Left-handers in the Right-handers' World
In this world there is right and wrong as well as well as right and left. For instance, the car steering wheel in our country is to the right whereas elsewhere it is to the left. More importantly, perhaps, we keep to the left while they keep to the right. Who is right? The question, of course, makes no sense. Let us admit it. This is a right-hander's world. We shake hands with our right hand, we vote with our right hand, we write with our right hand and we even swear with our right hand. The whole world appears to have been designed for the right-hander. Just look at the knobs on refrigerators or TV controls or where the hip pocket in our trousers is. All these seem to prove only one thing-that the designer himself is right handed!
We are so used to the right that in sports like cricket, or tennis, the mere presence of a single left-hander is particularly taken note of. We forget that he is the one that needs sympathy since he has to face right -handers nearly all the time. Why do we make such a big fuss over right wing and left wing when we know for sure that we need both wings to fly? And in an auto accident what matters is not who is right but who is left.
When we are aware of so much disparity between right and left in this world, it appears surprising for physicists to have assumed that nature is symmetric. It is, therefore, difficult to comprehend and appreciate that the coveted Nobel Prize in Physics' went to Lee and Yang in 1957 for telling the world that there is difference between right and left, something we have known all along!
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15 Comments
Post a Commentim left handed and i really think in this article u stress that we should be pitied? which makes no sense because growing up this way i saw no difference i notice no difference on the remote or even with having to use a right handed desk in school. it made no difference to me, i was going to do it my way anyway. and im pretty sure that's how we all feel. in fact it is only the left handers that understand wat a gift it is to see things from a different perspective than everybody else and in a way we pity you for just not getting it and for being all the same. only 11% of the population is left handed. my dad was, and he was an actual genius. he taught himself calculus before high school on a farm in mississippi an he became the head engineer at nasco for many many years. so dont feel bad for the left hander, we bring something special to the table.
Interesting insight. As a right-hander, I never really considered these points. Thanks.
You are very right! Great left handed article! :-)
I bet the world is catered to rightys
very informative!
Very informative article. One of our sons is left handed and deals with the things you write about.
AWESOME!!!!!!!!! ((((WILD APPLAUSE))))))
Very informative read here, great points!!!!!!!!!!!
Very interesting read. Yes the left handers are left out in the world of right handers. A good and informative article. Keep up the good work
I'm a lefty who was switched to a righty in school. I still do a lot of things left handed, but I do a lot of things right handed too.