For many years people were trying to find some features of tolerance. Sometimes it seems that society usually tries to find something that can differentiate people and pick on about them. It should not be limited to religion, preferences or color of the skin, but to many others not very significant characteristics. Handedness may be viewed as one of such characteristics. It should be said, that the scientists came to the conclusion, that social pressures effect greatly on handedness. The latest researches show that a few decades ago only 2 percent of the USA population wrote with the left hand, because the left-hand writing was discouraged. Moreover, in Taiwan, for example, only 1 percent of the population uses left-hand writing as it is condemned.
And in spite of the fact that society became tolerant enough of the handedness characteristics, the language still reflects some negative opinion of people using left hand while writing. For example the word “sinister” means “evil”, it is often used to show the negative attitude to the left-handers. Also one can often come across the French word “gauche” which is very often used to mean “awkward”. Of course left-hand writers are equally awkward with the right-handers.
It must be mentioned that any awkwardness, observed in left-handers, and also psychological disturbances which may be find out with people using left-hand writing, may be regarded as the result of intolerance of the society. From the medical point of view, left-hand or right-hand writing is explained by the work of the right or left cerebral hemispheres of the brain and it does not depend on the religious, racial or social characteristics.
History knows a lot of famous persons who were left-handed, such as Benjamin Franklin, Lewis Carroll and Leonardo da Vinci. It does not mean that they were awkward or strange.
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