Many know about the discrimination of a group, big or small, such as women, the corpulent or the homosexuals, but many do not know that the left-handed were andare to the day discriminated. Even though it is only a characteristic shared by about 10 per cent of the world, every day the left handed are oppressed by the right world, even most do not know they do.
Oppression against the left leads back to the biblical times. In The Bible, there is about 25 unfavorable references to the left hand. In Ecclesiastes 10:2, It states “A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.’’ Saying that the right hand is generally the best exercised and strongest. Languages also show the bias. In almost every language, there is at …show more content…
But one side of the brain has to be the dominant side or it will confuse it, therefore causing abnormalities such as dyslexia, stuttering, bad memory, etc. Tonya was only a child when her own mother forced her to write with her right hand. Her mother would snatch her pencils and yell at her to not use her left. She had a “bed-wetting phase” but never new it was due to her change. As an adult, she now gets mentally tired for no reason and she has difficulty speaking.(anything left handed) Dr. Muiris Houston was also born a citeog, but his grandfather ensured that he would use his right hand one summer as a toddler. He did not recall of this until he went into research about why he wrote with his right but did everything else with his left. (Houston) This is because even if you switch to writing with your right hand, you will still be fundamentally left-handed, meaning that you will still perform your daily tasks with your left, such as eating and playing …show more content…
It has been said that the left-handed are clumsier than the right-handed, but maybe because the fact that they live in a right world. Almost everything is made for the righties. From school desks, scissors, the computer mouse, the way we write, from left to write, and many more things. Since we all write from left to right, when a leftie writes, his or her hands trail over the words previously written. The left-handed have but no choice but to adapt to their ways since they’re only a small group of lefties compared to the 90 per cent of the world population of right-handed. The lefties also seem to have a lower income than the righties because they are at a physical disadvantage when faced with objects made for righties, so they’re most likely to work in manual