How exactly does Celine believe group dynamics work anyhow? Humans do not need to be taught a firm scientific classification scheme in order to classify the world around them. It's the most basic function of the brain, to sort things into groups and then categorize those things as threatening or non-threatening. And anything that is unfa…
How exactly does Celine believe group dynamics work anyhow? Humans do not need to be taught a firm scientific classification scheme in order to classify the world around them. It's the most basic function of the brain, to sort things into groups and then categorize those things as threatening or non-threatening. And anything that is unfamiliar is instinctively an area of risk. When Steve et. al. talk about ignorance, that's mostly about the lack of upfront information about the unfamiliar. It can be about being explicitly taught a group hierarchy, but even without such teaching the classification will still be created by the individual.
"When Steve et. al. talk about ignorance, that's mostly about the lack of upfront information about the unfamiliar."
Yep, exactly. That ignorance can be overcome. Chris above posts a link to one of my favourites, Daryl Davis, who has demonstrated this more effectively than anybody else I'm aware of. But he doesn't overcome that ignorance by saying, "well, Mr. Klansman, were you aware that race is a social construct?"
How exactly does Celine believe group dynamics work anyhow? Humans do not need to be taught a firm scientific classification scheme in order to classify the world around them. It's the most basic function of the brain, to sort things into groups and then categorize those things as threatening or non-threatening. And anything that is unfamiliar is instinctively an area of risk. When Steve et. al. talk about ignorance, that's mostly about the lack of upfront information about the unfamiliar. It can be about being explicitly taught a group hierarchy, but even without such teaching the classification will still be created by the individual.
"When Steve et. al. talk about ignorance, that's mostly about the lack of upfront information about the unfamiliar."
Yep, exactly. That ignorance can be overcome. Chris above posts a link to one of my favourites, Daryl Davis, who has demonstrated this more effectively than anybody else I'm aware of. But he doesn't overcome that ignorance by saying, "well, Mr. Klansman, were you aware that race is a social construct?"