Article November 3, 1973 Issue

Likes and Dislikes

MARY RETTA TITUS

When I was growing up, I had a definite dislike for the tomato. However, when I went away to school and learned to eat what was set before me, I found that tomatoes are delicious and are prepared in many appetizing ways. Now I often enjoy them straight from a friend's garden.

Sometimes we are turned off by the appearance of a person we do not even know and pass him by. Then, when circumstance brings him into closer contact, we find much about him to like and enjoy. Just as it was with my ignorance of tomatoes, so it is with many individuals' underestimate of people.

Persons of different races or colors meet, and often before a word is spoken, before they even know each other, there is antagonism. The human mind is loaded with preconceived notions, some based on false education as to past history, classifications of people into races, labels as to characteristics of social groups. The formulated patterns are barriers to mutual understanding.

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