Both subjective and objective claims use standards to justify their conclusions. Standards created by society or our culture if it concerns someone’s physical appearance and even one’s attitude towards others.
At lunch today my friend said, “This chile colorado isn’t spicy.” But upon trying it I felt that it was a bit on the spicy side. Coming from a family where none of the food is “hot” or “spicy”, I am sensitive to foods that are very “hot”. Unlike my friend who grew up eating plenty of chile and pepper in her food. The claim she made at the restaurant was subjective because she used her personal standard to determine the spiciness of the food. I think that when it comes to conclusions concerning food they are usually subjective to every individuals favorites or dislikes when it comes to food.
This summer I spent a lot of time at my cousin's house and every day we would watch Filipino Tagalog soap operas on TV. We both would claim that everyone on the show is lighter-skinned. Both being tanner, dark browner, chocolaty colored girls (at least that's the color we call our skin tone). This claim is objective because it is the reality of it and not about how we feel or think. Nearly every person we see on Filipino television has a lighter skin tone the less common skin tone of Filipinos. The color of their skin has no influence on our watching.
Hi Catalina,
ReplyDeleteI really like your example for the subjective claim. I used a similar one and also used food to show what a subjective claim is. It makes sense to use such examples to explain what a subjective claim is because food is something that differs depending on everyone's likings and own tastes. It is therefore really hard to generalize food and how it tastes to everyone seeing how each person has their own preferences.
As for the objective claim, I also liked your example and thought it was a good one.
You did a really good job explaining what both claims are and your examples demonstrated perfectly what both claims are. So great job :)
Elsie-
I liked your example of the spiciness of the restaurant dish for something subjective. It clearly shows how people have a different understanding of a shared understanding in our society. Your example of the skin tones for objective references is a little more difficult only in that people all see variations in skin tone differently. I might have used an example of a test score, or the batting average of some random baseball player. These are things that are not arguable in the sense that they can be looked up by anyone in the world and only one answer would be possible.
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