‘College students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like.’ Is stated in the article The Coddling of the American Mind. The authors Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt use logos, ethos, and pathos to discuss the issues and solutions for trigger warnings and macroaggressions on university campuses. The authors start the article off by giving examples and other pieces of literature written about trigger warnings on college campuses, these are examples of Logos. Logos is used throughout the document for example in the third paragraph the author observed the recent campus actions at Brandeis University.
In the article Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, Morris Fiorina addresses the issue of the illusion of political polarization. Political polarization is the separation of political beliefs into two separate extremes. The main illustration Fiorina uses is the use the electoral map. The electoral map is used to gauge which party won an election or polling.
A negative to this is that the states could not work together with other nations as a whole. This left the United States without any sort of
A Look Inside: “The Coddling of the American Mind” In the September 2015 issue of The Atlantic, the article, “The Coddling of the American Mind” co-written by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathon Haidt, was published. In this article, Lukianoff and Haidt make the argument that students of American colleges have become increasingly sensitive towards speech that could be deemed “offensive” or “triggering. And in an effort to appease students as well as avoid any possibility of a lawsuit being brought against them, colleges have become more willing to accommodate classes, by removing this type of speech from the curriculum.
The first instance I can think of when the subject of ethnocentrism is brought up about the US is how Americans generally belive that this is the greatest country in the world. We(Americans) tend to think that we are the best in everything just because we are American and if we lack in a certain area, we say that it was due to us not "caring." Another example of ethocentrism that is seen in the US is men not wanting women in certain areas of the work place, particularly where it is expected for men to work exclusively. Some American men, look at women more as subordinates instead of equals. My last example of ethnocentism is seen when in the low ranks of students in school.
Ever since the start of time in America, the country has always been divided because of all the events that have happened. Those events affect everything that happens in America and they always change people. That’s why I believe that America is just too divided to unite for the common good of our society because of the past events that happened, it’s always been too divided, and not anyone in America wants to unite. We will now explore these six sources and discover why America’s too divided to unite.
They believed that the organization of a new government would reduce the effects of political factions. They also pointed out that the great advantage of a federal system was to create a “happy combination” of a national government that is too large for any single faction to control. Also, it would create several state government that would be smaller and be responsive to local matters. They also stated that the proposed federal government separation of powers will stop any branch from violating the citizen’s right or taking over the national
Derek also provides an example of Hypothesis 2: Post decision dissonance creates a need for reassurance. Festinger defines post decision dissonance as “ strong doubts experienced after making an important decision” (Griffin, et al). Derek experiences strong post decision dissonance after leaving the Aryan Brotherhood. When he leaves one of the members tells him that he will be punished. This causes dissonance within Derek, he wonders if he made the right decision, and he feels regret almost.
"Uncomfortable Minnesotans: Embracing Confrontation" Minnesotans notoriously don 't like confrontation. We like to politely ignore offensive opinions, and prefer suffering in silence to speaking up and creating a potentially awkward situation. Especially in my private, Catholic school, where most students ' families have lived in Saint Paul since its founding, this culture of "politeness" is deeply ingrained in the community. This kind of culture has a major drawback: offensive language and discriminatory treatment often goes by unchallenged, and swept away after an awkward pause.
The article “The Dumbing Down of the American Mind,” by Doug Soderstrom, states that there is a very dangerous phenomenon occurring in the United States of America. It is the willful tendency for Americans to forgo reality in favor of believing what they want to believe. The author, Doug, uses irony and sarcasm to voice out his opinion about the Bush-Cheney administration, and somehow relates it to the five reasons he gave why we are in the state of “dumbing-down.” According to Doug, the unwillingness to learn of this generation, the tendency of our country to compartmentalize their religious belief from science and philosophy, and the procurement of freedom with the expense of responsibility and the interest in the needs of others
In response to the criticism offered by me, Coates is likely treat it as sort of false patriotism and as being not entirely in conjunction with reality. That, racism, and discrimination based on it thereof, is an undeniable reality, even in today’s society, seen in many facets of the country, whether explicit or disguised under policies and false consciousness. Furthermore, the fact that the discrimination is based on a system of caste and not class, that is, one which someone is born into and cannot change; defeats the purpose of providing opportunity, that each individual is, or at least should be entitled to as citizens, and hence would be construed as a violation of basic rights. Even still, the harms caused by racism are prevalent even
Fundamental attribution error (or correspondence bias) In my viewpoint that we just about people very easily when we see people what they are doing and all most all the time from the appearance of the people we judged them and we didn’t care or think that; is their another things that may be the cause or reason of these actions that those people do? For example when we see those Saurian, Afghans or Iranian that they leaving their country and going to western country from those unsaved and dangerous way they are insane but why they do most of the time we didn’t care about this part or those Afghans that Iran government force them to fight in Syria war we see those Afghans uneducated or insane but why they do that we didn’t ask from ourselves.” It is easy to think that poor people are lazy, that those people, who say something harsh, are rude or unfriendly, and that all terrorist are insane madmen.”
All around the world, Americans are known for possessing certain characteristics. We are seen as ignorant, selfish, but also hardworking. Americans are known for these characteristics and I see them in people that I know every day. Americans are called ignorant because they never seem to mind the "outside world". They really only seem to care about what is happening to them, not others.
Ethnocentrism is an action to judge or make a conclusion of another culture based the person’s own culture. Generally, an ethnocentric individual tends to evaluate other culture with his own culture’s standard and value, therefore he often believes that his own culture is better than other cultures. It’s very common that the ethnocentrism in a person may lead to dislike, verbal discrimination and frustration of other cultures. In short, this type of people always considers themselves as the supreme in the society. One of the best examples of ethnocentrism in U.S. is definitely among Americans, we always consider ourselves as supreme among people from another developing country because we believe America is the most influential country in the
Ethnocentrism and its prevalence in U.S culture Ethnocentrism is judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one’s own culture. Individuals who are ethnocentric judge other groups in relation to their own ethnic group or culture. I think The United States likes to refer to themselves as the “big mixing pot” of cultures. I would agree, we do have a wide range of different cultures, but that does not mean that we do not “evaluate and judge other cultures based on how they compare to our own cultural norms.” I think us as Americans feel this way, because we are too scared to change what we have learned and known since birth.