Going through a normal day, one unconsciously comes across a variety of objective and subjective claims made by anyone you might interact with. Whether your parents, friends, teachers, and even yourself, everyone essentially creates persuasive claims that can be categorized as either objective or subjective. One of the claims, subjective, is related to one's personal standards. For example, I personally like this Filipino delicacy named "balut", which is basically a hard boiled duck egg with a developed duck inside. Well ironically, I was watching a reality show named "Fear Factor" one day only to see contestants fearing to eat this "disgusting" food. Now although I think it tastes great, other people from different cultures and preferences might find it "gross" thus my personal favor makes my claim subjective. In contrast, an objective claim is usually factual information but generally could be any statement that is impersonal from the speaker making the claim. A random example could be when I lost my wallet and had to state the last time I had it. Because I'm simply giving away a location, I'm not putting any personal input into my response, thus it becomes objective.
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ReplyDeleteAnyways, great job on your definition and example of subjective and objective claims. It was very precise and to the point. I agree with you, people of different cultures have different perceptions of other cultures' food, beliefs, and etc. I'm not sure if I have tried hard boiled duck eggs before, I say that because my mom tends to cook weird food and she doesn't tell me until the very end. So maybe I have tried it. Also your objective example clearly explains what an objective claim is. Keep it up! :]
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Good job explaining the differences between subjective and objective claims. Your description and analysis of the subjective claim example was clearly stated. I, too, have liked balut and seen that episode of Fear Factor and wondered about cultural differences. Being brought up in the United States, I was hesitant to eat the boiled duck at first like the contestants on Fear Factor, but once you get through the thought of it being a duck, it tastes greatJ! People are usually disgusted by the idea of it mainly because they can see the unborn duck in perfect formation unlike when people eat something like fried chicken where they don’t really see the chicken when it is bare.
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