How sentimental you are ?

It sounds as if you're describing prejudice instead of sentiment. It's the scourge of the human race, based on ego--we all must think we or our group is better than anyone different from us. It's folly of the worst sort and incredibly destructive. And it's unreasonable, ridiculous and unfair. I think we grow out of it, if we're lucky, as we grow older and experience more of life and broaden our horizons. Too many people don't, though, and so it continues.

I will not see sentiment as all the bad things associated with life. I believe at times, in life, for few things our mind do not know how to react. in this case, it is sentiment. We like to scream or shed tears silently. But also it is used in bad ways.

Yes, I must admit that I am too sentimental. When I was a little younger, I easily made decisions because I was too "drawn" with my beliefs and principles and because it is a great deal when it comes to my sentiments. But now that I reached my maturity level, though I am still very emotional and sentimental, I know already how to handle tensions and emotions and judged everything in my environment with utmost care. I am now also very sensitive when it comes to other people's feelings. I always look on things logically and never judgmental anymore. When it comes to religion as you mentioned, I am a devoted Catholic but never judged other religion, in fact I respected them and admired their beliefs, customs and traditions. I learned so many things from the great Pope, John Paul II, whom I admired so much. He was my role model of humility, fairness, justice and equality. I admire the way he treated all human beings. He made effort to bridge the gap between Jews, Catholics, Muslims and other religions when he was still alive, that's why I really respected other religions and sector, because they too are human beings that deserve respects and compassion. I do have my own principles and sentiments towards governance and other concerns, but I never blame other people just because they take different route of principles, everybody has his own right to voice out opinions. But in general I am very sentimental, talking heart to heart to the people I loved, sad movies and touching stories I read and watched on newspapers and television really reduced me to tears. I easily cry, I have a very shallow tears.

The situation of showing your sentiments comes when you do feel its not going too well,the emotional part for me is like this.i usually make myself up if i go through stress and get annoyed on any issue or with people for silly matters. why can't all people rely on the fact that the sentiments runs wide through all deprive of all the classifications.The negativeness is everywhere ,who created it ,yes,we humans for what,well to show their rage over happenings and this all ended up in nothing but brutality to man kind.People do not understand the need for peace when anger cross upon them.

I personally enjoy learning about the culture of my ancestors, who were German, Cherokee, Irish and English. But the problem would come from thinking that one of these is "better" or above the other. Which is what often happens if one is of one heritage and not mixed like so many Americans. This is more of a problem with religions of the world. No, I don't think that the majority of people in the world are educated enough to form thier own reasoning. Even here in the Bible Belt of the U.S. people are living sheltered lives. They may be educated from a viewpoint of "book smarts",especially if they have chosen to major in a specific subject, but they are not knowledgable about the variety of ideas and beliefs around them. Most christians do not venture too far from their safety zones and are told by thier preachers and ministers to avoid reading, hearing and seeing information about many subjects lest the devil find a weak spot to creep into their hearts. Even libraries in small rural towns tend to be limited in books on various subject matter. I once purchased a book from a local library for 50 cents. It was brand new and was written by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. I have also found many books offering various viewpoints, ideals, philosophies, experiences etc in small town libraries on the for sale racks. I even know of a coservative christian mother who would not let her son watch the DVD "Ice Age"..l. because of what.. evolution? Geez.. we are not so far from the Dark Ages after all.