Showing posts with label prejudice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prejudice. Show all posts
Monday, February 13, 2023

Proper Representation II

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 When I was young "representation" wasn't an issue. Instead you had "mobility", the idea that immigrants climbed the...
Thursday, February 09, 2023

What Is Proper Representation?

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The conventional wisdom now seems to be that groups, whether ethnic, racial, gender, ideological, deserve to have representation in every wa...
Friday, September 09, 2022

Unbelievable--So Much for White Superiority

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The other day the Times had an article discussing the composition of the cabinet selected by PM Truss, which notably had no white males in ...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Racism and Sex

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 The Times had a graphic 3 years ago showing the results of analyzing the earnings of black and white men and women.  The top graphic compa...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

I Forgot "Colorism"

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 I added "colorism" to my post of two days ago.  Bottom line is humans are built with emotional responses to the different and s...
Saturday, April 03, 2021

Why We're Prejudiced--We Love Our Kids

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 That's my take-away from this research at the Post's Monkey Cage. Parents seem to regard decisions that affect their children as t...
Monday, March 22, 2021

The Pull of the Familiar, the Push of the Foreign

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Both the Pos t and  Times   had Sunday articles discussing the Asian American community in Atlanta. The Post had a map showing its recent g...
Monday, August 17, 2020

Why We're Polarized

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In the process of reading this book by Ezra Klein.  One researcher he cites is Henri Tajfe l, who found that once we humans categorize thing...