Today’s Topic Is About Bias & Race
Watch today’s recommended TED at: https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_l_eberhardt_how_racial_bias_works_and_how_to_disrupt_it?language=zh-cn#t-850525
I’ve been thinking about bias and racial problems for a long time. With the development of parades for Goerge Floyd, racial problems have arisen again. Personally speaking, I don’t think impressions based on one’s skin color, one’s family, one’s status, or one’s appearance are justified at all. Those things can serve as indicators of people to a certain degree, of course, but they are not 100% precise. However, from the view of possibility, behaving differently to different people based on their “indicators” is reasonable and rational, which can bring about the greatest amount of averaged benefits(just like gaining greatest expectations in statistical problems in math). But in most cases, people won’t contact others only once, the most idealized circumstance is that a person needs to adjust his/her manners to others based on their following interactions afterwards. This is the first adjustment one should be aware of.
The second rectification is that one’s perception of others’ “indicators” should be “updated” to the “latest version”. It is common nowadays that some people still use outdated “versions” of “indicators”. This may be due to some people’s lack of updated information or not choosing to walk out of their thinking pattern and circle. If a person only gets access to one kind of information, the information will reinforce itself and it’s hard for him/her to get out. To get rid of it, one needs to know more information from more sources and try to think differently.
To be honest, these two adjustments are not easy for everyone. This is a complicated world, and there are complicated circumstances. But to make it forward, I still think to help people get better education(not just learn to work out some math problems or to recite some articles or to know some basic knowledge in each subject) and to advocate more people to achieve these two adjustments mentioned above are essential.
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