How to Improve Intercultural Sensitivity : Overcome Ethnocentrism Through Avoiding Assumptions

[rebelspirit1000]

The real plan is not "Avoiding Assumptions". They want you to turn off everything you know and understand. Be helpless and ignore intuition and common sense. Hate your culture and ACCEPT theirs! They want to kill whitey. Overcome Ethnocentrism Through Killing White People.

[Zendout1]

Poor Retarded Liberal

Segregation works better

[Babybluebird1]

excellent

[GuerrillaMaster]

out of all 7 of the French people i've met, 6 of them have been gay, 5 have been rude, and 6 and got their ass kicked.

[newfish09]

@GuerrillaMaster i dont get it. you assualted a gay man?

[GuerrillaMaster]

@newfish09 No. I was harrassed. and words did not solve the problem.

[wags21stplayhouse]

yes the french are very nice, that's why they cant stop an invading army from taking away their land,

[worshipjesustheking1]

no jack its not

[smilinjack30]

@worshipjesustheking1 LOL

[smilinjack30]

@expertvillage.....What wrong with ethnocentrism? Can you really expect humans to never make any judgments on groups of people unless they have personally evaluated every person within the group? Isn't that a bit unrealistic?

[LOZandKHfreak]

@smilinyour atitude tword assumptions is sorta a catch 22

you believe (or im assuming you believe) that not "assuming" things about people is impossible, your statement indicates that you would like to not generalize about others but you just dont think its possible. trying to convince you otherwise is the catch 22 because id actualy have to assume a few things in turn since im not speaking with you face to face.

[LOZandKHfreak]

@smilinjack30

i believe that to be a good person you must always reach for perfection and at the same time realize it is an unobtainable goal. yes this creates a circle. perfection is impossible, but it should always be a goal

[smilinjack30]

@LOZandKHfreak I understand the goal, however judgment is a safety mechanism built into all human beings. Imagine if we never made any judgments. How many people would be killed by things they should've known were dangerous, but in an effort not to be judgmental failed to recognise the danger. For example, not all pitbull terrier dogs bite people however you would be hard pressed to find a family that wouldn't think twice about moving next to a neighbor that had four of them.

[LOZandKHfreak]

@smilinjack30

instead of attempting to avoid assumptions as a whole, i believe one should try to avoid certain types of assumption, or avoid "presuming" ( or Pre-Assumption)

what i mean is this, assumption is natural. so "Naturally" its impossible to avoid assuming. But Natural Assumption is not inherently wrong. (at least not morally or ethically) To assume is simply a way for us to react to new situations we have not dealt with before by using previous situations in our mind as reference.

[LOZandKHfreak]

@smilinjack30

Now, pre-assuming, is not natural, but is taught. While assumption is just a really fast, logical way of reacting to situations,so fast that it's practically involuntary, pre-assuming is different. Pre-assuming is a "passive" choice. Whilst you may not be always be conscious of it, it is still something the person in question chose to do. one allows them-self to assume before its necessary. Like turning a light on or off.

[LOZandKHfreak]

@smilinjack30

Pre-assumption is something that one does before a new, unfamiliar situation comes up. A person may assume, "anyone with a knife who is not in a kitchen setting is a unsafe and i should retreat if ever in around such a person." This person than has assumed how they should think in a multitude of "yet to happen" situations.

[LOZandKHfreak]

@smilinjack30

Not only have they not thought of the multitude of people who would not harm them in a non-kitchen set (making a massive assumption on any non-kitchen situation) they have actualy made an error by assuming also that it does not matter who has a knife in a kitchen setting is, they are safe.(making a massive assumption on people with knives in general)

[LOZandKHfreak]

@smilinjack30

one may retort, "People will have the common sense to adjust there views according to the situation" I do believe that for people, it is generally true, but i do not think it true for Common sense. By making the aforesaid assumption, one makes a rule inside their mind.Common sense says that there are always exceptions to rules, and allows one to use intuition to tell when that the rule can be denied.

[LOZandKHfreak]

@smilinjack30

While common sense is good for make exceptions to rules, it is not so for making rules and common sense is the main factor in making assumptions and so pre-assumptions.

When one makes any form of assumption they use there common sense to link past events to events now happening or just about to happen, allowing themselves to react the way they think is most correct.

[LOZandKHfreak]

@smilinjack30

Using the information they have previously gathered and are now gathering, assumption allows one to make quick educated decisions on things they may not know much about. Pre-assuming attempts to do the same thing before any new situation has occurred or any new information has been obtained.

[LOZandKHfreak]

@smilinjack30

atempting to link past events and information with events yet to occur and information yet to be obtained defeats the point of assuming at all, since your trying to make an edjucated decision before there is even a decision to make.

Not only is the presuming or pre-assuming self defeating, its very illogical as well and, when you really think of it, even goes against the most basic principles of common sense.

[LOZandKHfreak]

@smilinjack30

so i guess what im saying is, whilst assumption actualy is a safety mechanism, it is not a functioning one if you attempt to use it before any event to protect oneself occurs, and if anything, does more harm than good. not just to ones life, but to ones ethics, logic, and even morality. though "assuming" is actualy a good thing, what people, at least when talking about assuming the way the video does, should realy be emphisizing the danger of pre-assuming.

THE END

[smilinjack30]

@LOZandKHfreak ..before the instance arises when they are confronted with that decision. This is neither self defeating nor illogical. Getting educated and forming early decisions about different things is how we are able to learn to not make the same mistakes of history. I would use your own example to further explain. You mentioned pit bull terriers. Do you think that learning that they are statistically prone to violent attacks and subsequently making an assumption that living next to...cont

[smilinjack30]

@LOZandKHfreak ..someone who owned them had a higher probability for injury and thus decides, when looking for a home, not to rent or buy a house where pit bulls are present is illogical?

[LOZandKHfreak]

@smilinjack30

ps, sorry for making you read all that (if you do or did read it) but youtube only alows so large a comment

[smilinjack30]

@LOZandKHfreak I disagree on a few of your points. I don't think making a decision, pre-assuming as you put it, before there instance the decision needs to be made is illogical or self defeating rather the opposite. It is simply learning from data and being prepared for a certain situation if/when it arises. A child learns growing up in school that drugs are bad and are taught the statistics and downward spiral of their use. The point is to have kids make a decision about the use of drugs cont..

[ClutchFan1971]

Hey lady who made this video...go spout your stupid shit to the lady in this video...

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