tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40957175702887826532024-03-16T02:09:51.292+01:00Diversity is beautifulBy Maryam Laura Moazedi - Her blog is on both diversity management - which mainly comprises managing age, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and disability at the workplace - and aspects of diversity that are not (directly) linked to work. There is a vast range of concepts that is related to this issue, such as discrimination, ethnocentrism, prejudices, etc. And there are a lot of positive connotations once we successfully manage to interact appropriately.M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.comBlogger1573125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-12822343118552555742024-03-13T08:39:00.004+01:002024-03-13T10:12:15.797+01:00Analysing 3,000 AI-Generated Images, Finding (Almost) As Many Ethnic Stereotypes<p>Last year, <i>Rest of World</i> analysed 3,000 images created by AI and came to the conclusion that the images created were highly stereotypical.</p><p>
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</a></p><p></p><blockquote>Using Midjourney, we chose five prompts, based on the generic concepts of “a person,” “a woman,” “a house,” “a street,” and “a plate of food.” We then adapted them for different countries: China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Nigeria. We also included the U.S. in the survey for comparison, given Midjourney (like most of the biggest generative AI companies) is based in the country.
For each prompt and country combination (e.g., “an Indian person,” “a house in Mexico,” “a plate of Nigerian food”), we generated 100 images, resulting in a data set of 3,000 images.</blockquote><p>When prompting Midjourney to create "an Indian person", 99 out of 100 images depicted a man, almost all of them clearly aged over 60 with grey or white hair. 92 of the subjects wore a traditional type of turban, a great many of them resembled a spiritual guru. Similarly, "a Mexican person" was - in 99 out of 100 cases - a person wearing a sombrero. </p><p>When creating "an American person", national identity was portrayed by showing the US-American flag in 100 out of 100 images, while <i>"none of the queries for the other nationalities came up with any flags at all". </i>Across all countries, there was a gender bias with "a person" mostly being a man - with one exception. Interestingly, the results for "an American person" included 94 young women, five men and one masked individual (see image in this posting). The reason for the overrepresentation of women when creating "an American person" could be the overrepresentaion of young women in US media which again build the basis for the AI's training data (<a href="https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-image-stereotypes/">via</a>).</p><p>- - - - - - -<br />image (AI) <a href="https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-image-stereotypes/">via</a></p><p></p>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-8196004219817528082024-03-07T08:15:00.000+01:002024-03-07T08:15:17.138+01:00"What do you think is the most interesting development in dance music these days?" Asking Armand van Helden."The development has been acceptance. If you would have told me in, lets say the year 1998 that in the future, Dance Music (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWhtcU4-xAM">WATCH/LISTEN: Barbra Streisand</a>) would be at the forefront of all pop music I wouldn’t have believed you. Back then we had some much going against us: “its not radio friendly, its (sic) gay music, where are the vocals?, there is no real song here, if its not rap, R&B or rock we don’t support it, disco sucks, this isn’t “real music”, where are the musicians?” and on and on. <div><br /></div><div>
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</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Its astounding how all of that has gone by the wayside and the youth doesn’t care about any of that at all. There will always be your critics but personally I love it, the youth are supposed to aggravate the elders, thats evolution baby! In life, were all here to dance. I think its wonderful that genre smashing has become the future and everybody just wants to dance together."<div><a href="https://spinninrecords.com/news/2016/08/23/exclusive-interview-armand-van-helden-no-goals-just-refinement-being-in-the-moment">Armand van Helden</a>, Duck Sauce<br /><br /></div><div>- - - - - - - - - - - <br />image (Duck Sauce) <a href="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zlly-DkHwE8/maxresdefault.jpg">via </a></div></div>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-54916297940139140632024-03-06T11:00:00.000+01:002024-03-06T11:00:02.381+01:00"Has being a queer artist become more significant than before?" Asking Andrew Butler.What’s amazing is going to places where people don’t have the same liberties that we have or even in parts of the Western world where certain legislations have passed that seem very backward. It’s amazing to see young people in the audience respond to the music and afterward having them tell us that it means the world to them that we came and played this music. It means something that we’re up on the stage playing the songs we’re playing because it helps them find the strength to be who they are. The music encourages them on a daily basis, they feel proud, they don’t feel alone.<div><div><br /></div><div>
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</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Superb:</div><div><b>::: </b>Hercules and Love Affair: Blind (<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=hercules+and+love+affair+blind&sca_esv=c36154a2d2ecdf1d&biw=2133&bih=1087&tbm=vid&sxsrf=ACQVn09haXG1rT-WF7AWojFr1sDJUFbZ0Q%3A1709635066602&ei=-vXmZcGyJPevi-gPu6-fkAY&oq=hercules+and+love+affair+&gs_lp=Eg1nd3Mtd2l6LXZpZGVvIhloZXJjdWxlcyBhbmQgbG92ZSBhZmZhaXIgKgIIADIKEAAYgAQYFBiHAjIKEAAYgAQYFBiHAjIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgoQABiABBiKBRhDMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgARIziJQwwlYwwlwAHgAkAEAmAGxA6AByQWqAQcyLTEuMC4xuAEByAEA-AEBmAICoALhBZgDAIgGAZIHBzItMS4wLjGgB5YN&sclient=gws-wiz-video#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:09008823,vid:2RsfGJsax9E,st:0">LISTEN</a>)</div><div><br /></div><div>
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We’ve played quite a few shows in Russia which looks like a really inhospitable place for queer people, but we have packed houses of young, queer people and I think it is an important role. With that said I do think this record in some ways is about not just focusing on my own specific identity, but rather talking about getting to the core of our humanity, and talking about parts that all of us should be concerned about.<div><br /></div>
There are issues that are quite significant and pressing that the whole world is facing. We’re looking at horrible things happening to the planet, terrifying wars taking place that are displacing enormous amounts of people, there are famines that make people become refugees, we’re looking at people parading around, pounding on their Bibles or Qurans, or whatever book of knowledge they might be carrying, saying they know the way everyone should live. They’re saying certain people are abominations or have no rights, hundreds of years of oppression in the US are affecting race relations. Hundreds of things are happening outside of one specific identity, they’re beyond me as a queer person, they speak to all of us as humans.
