tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133291856968687534.post1408282219223013690..comments2023-10-23T14:13:00.947-07:00Comments on Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn: Against introspective cultural studiesH.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155248585975222332noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133291856968687534.post-42051404816687554092008-05-29T06:46:00.000-07:002008-05-29T06:46:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133291856968687534.post-88528579164769447522008-03-23T23:08:00.000-07:002008-03-23T23:08:00.000-07:00Interesting. And in an article linked from the on...Interesting. And in <A HREF="http://science-community.sciam.com/blog-entry/Mind-Matters/Harvard-Students-Perceive-Rednecks-Neural/300008563" REL="nofollow"> an article linked from the one you posted</A>, experimenters Mitchell and Banaji are quoted as concluding - on the basis of brain scans - that "a critical strategy for reducing prejudice may be to breach arbitrary boundaries based on social group membership by focusing instead on the shared similarity between oneself and outgroup members."<BR/><BR/>And yet, and yet - if I were to invoke <A HREF="http://reflectionpapers.blogspot.com/2007/12/blogger-identity-issues.html" REL="nofollow">my personal history</A> toward understanding how others learn to understand persons different from themselves, I would find it hard to imagine that noting similarities would go very far. Rather, repeated and insistent exposure to the radically different is needed. But then, it might be inconsistent with the very argument of my entry above to invoke my personal experiences to understand how intercultural understanding is achieved for others... Maybe I should just read the research instead.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, if we are to believe that similarities are a precondition for sympathy and understanding - does that entail that understanding of very different persons can be achieved only by becoming more like them? That would be a possibility - and certainly exposure to other music, humor and value statements can change our own taste in these matters, maybe making us less culturally dissimilar. If that is how intercultural understanding is achieved, however - does that help explain why some fear the encounter?H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00155248585975222332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133291856968687534.post-23790515623195407782008-03-23T20:18:00.000-07:002008-03-23T20:18:00.000-07:00I'm not sure if this answers your questions, which...I'm not sure if this answers your questions, which are very good, but there is a new tidbit of relevant research:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=politically-correct-why-g" REL="nofollow">Politically Correct: Why Great (and Not So Great) Minds Think Alike</A>Ben Chunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06741250809904031803noreply@blogger.com