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Human Behavior (Kylie and Sarah) - Coggle Diagram
Human Behavior (Kylie and Sarah)
Stereotyping
A woman from the movie Crash, named Jean, held many stereotypes. One such example was that she thought her locksmith was a crook simply because he was Latino. This shows a modern example of a stereotype, and how impactful they are, despite being wrong.
In the textbook, we received a story from a woman named Jeanne Park. She described how stereotypes about Asians impacted her life because she adopted some of them. For example, she thought that she was superior because she was smarter than most white classmates. Eventually, she figured out that these are simply stereotypes that are very harmful to others.
Suina, a man in the textbook, had a strong experience with stereotyping. In the army, he was treated as an average American citizen. However, when his comrades discovered that he was Native American, they attributed him to a personality that he didn't have before. The experience affected him because, like Jeanne Park, he started believing the stereotypes.
"a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing"
Hate/Racism
Slavery is a historical example
of one group
thinking that they are superior
and that another group of
people should work for them
In Crash, Ferhad, a shopkeeper, tries to shoot Daniel out of hate because he thinks that he did not properly fix the door of his shop. Even though he was innocent, he almost shot his daughter. Ferhad acted rashly because he did not want to be taken advantage of. He is an example of hatred and how strong of an emotion it is.
The bombing of a federal
building in Oklahoma City on the same day as
Wako occurred shows hate
against the government.
"a passionate feeling of dislike"
Anti-Semitism
2 years ago, in Duxbury, a scandal emerged when members of an opposing football team heard Duxbury players and coaches using Anti-Semitic terms as play calls. This shows how while some may think of Anti-Semitism as a thing of the past or something that only happened in Germany, it is very much still relevant and can be seen in ordinary towns.
"hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people"
During World War II, Adolf Hitler targeted Jewish people and other minorities in an attempt to create a "perfect society". This led to the deaths of over 6 million innocent German citizens. This is one of the most prevalent examples of Anti-Semitism to date.
Anti-Semitism dates as far back as the High Middle Ages in Europe. Jewish people were blamed for things that they obviously had nothing to do with, such as the Plague. They were killed, their temples were burnt, and they were prevented from getting jobs and joining guilds.
Fear
In the movie Crash, Jean, a stuck-up white lady was scared of her house being robbed, so she yelled racist things at the locksmith, Daniel. Jean acted in a racist/hateful way out of fear, and as a result, her actions negatively affected Daniel.
Manson’s followers were afraid of not being loved and scared of being alone which allowed them to be submissive and easily taken over by Manson.
As the Holocaust progressed people feared standing up against Hitler because they did not want to get killed. Fear makes problems continue because people fear the consequences of standing up to an enemy.
"An unpleasant feeling
triggered by real or
imagined danger"
Scary movies are an example of how some people capitalize on this basic human emotion.
Discrimination
Charles Manson’s killings were meant to look like black people were discriminating against rich white people. To show this, the killers wrote words such as "pig", etc.
During the Holocaust, when a specific group was used as the scapegoat for the rest of the nation's problems, they were discriminated against.
"The unjust treatment
of people of different
groups based on
race, age, and sex"
Obedience
Jonestown and its leader, Jim Jones, are another example of an extreme cult with very obedient members. They were so devoted to Jim that they gave him large amounts of money and flew with him to a new civilization in Guyana. Unfortunately, the situation ended horribly, as almost everyone died, either willingly or unwillingly.
Obedience was manifested through Charlie Manson's followers. He had a talent for discovering who was in need of a leader, and he would adopt them into his cult. Members soon became so charmed by him that they would do as he said, without question. Their group imploded when they were so loyal that they murdered several innocent people just because Charlie told them too.
"compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another's authority"
The Milgram Experiment is also an example of obedience. In this experiment, the "teacher" was in charge of teaching the learner by sending them shocks when they got an answer wrong. However, it was staged so that the teacher thought that they were giving the learner fatal shocks that were causing a heart attack. Shockingly, some teachers continued to shock, just because the man running the experiment told them to. Therefore, this is an example of being obedient without thinking for oneself.
Identity
Race, gender, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, etc., are all things that can be included as parts or all of one's personal identity. Every person is unique and therefore has their own identity.
In the textbook, there was a story about a bear. The bear did normal bear things until one day he became a part of the human world. At this point, the humans told him that he wasn't a bear and that instead, he was a very hairy man. The bear protested until he lost his sense of identity and thought that he was a human. His story teaches the lesson that one should always remain true to their identity, even when others try to tell them otherwise.
Some things that define who I am are soccer, hockey, rowing, my family, my friends, my dog, reading, summer, the beach, watching movies, and reading books. These things all add up to my own individual identity.
"the fact of being who or what a person or thing is"
