Tag: culture
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Cultural Scapegoating
Scapegoating is a behavioural phenomenon of people finding, consciously or subconsciously, an external guilty party for a number of things, ranging from weather phenomena to their own anger and anxiety to there and then problems in their environment (abusive behaviour, social inequality or perceptions of inequality – such as claimed or actual persecution -, a…
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Culture Shock
Today, our topic is culture shock. Recently, I have been thinking about culture shock a lot. I’ve seen a lot of world thus far in my life, have lived in several countries and have had a chance to observe some pretty unique behaviours. And yet, I’ve never really suffered from the infamous culture shock. Instead,…
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Attack of the Machines – Fear, Prejudice and Progress
Introduction Whether it was an black and white film such as Metropolis, a mid- or late twentieth century classic such as the Terminator films, Westworld (1973) and Death Machine (1994) or a modern thriller or horror such as RoboGeisha (2009), we have all seen it – the humanity effectively destroying itself through inventing technology, and that…