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Damn Dirty Apes! The Evolution of Prejudice as Scientists See the Beginnings of Racism in Monkeys
Posted on April 20, 2011. Filed under: Editorial, Psychology, Social Media |
Posted by Chauncey DeVega on @ 11:12 am Article printed from speakeasy: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy URL to article: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011/04/15/damn-dirty-apes-the-evolution-of-prejudice-as-scientists-see-the-beginnings-of-racism-in-monkeys/ Psychologists have long known that many people are prejudiced towards others based on group affiliations, be they racial, ethnic, religious, or even political. However, we know far less about why people are prone to prejudice in the first [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Cellphones are becoming useless at their primary function – Voice and text
Posted on September 30, 2010. Filed under: Social Media |
I’ve noticed a very disturbing trend. It’s that cellphones are becoming useless at their primary function – which is voice and text. I’d been talking about and tweeting my thoughts and dissatisfaction with the sorry state of cellphone services today when I came across a blog post by Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams, who also believes that [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Michael Moore to Receive the John Steinbeck Award
Posted on September 22, 2010. Filed under: Social Media | Tags: En Passant, Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, Literature, Michael Moore, Nobel Prize, San Jose State University, United States, World Literature, Writing |
The family of John Steinbeck, the Nobel Prize-winning author of “The Grapes of Wrath” and other American classics, and the Center for Steinbeck Studies, have announced that they are giving their prestigious John Steinbeck Award to Michael Moore. They’re making their official announcement today and I thought you’d like to see the statement they’ve released [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Google Me Details Emerge: Social Layers and Building off Buzz
Posted on September 19, 2010. Filed under: Social Media |
Brennon Slattery, PC World Sep 17, 2010 7:34 am It’s hard to resist drawing comparisons between Google Me and Facebook, but as more details about Google’s ambitions to build a social network emerge, the more disparate the two become. Though Google Me was initially expected to be a standalone site, Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Elin Nordegren on Tiger Woods: ‘I’ve been through hell’
Posted on August 25, 2010. Filed under: Everything Else, Social Media | Tags: En Passant |
By Jay Busbee Follow Jay Busbee on Twitter at @jaybusbee. After nine months, Elin Nordegren has broken her silence on the infidelity scandal that rocked her family and led to the dissolution of her marriage to golf star Tiger Woods. In what she says will be a one-time-only discussion of her side of the story, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )SPEECH BY DR. ROLAND CHRISJOHN
Posted on August 18, 2010. Filed under: Humanitarian Issues, Social Media | Tags: Americas, Op-Ed |
…”Residential schools were one of many attempts at the genocide of the Aboriginal Peoples inhabiting the area now commonly called Canada. Initially, the goal of obliterating these peoples was connected with stealing what they owned (the land, the sky, the waters, and their lives, and all that these encompassed); and although this connection persists, present-day acts and policies of genocide are also connected with the hypocritical, legal and self-delusion need on the part of the perpetrators to conceal what they did and what they continue to do. A variety of rationalizations (social, legal, religious, political and economic) arose to engage (in one way or another) all segments of Euro-Canadian society in the task of genocide.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Lovers Online – Be Aware
Posted on August 14, 2010. Filed under: Everything Else, Social Media |
Wisdom to all those lovers online: If it begins here…it just might end here. Being in Communications I can factually tell you, there is a very, very different dynamic on all levels that occurs online than would in real life. Love online is highly, highly suggested as not a good idea. We are all able [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Write to Breathe
Posted on August 11, 2010. Filed under: Social Media | Tags: En Passant |
I write for the same reason i breath
If i didn’t I would die
Without words to express myself
Life is a broken winged bird that can’t fly
‘Racist’ Hollywood only wants Asians to play terrorists or cabbies: Dev Patel
Posted on August 10, 2010. Filed under: Social Media | Tags: Op-Ed |
Dev Patel thinks that Hollywood is institutionally racist, as it only wants Asian actors for the roles of terrorists, taxi drivers or geeks.
The ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ star, 20, from Harrow, north-west London, is frustrated by the lack of decent roles on offer and is currently jobless.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )10 Things We Can’t Live Without
Posted on July 25, 2010. Filed under: Social Media, Technology | Tags: Markets/Economy, Op-Ed, Psychology |
According to American news, these following things are part off their culture.
Some things could be different depending on culture and economy. ( example : Turkish coffee , Norway milk …)
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