The media - and society in general - mistakenly expect an individual to speak for a particular group, whether or not that individual truly represents the views of the entire group
...eneral, which mistakes people to expect an individual can express a group. In our society, human beings are manly divided into several groups, the persons from the same group always have the same basis of economy, the similar background of education, and so forming the similar conception of value and consuming, who may share the same thoughts in many things. So an individual can express the whole group. We can easily separate all the people into white-collars, blue-collars, and golden-collars just by salary and status in the society. On the other hand, the means of division the groups is very illegible, no one can tell a just and accurate means which can separate all the people exactly into several groups among which any individual shares the same ackground and same concept, because as we known, no two persons can share the same experience in the world even twins, and each one has his own process of growth that molding his own character. We can not require the persons who are in the same group are the same or even just similar to each other. It is unreasonable to speak that this one is belonging to this group, while another man is another. Generally, groups are so completed that even people in the group can not fully understand and speak for it within a few minutes. How can an ordinary person to...