions of others. Handy proceeds to note how the media is a great labeler of people, and that Jesus Christ must have encountered the same problems as modern people in approaching his work as a carpenter-turned-messiah. Handy concludes the thought stating that people are more than their labels, and hopes that it will become bad manners to ask someone what they did in order to determine who they are and label them.
Handy, Charles B Gilbert, Charles Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Jesus Christ Labels
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Thought for the day by Charles Handy on how labels can prejudice and limit one's view of another person, as well as one's view of self; Charles Handy Papers; Box 18, Folder 16; 2 pages
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