In the record, I talk about our souls and what we’re supposed to achieve while we’re here. Perhaps we’re supposed to connect to each other, find alliances, and it’s really hard to find allies or to adequately show up as an ally. Perhaps the voices of people who have historically been silenced need to be heard. They might have solutions for some of the bigger problems we’re all having. It’s been a long time coming, but it would be great to see a woman in power, perhaps a woman of color, or a transgender woman of color in power. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.popmatters.com/are-you-still-certain-an-interview-with-hercules-love-affair-2495377693.html">Andrew Butler, Hercules and Love Affair</a></div><div><br /></div><div>- - - - - - - - - - - - - -</div><div>photographs of Andy Butler <a href="https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/max_1200/aa37c628737255.55cf906aaa70c.jpg">via</a> and <a href="https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/max_1200/884ae328737255.55cf906aa90eb.jpg">via</a> </div>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-35635766185646043912024-03-05T11:22:00.001+01:002024-03-05T11:23:04.042+01:00Sugary Drink Consumption & Ethnicity<p>In 2013, a campaign was launched in the United States, to reduce sugary drink consumption aiming to fight child obesity. From 2012 to 2017, 13.000 middle school students were surveyed about their consumption of sugary drinks (soda, fruit drinks, sport drinks, energy drinks, flavoured waters and teas). Ethnicity and neighbourhood environment (number of unhealthy food retailers close to their schools) were also collected.</p><p>
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</a></p><p>While, generally speaking, the percentage of students consuming sugary drinks on a daily basis had dropped from 2012 (49%) to 2017 (37%), daily sugary drink consumption remained higher among Black (59%) and Hispanic (49%) students compare to white (33%) and Asian ((23%) students. </p><p>According to previous research, Black and Hispanic youth are targets of marketing campaigns. Ethnicity and neigbourhood food environments need to be considered when addressing sugary drink consumption since structural racism in the built environment can play a major role in terms of young people's drinking behaviour (<a href="https://today.uconn.edu/2021/08/racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-sugary-drink-consumption-exacerbated-by-exposure-to-neighborhood-fast-food-and-convenience-stores/#">via</a>).</p><p>- - - - - - -<br />photograph (New York, 1980s) <a href="https://www.vintag.es/2022/02/1980s-new-york-portraits.html">via</a></p>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-90465969241774037292024-02-21T16:36:00.000+01:002024-02-21T16:36:06.462+01:00The Numbers Shouldn't Matter<p><i>"Of course, everyone would like to stay 35 forever, and in my mind I kind of do. But I can't get caught in that trap of thinking, 'I've got to do this or that.' The way I live, the way I work, the way I feel, I'm going to make every moment count. I may live to be 100 or I may die tomorrow, but whenever that is, I will know I died trying, and I will know I've done everything I could to make the most of everything. As long as I stay healthy, the numbers shouldn't matter. I don't feel my age, I don't work my age, I don't think my age, and hopefully, I don't look my age!"</i><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dolly-parton-doesnt-want-to-be-younger-2023-1#:~:text=%22I%20don't%20feel%20my,her%20%22best%20work%22%20then.">Dolly Parton</a></p><p>
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</a></p><p>photograph of Dolly Parton (1973) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=988392199310940&set=a.321576999325800">via</a></p>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-18550006927155414792024-02-17T18:46:00.000+01:002024-02-17T18:46:15.577+01:00What is driving ageism in everyday life?..."I think there are a number of factors that are driving it. So they're both structural factors and individual factors. So the structural factors include age segregation. So in our country, we've gone from being one of the most age-integrated cultures/countries in the world to one of the most age-segregated cultures in the world. And we know that ageism can lead to the age segregation. And then, age segregation can, in turn, increase the ageism. <div><br /></div><div>
