“As early as the 1920s, researchers giving IQ tests to non-Westerners realized that any test of intelligence is strongly, if subtly, imbued with cultural biases… Samoans, when given a test requiring them to trace a route form point A to point B, often chose not the most direct route (the “correct” answer), but rather the most aesthetically pleasing one. Australian aborigines find it difficult to understand why a friend would ask them to solve a difficult puzzle and not help them with it. Indeed, the assumption that one must provide answers alone, without assistance from those who are older and wiser, is a statement about the culture-bound view of intelligence. Certainly the smartest thing to do, when face with a difficult problem, is to seek the advice of more experienced relatives and friends!”
— Jonathan Marks – Anthropology and the Bell Curve (via leofarto)
see also:
Psychology Is WEIRD (Western, educated, and from industrialized, rich, and democratic countries.): Western college students are not the best representatives of human emotion, behavior, and sexuality.
Something that doesn’t make it into the WEIRD acronym is the participants’ age. Sixty-seven percent of American psychology studies use college students, for example. This means that many or even most of the subjects are teenagers.
A lot of our testing methods have swarms of built-in biases.
For ppl asking why she’s an anti black, anti Semite. She has used the n word and compared her depression to the holocaust
Even not counting her poetry her private journals are full of disgusting, overblown antisemitism. She didn’t just use Jewish people for her metaphors, she outright hated them irl and yet decided to use their suffering for her own gain
okay, I’m Jewish and I appreciate this sentiment. and if someone wants to cut out Sylvia Plath, go for it, I get it.
But. by this logic we’d also need to stop reblogging TS Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Shakespeare quotes. Virginia Woolf wrote anti-semetic things in her private journals, too. If you only want to read classic poets who liked Jews and black people, that’s fine, but like. good luck? Sylvia Plath isn’t an exception.
idk. Tumblr’s attitude of “consume nothing problematic” just doesn’t work if you’re part of a group that most culture-creators over the last few centuries have hated by default. For people actually in those groups, it’s not like the only two choices are 1) worship authors who hate you or 2) completely cut the majority of literature out of your life. You learn to read critically and acknowledge flaws where you find them.
anyway, as a Jewish woman, I would much rather see a version of this post that said “please read Sylvia Plath poetry critically because she’s anti black and antisemetic” than just “stop reblogging Sylvia Plath poetry.”
IMO, reblog Sylvia Plath all you want, just not unthinkingly.
As another Jewish person, can I just add that the question I find it useful to ask is, “How antisemitic were they FOR THEIR TIME?” That’s why, eg, Shakespeare gets a pass from me, but I find it almost impossible to enjoy Roald Dahl’s work knowing that he once said, “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity… Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”
Personally speaking, I think the modernists are scattered either side of the borderline. Casual antisemitism was common but the virulence of Ezra Pound’s strain was unusual even back then.
they was really doing this at the march for our lives why take something that was specifically made for black people getting shot by cops and make it about school shootings it doesn’t even make sense
This is disappointing but it’s not surprising Black civil right movements is always repackaged and reformulated into something palatable as a blueprint for other non-black protests and disruptions and it is always a wildly disrespectful
People like the anon are irritating. As someone whose family (two parents, five children) were forcibly removed from Hawaii, re-located and incarcerated in Arkansas and then moved once again and again, incarcerated to California… kindly, shut the fuck up.
The internment of Germans in WWI and WWII included several thousand Germans – the majority were aliens and only small number were German-Americans. Only Italian aliens were arrested and held in military custody and this represented a few hundred individuals, in total. This was a system put in place in Germany as well where several thousand British and American civilians were interned at the outbreak of the war. The difference was there were no large numbers of resident aliens living in Italy and Germany at the time. But, it isn’t as if the detainment of “enemy aliens” or foreign citizens (of a hostile state) is without precedent. And typically, those who were taken into custody had a precedent for arrest (essentially, for most individuals, the US government was quite assured that they were helping/giving information to the Nazi or Fascist regimes in Germany and Italy).
The real difference is that that the wider German-American and Italian-American communities were not targeted in the way Japanese Americans were. There were some initial restrictions, some arrests and interrogations, a relatively small number of relocation orders, and a small number who were detained for a couple of years but no large-scale internment of an entire population. It was almost entirely restricted to alien/foreign nationals that posed a certain perceived risk. To further talk about the way Japanese-Americans were targeted, orphans under the age of 18 (most of whom were within the ages of 3 – 13) were also sent to the internment camp because they were a perceived threat. As I have already mentioned in implication, 2/3 of the Japanese and UNITED STATES BORN AMERICAN [FUCKING] CITIZENS of Japanese descent was interned during World War II SOLEY based on their shared ethnicity.
Not to mention the fucking racism that Japanese individuals had to face once they LEFT the incarceration camps. Unlike Italians and Germans who are European, Japanese people and families did not have the luxury of being able to PHYSICALLY ASSIMILATE into their environments or homes (if they were even able to return home).
P.S. It’s quite common for the Japanese-American community with internment history to talk about Germans and Italians. Especially some incarceration camps, such as Crystal City, were not purely for people of Japanese descent.
People like the anon desperately want Japanese-Americans to shut up about internment so they can do the exact same thing over again, except to different targets. And we’re not going to shut up.
Selena Gomez saying that “hashtags don’t save lives” about blm but then going all out for march for our lives and saying “ it’s not just a hashtag” says a lot about her character lmao. It’s very clear that these non black celebs only show out for certain people and movements. She’s rightfully being dragged on social media rn and turned off her comments because she knows she’s a hypocrite. Her captions are all like “ I don’t want this to be just an IG post anymore. PLEASE. ENOUGH. These people, families and CHILDREN suffered enough”. Bitch so did many black people. You think their families and friends aren’t suffering because they were unjustly killed? Fuck this fake ass, performative activism bullshit.
Some social work classmates
and I are conducting a study on the effects of racism and
discrimination on the mental health of the African American and Latino
communities. If you are African American and/or Latino, please take our
ANONYMOUS survey! Also, if you have African American and/or Latino friends,
please share this survey with them.. It is available in English and
70’s feminists: let’s celebrate our natural body hair! wahoo!
terfs, circa 2018: actually fuck hairy women no matter if they’re cis or trans as long as i can use body hair as an argument to insult trans women…. uhm what’s the racialization of ethnic traits to deny womanhood to woc and/or jewish women?
I went over there and played in the arcades, ate some good food, hung out with people who liked the same things i do at a concert, and took some great photos with them.
He went over and put on a kimono and conical hat, ran through the streets shouting ching chong, called it a playground, went to a forest and took video of dead bodies, and caused a minor international incident.
So yeah, i’m better than logan paul.
Reblog if you’re better than logan paul!
You have to try REALLY hard to do worse than Logan Paul at this point.
He still showed up ‘cause he knows he has to work twice as hard to be (considered) half as good. People need to realize this happens all of the time, every day, not just in the news. He’s lucky to be alive. I hope mom sues the crap out of them!
Please, help me raise awareness of the systematic racism. This must STOP.
#StayWoke
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This is for the white guy who asked me what privileges he has that Black folks don’t…here ya go jackass…
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