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Left or right: what is it like to be left-handed in a right-wing world?

The words leftist and rightist have had a rather negative connotation ever since they came into the hands of politicians. But let's wave our hands - right or left? - at this definition and rather focus on the real problem of leftism and rightism, which is not political, but biological in nature. In a world tailored for right-handed people, it's not easy for left-handed people.

It's not easy to be left-handed in a world that to him the right wing rules. In a world where a simple task for people is turned into an (impossible) challenge just because they 'think' with the other hand. No wonder it just 85% left handed considers for awkward and clumsy. Opening a can, cutting with scissors, reading a magazine, even zipping up pants, all of that daily 'bagatelle', which are at the very bottom of the scale of manual skills in terms of difficulty, mean whole to them project. Not to mention silver hands and guitars. No wonder if ever a left-handed person in this to a 'levophobic' world 'break a string'!

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World left-handed day13.8.2014

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