Cultivating Connections
From the age of four, I was taught English by a Keralite (a person from the state of Kerala, India) lady. I was corporally punished for each mistake I committed. Somehow, subconsciously I had developed these winds that gained crescendo for negative bias toward keralites because of the twelve years of physical and mental abuse I faced. As Hanson (n.d) mentions,“The…
We need to build more connections between individuals and society before cultivating compassion. If we look at what happened in the past from a personal perspective, it is difficult for us to have a deep understanding of lives. In fact, just feeling sad for others’ experiences cannot solve the problem. We need to find out…
Implicit biases are unconscious beliefs or attitudes that we hold about certain groups of people. These biases are automatic and can influence our feelings, thoughts, behaviors, and actions without us even realizing it. In order words, implicit biases are like hidden beliefs we have about people that we might not even know we have. For…