#personal traits

[queenie435]

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Why People Hate Others for Their Differences

Hatred toward people based on their skin color, sexuality, beliefs, or other personal traits has existed throughout human history, but it is not something people are born with. Instead, it grows out of a combination of fear, upbringing, insecurity, and social influence. Although the specific targets of hate may change from one generation to another, the reasons behind prejudice often follow the same patterns.

One of the strongest roots of hate is fear of the unfamiliar. Human beings naturally feel safer around what they recognize, and many people react with fear when they encounter someone who does not look, think, or live like they do. When that fear goes unchallenged, it can easily turn into anger or hostility. Instead of trying to understand something new, some people choose rejection because it feels easier and more comfortable.

Another major factor is the environment people grow up in. Prejudice is learned, not inherited. Families, communities, cultural traditions, and even media all play a role in shaping how people see others. A child raised hearing hateful ideas often grows into an adult who believes those ideas, unless they consciously choose to unlearn them later. This is why racism, homophobia, and intolerance continue across generations—they are passed down, not naturally developed.

Hate can also grow out of insecurity and the need to feel superior. When individuals feel powerless or unhappy with themselves, they sometimes look for someone else to blame. Belittling others becomes a way to avoid facing their own struggles. In this sense, prejudice becomes a shield—protecting the hater from confronting their own fears or shortcomings.

Humans also have a deep instinct for forming groups, which creates an “us vs. them” mentality. This instinct once helped our ancestors survive, but today it often causes division instead. People become attached to their groups—whether based on culture, politics, religion, or identity—and start to view differing groups as threats. When belonging feels important, rejecting others can seem like a way to protect that belonging.

In many cases, hatred grows simply from ignorance. Understanding someone’s identity or experience requires effort, empathy, and open-mindedness. Unfortunately, many people avoid that effort. It becomes easier to judge than to learn, easier to assume than to listen. Ignorance is a comfortable space for those who fear change or feel challenged by differences.

A significant portion of hate also comes from projection. People often direct their internal conflicts outward, criticizing others for traits or emotions they struggle with themselves. Someone who feels insecure about their own identity may lash out at those who express theirs confidently. In this way, hate is often more about the hater than the person being hated.

Finally, hatred is influenced by historical power structures that were built long before the present day. Systems of racism, sexism, homophobia, and class division have shaped society for centuries. Even as laws and attitudes improve, the beliefs embedded in those systems do not disappear instantly. They leave behind ideas and biases that some people continue to spread unconsciously.

In the end, discrimination has very little to do with the individuals who are targeted. It reflects the fears, insecurities, and misunderstandings of those who harbor hate. The truth is that empathy, acceptance, and understanding are learned behaviors—just like prejudice. When people choose curiosity over fear and compassion over insecurity, hate loses its power. The world moves forward not because hate disappears on its own, but because individuals decide to see others with humanity rather than hostility.

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My personality is the perfect mix of: „no offense, but fuck you.“

[theorchidlove]

Are You Judgmental?

Judging others is one of the favourite past time of many of us. Invariably, it is being done for the persons, we do not know much about. Why being judgmental is such a popular action?Judging others actually feeds on our prejudices. It shows a lack of respect for the person being judged. It reflects on the person judging others as an insecure, egoistic personality who lacks intellect. This is so…

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Today we have been producing series of photos that show the models personal traits.

[j-ayee]

[a-t-old]

Day brief: creating a gif.

We were set a brief for the day to create a gif based around a personal trait we wished to convey. 

This was the first time I’ve made a gif, and I used Adobe Illustrator and Premiere Pro to do so. 

I started off thinking about some of my personal traits, which was actually quite difficult. I can be quite thorough in my work and have been described in the past by some of my tutors as conscientious, but I thought it would be quite difficult to illustrate/ demonstrate these qualities, so I went in the opposite direction; negative traits and qualities.

I am, unfortunately and against my best efforts, a bit of a pessimistic person some of the time. This was the best negative trait I could come up with at the time, so I began creating a storyboard (as recommended by our tutors), of how I could show this quality or convey what it might feel like. 

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As demonstrated by the sketch above, my first idea involved showing pessimism as something that gradually takes over how you think and see things. Using rotating lines around a form and a section that expands over the face- or animated lines that run behind the form- starting off in colour and then gradually draining until they move in black and white. The gif would end with the word pessimistic on screen, dimming or glitching. In the end, although I liked the idea, I thought it was a bit long winded for a short gif, so I moved on to my next one. 

My second idea was a sort of extension of something from the first- using moving line/s together with colour in some way. I came up with the idea of a multicoloured squiggle- which would start in the gif in full colour, and then from one end start going dark, until it was in tones of black and white. This was to depict a pessimistic mindset latching on to your thoughts until your mood/ mentality leans towards the negative. 

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I used some coloured circles and the Blend tool (specified steps) in Illustrator to create the squiggle: a full colour version, and then one where the first colour (red) was replaced with black (which turned out to be grey at the end) to represent the ‘touch of negativity’. (I decided to do this instead of having the whole thing change colour). I then took these into Premiere Pro and applied a wave warp distortion effect- which gave the line the appearance of wiggling about. 

Originally, the text wasn’t a part of my idea, but I later added the word pessimistic and animated it using a (modified version of a ) glitchy animation technique- that I learnt while creating one of my outcomes for the last module. Having a pessimistic mindset no matter how hard you try not to can be something that’s incredibly frustrating, so I animated the word pessimistic in a way that might convey that- crashing against the edge of the screen the same way someone might bang their head in frustration. 

Reflection

I’m happy with the way the animation turned out, although the wiggly movement of the line is different to how I first intended it to be. The effect I applied in Premiere Pro made it look like the squiggle itself was flowing, but it wasn’t the up-down movement I originally imagined. I essentially took the easy way out of animating, as I had a really limited knowledge of After Effects at the time, but it’s something I think would have produced a much more effective animation as it’s what the program is built for.  Other options could have included animating in Photoshop- which I saw produced some great results and looked quite fun to do. I think that method of animating would have looked cool with some hand drawn/ painted imagery as texture can really add a lot of dimension.