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Permalink Reply by Beanow on July 16, 2011 at 11:13pm

It's crazy every time I see these things. Even though I know it works that way.

Good reality check anyways to rethink it.

 

I liked this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlFAd4YdQks&NR=1

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Permalink Reply by The Shiznit on July 18, 2011 at 7:11am

That video deals with another subject that interests me a great deal - cultural stereotypes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype

And that one in particular has affected me personally, more than once in my life.

The thing is, there has been research done which shows that not only are women more emotional & violent than men are, but also that most incidents of domestic violence are initiated by the women involved!  Yet people still refuse to believe the facts, and continue along their merry way believing this false stereotype that men are the more violent aggressors.  I'm not so sure that women are necessarily more violent by nature; but it is entirely logical that they would be more inclined to resort to violence than men are because they know that they are more likely to get away with it due to the false stereotype!

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Permalink Reply by maikel de haar on July 16, 2011 at 11:35pm

that stuff would never work on me lol

had alot of times i was the only at my class giving the right awnser and everybody else followed the wrong awnser of the rest. Strangely i been bullied and been treated like a fucking outcast for years and years at that school. I never had the urge of wanting to fit in allways want to do stuff my way. Never bully people continuesly it scrars people for life specially at really young age (will make a discussion about it soon)

I met most of them recently and it seems im the only one of the class succeeded at life and still getting better and better at it. Whos laughing now : )

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Permalink Reply by Essah on July 17, 2011 at 2:26pm

that sounds very familiar to me. I reckon im typically the one to not follow the rest and I was bullied too. 

about scarring people for life... very true. still strugglin with some issues cause of it. although that's a bit of a sidetrack. 

 

anyway. interesting test. We really are just animals.

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Permalink Reply by Muhammed Gouda on July 17, 2011 at 12:26am

Hmmm This Proves That The Cult Of Personality can be done through peer pressure.
Hell I'm seeing it with my own eyes :D

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Permalink Reply by The Shiznit on July 18, 2011 at 4:05pm

I forgot all about the "Cult of Personality". Thanks for mentioning that - I'll add it to my list of reference links.  ;-)

And yeah, I see it all of the time, too. The use of media and government propaganda to mentally condition the masses into adopting belief systems that cannot be questioned w/o suffering enormous negative peer pressure.  Two superb examples that come immediately to my mind, are the ideas that our government and our culture are the best ones on the planet; and the idea that our soldiers are to be respected above the average citizen, as if  {or because} they are supposedly more noble & worthy of respect than the rest of us; which is bullshit.  If you openly question ideas like that, you will not get invited to a lot of parties.  I mean, the majority of people in this country will criticize you, insult you, or ostracize you for expressing an opinion that is contrary to those ideas; and some of them may even want to stone you!  heh

Shit pisses me off.  :-)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_religion

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Permalink Reply by Michael Scaife on July 17, 2011 at 3:00am

This is all fun and laughter with silly candid pranks but this sort of situation get's a lot more serious when people's suffering is involved.

I don't like movie references but the movie kick-ass demonstrates how human nature will allow people to suffer and nobody wants to break away from the trend of sitting still and doing nothing to help people just beacuase it's what's around them, social conformity sucks.#

 

p.s good topic shiz

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Permalink Reply by Beanow on August 3, 2011 at 8:44am

Been testing the elevator thing at work and it's hilarious :P

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Permalink Reply by Christian Haupt on September 13, 2011 at 2:04am

That's really interesting. I'm really surprised people would do this. I guess even I would probably do something along the same lines prior to understanding this.

 

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Permalink Reply by Craig Yang on September 18, 2011 at 2:12am

I think most of us do it all the time, albeit subconsciously

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