"This boy is so stingy, he must be from the South"

A good friend of mine showed me a photo of a girl a few days ago, and I casually said: "She looks average." Her answer shocked me: "It's okay. , After all, she is a girl from the Northeast, she looks good like this.”

This statement made me feel uncomfortable: Why can’t girls from the Northeast look good?

I refuted her point of view and searched the Internet for celebrities from the Northeast. Qin Lan, whom she liked, was also from the Northeast.

This is not the first time this has happened.

When talking about a male classmate, she said: "This boy is so stingy, he must be from the south." When talking about one of her roommates, he said: "She is from Henan, and she is such a nice person." Her unreasonable relatives said: "That's how rural people are, don't reason with them."

Every time I hear her remarks like this, I feel like a lump in my throat.

It is true that the place of birth will affect a person's character to a certain extent, but no matter which province, which region, which city or countryside, there are all kinds of people - the only difference is It depends on which one occupies the majority.

“Henanese steal manhole covers” is one of the most typical forms of regional discrimination and is widely circulated on the Internet.

People steal manhole covers all over the country, and there is no data showing that Henan people are more likely to steal manhole covers. Just because the man who stole the manhole cover was exposed in the news at that time and happened to be from Henan, he was labeled as a "manhole cover thief" ever since.

But in fact, Henan Province is full of talents: in ancient times, there were Laozi, the founder of Taoism, "Medical Sage" Zhang Zhongjing, and "Poetry Sage" Du Fu; today there are Olympic champions Deng Yaping, one of the "Four National Leaders" Liu Haoran, " Asian Flying Fish” Ning Zetao.

It would be too narrow to look at Henan people through colored glasses just because they steal manhole covers.

At some point, labels are also imposed on ourselves.

I am from Guizhou, a province that has long been marginalized.

Guizhou’s congenital conditions are indeed too poor. “The sky is not sunny for three days, and the land is not even for three miles.” There is a saying that "poor mountains and harsh waters bring out unruly people", which is also the impression many people have on Guizhou.

Therefore, I rarely took the initiative to mention my hometown to others. I was always afraid that others would label me as "poor and backward".

Why bother with such inferiority? Where are there no unruly people or poor people?

My hometown is my pride. It has beautiful mountains and clear waters, and a beautiful environment. Its forest coverage rate and air quality are among the best in the country, and it has nurtured generations of Guizhou people. With the rapid development of tourism, more and more outsiders are willing to come to Guizhou and learn about Guizhou.

Not to mention the moment of epiphany for the once-in-a-millennium thinker Wang Yangming, the tranquil and wild beauty, and the germination of Zou Shiming’s career, all took root here.

Why should I be busy labeling myself a "trickster" before this?

Today, not only my friends, but also many, many people are unwilling to spend enough time to understand others, and are happy to use their self-righteous labels to examine a person.

Even myself, at some point, I will unconsciously put on colored glasses, symbolizing and labeling each other when we are completely strangers to each other.

The tagged world is indeed very convenient. A few words and characteristics are enough to summarize an individual. Everyone can quickly find the right position and settle in.

It’s just that our thinking will become lazier and lazier, and we will become further and further away from the truth hidden behind the labels.

Fortunately, a very interesting phenomenon has appeared on social networks.

Whenever someone comments under major news: "As a xx person, I express...", there will always be a wave of replies "Please don't represent others, you are just yourself."

Yeah, why should I be represented by you, just because we come from the same place, belong to the same age group, or are born with the same gender?

I am an independent individual with my own preferences and unique ideas, not the sum of all the labels you put on me.

Take off the colored glasses, tear off the labels, let others go and let yourself go.

You will find that this world is so exciting.