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Oct. 19th, 2008 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatInteresting link to a Guardian article sent to me by Wales. She sent it with this comment:
"This (link below) just shows, the minority is the scapegoat. Whether it's Jews in the impoverished industrial Germany, or Christians in the developing India, or anything else it may be, human nature is always the same. I just hope this doesn't come back to the USA. I hope we don't get this economically messed, cus this is what happens."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/19/orissa-violence-india-christianity-hinduism
I wonder if this is human nature? Do we automatically turn against the minority in our midst, the person who is not like us? I've seen a lot of social psychology experiments regarding it.
The question is - I guess, to what extent are we sheep and to what extent are we our own person, making choices and taking responsibility for them - without giving that power to someone else?
"This (link below) just shows, the minority is the scapegoat. Whether it's Jews in the impoverished industrial Germany, or Christians in the developing India, or anything else it may be, human nature is always the same. I just hope this doesn't come back to the USA. I hope we don't get this economically messed, cus this is what happens."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/19/orissa-violence-india-christianity-hinduism
I wonder if this is human nature? Do we automatically turn against the minority in our midst, the person who is not like us? I've seen a lot of social psychology experiments regarding it.
The question is - I guess, to what extent are we sheep and to what extent are we our own person, making choices and taking responsibility for them - without giving that power to someone else?