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Showing posts with label bigotry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bigotry. Show all posts
Monday, January 2, 2012
Teaching Children To Respect One Another
Has anyone seen research where the researcher asks children, instead of a closed ended question like "Who is the smart one" but instead "Are all phenotypes equally nice and equally smart?" (Children may not know what a phenotype is but that creates a good opportunity to explain that a phenotype is only skin deep). Children can then be asked to explain their answer and where they learned their knowledge or stereotypes. Maybe they learned it from TV, radio, friends, students, family or even their parents.
This is the deeper dialog I would like to hear in grade school. Before children form all sorts of biases - adults should help them understand what a stereotype is and why stereotyping is wrong.
If it's found that a parent is teaching hate shouldn't that parent have a "Come to Jesus" intervention? Isn't it better to stop hateful teaching before it grows into another hate crime?
If it's found that a parent is teaching hate shouldn't that parent have a "Come to Jesus" intervention? Isn't it better to stop hateful teaching before it grows into another hate crime?
CNN's full story here
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Glenn is a European-American married to a Mexican-American. They have two children. Glenn is interested in progressive immigration reform, and desegregation within schools and communities. He is a life long learner with interests in sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and politics.
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Saturday, October 2, 2010
From Pride to Hate - The Slippery Slope
by: Glenn Robinson
Updated 8-9-2012
With the never ending news of violence and shootings - one might ask themselves - as Marvin Gaye said, what's going on?
I created this chart to help identify threats in which we should probably call the authorities, verses subjective threats, verses our every day disrespectful annoyances.
Below, in order from less threatening to most threatening, you will find:
Words for pride, fear, hate and violence, in order of intensity.
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| Degrees of Us vs Them / Gloria Yamato's Degrees of Racism- click chart to enlarge - |
By severity
Pride
xenophobia / homophobia / bigotry / blatant
animus
microinsults / microinvalidations / microaggressions / microassaults
animus
microinsults / microinvalidations / microaggressions / microassaults
Hate
More nuanced definitions can be found at Definitions and Semantics at the TheStudyOfRacialism.org
It's said that there is a fine line between love and hate.
Love of self (pride) can morph into arrogance. Arrogant people think they are superior - and in turn they probably dislike, or at least disrespect those who are unlike themselves.
Dislike or disrespect toward others can easily lead to hate - and then to a hate crime.
Many Americans are blatantly xenophobic and/or homophobic; homophobia is evident in our nation's attempts to prevent the LGBT community from marrying. And xenophobia is evident from our nation's eagerness to spend tax dollars building fences and maintaining outdated immigration quotas that do not meet our county's needs.
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Glenn is a European-American married to a Mexican-American. They have two children. Glenn is interested in progressive immigration reform, and desegregation within schools and communities. He is interested in sociology, anthropology, psychology and history.
Connect to Glenn at CommunityVillage.us
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