Appreciative Respect

Respect is an important cultural tool that allows relationships to exist and people to intercommunicate peacefully. While we experience respect everyday it is a much more difficult concept to understand. The hard part of respect is the question of why we do it. This is especially tricky when realizing that it comes in a variety of forms and changes with social and cultural distinction. For example inter-gang respect will present itself differently then respect between work colleges in the language and actions it is expressed in. Therefore the only way to assimilate it is to find the underlying cause of respect. The first way I will break it up is into three different types. The first being respect out of dependency. The second is that which

If, however they both supply the same weight, for example one listens to the others problems because they know that if they in turn have problems the other one will listen, they balance each other out. This quid pro quo of respect allows mutualistic relationship. The second level of appreciative respect is that between a minor and their superior. This respect is also mutual but in an indirect way. For example a teacher provides his students with a means to learn and become successful later in life. Therefore the student would want to appease the teacher in order that he might more enthusiastically provide the curriculum and also grade more favorable to the student. If the student disrupts this by acting or making it harder for the teacher to do his job he will be less likely to enjoy teaching the student and less likely to grade the student favorable. The students thus respect the teacher for said benefit. Unlike the friendship between friends though, this relationship is not inter-beneficial. The teacher receives no immediate benefit from

This is a bit of a misnomer because the reason you respect yourself is because of how you want others to see you. When dealing with self respect it is easiest to think of it as a résumé of yourself. It is different than any other because you in every other type there was a giver and receiver of the respect. In this however you are both the giver and receiver. You do things which you think other people might approve of so that they then associate you with that sort of action. Such as people who donate large amounts of money to things such as public buildings or foundations, do so partially to benefit the community, but in a large part do so to build a reputation. Self-respect can also be practiced through what you do not do. Often times people will look at something you do or who you associate with and create a stereotype of you based on that. Therefore if you do not do those things and do not talk to those people will not associate you with those things they perceive as negative characteristics. To illustrate this I will tell a true story. Louis Armstrong was one of the greatest trumpet players of all time. He was however not a respected member of the jazz community at his time. Many of his fellow musicians despised him and refused to be associated with him. Such musicians as Miles Davis despised him and called him an Uncle Tom. The reason for this was because he chose to play in large arenas in front of predominately