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<br /><div><br /></div><div>We also know that there are a number of industries that profit from ageism and negative age stereotypes and negative age beliefs. So I had a professor who once said to me that when you want to try to understand what's happening in a society, you should look to see who profits. And we know that there are companies, such as in advertising, in social media and also in the anti-aging industry, which generate a trillion dollars together of profits in part by denigrating aging and creating a fear around aging. </div><div><br /></div><div>Which creates a desire, they believe, to go out and take on these products that actually battle aging or have this advertising campaign around aging as being something that we should fear and try to overcome, and it's something that's negative in our society. So those are some of the structural factors. </div><div><br /></div><div>And in terms of the individual factors, we know that there are aspects of how individuals take in age beliefs. So we know that children as young as age three take in the age beliefs of their culture. We know that then they're reinforced over time. And we also know that they can operate without our awareness. They can operate implicitly. So that's another way that ageism has increased and seems to be quite prevalent today."</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA8uH8rpjWWDM17H8LAhzUthMtXwl7jszSYS3RfhZ6woH21W-mci_s-T4__iTIuJzZXLH7s_rSpYP84q47kiFutplv8V5u5E032k7-u42Y9PRe-NBjBtpozUMF_i0-J417IOROugkYW9nuedysnyDux4FvK9Y4-pybIL3QFtFaFhVvkKyw4ZSxHpzCeA/s640/1980s-new-york.jpeg"></a><a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/population-care/how-positive-age-beliefs-can-support-positive-health-outcomes-becca">Becca Levy</a></div><div><br /></div><div>- - - - - - - - - - -</div><div>photograph (New York, 1980s) by Steven Siegel <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaqBWq6yRlpnCTyDuAkKkvuLURMIoXNN7s4nr4QQHbaF-X6zWj3FEjEiWDYWngywUSJHkXyTNszqdWXlu8ik-mqUKsg59Cx_UuK6lj_IqAye_tPlcM5Se1zT8pqzJb0Rb4aDruPLBY4fjDj-GEomwZOn1OIpJU1RBuQqI1FjtjMs8bjNUhu07kqj0X2g=w640-h572">via</a></div></div>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-71731409232115627372024-01-30T18:05:00.001+01:002024-01-30T18:05:39.237+01:00The Many Changing Meanings of "Snowflake"<p>In the early 1860s, the term "Snowflake" was used in Missouri to refer to a person who was opposed to the abolition of slavery. The so-called Snowflakes hoped that the civil war would not put an end to slavery and were contrasted with two other groups, the Claybanks (who wanted a gradual transition out of slavery) and the Charcoals (who demanded immediate emancipation for Black people). </p><p>
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</a></p><p>In the 1970s, snowflake became <i>"a disparaging term for a white man or for a black man who was seen as acting white".</i></p><p>Chuck Palahniuk used the expression in his book "Fight Club" published in 1996 in a different context. A member of an anti-consumerist project tells another member: <i>"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone, and we are all part of the same compost pile."</i> In its 1999 movie adaptation, the line goes like this:</p><p></p><blockquote>Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not the beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. We are all part of the same compost heap.</blockquote><p></p><p>Palahniuk was probably not the first person to use this metaphor, of each of us being a unique snowflake, uniquely beautiful and each worth treasuring (<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the-less-lovely-side-of-snowflake#:~:text=In%20Missouri%20in%20the%20early%201860s%2C%20a%20%22Snowflake%22%20was,contrasted%20with%20two%20other%20groups.">via</a>). Now snowflake is a slang term for a young person (the generation that became adults in or after the 2010s) with <i>"an inflated sense of uniqueness"</i>, a rather extreme sense of entitlement and who is easily offended and shows little resilience. Snowflake became <i>"the defining insult"</i> in 2016 (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_(slang)">via</a> and <a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/snowflake-generation">via</a>).</p><p>- - - - - - - -<br />photograph by Garry Winogrand <a href="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/5b/04/14/5b0414fa9bf1ee143abc15e4bc3c701a.jpg">via</a></p>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-84051706137115221622024-01-29T18:09:00.000+01:002024-01-29T18:09:15.715+01:00Every second person in the world ...<i>"Every second person in the world is believed to hold ageist attitudes."</i><div><a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/18-03-2021-ageism-is-a-global-challenge-un">World Health Organization</a></div><div><br /></div><div>
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</a></div><div><br /></div><div>photograph by Garry Winogrand <a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.iloveblackandwhitephotography.com/wp-content/uploads/MW-3-21-final-800.jpg?resize=800%2C536&ssl=1">via</a></div>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-246181246120443672024-01-15T13:29:00.001+01:002024-01-29T17:59:59.329+01:00The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism<i>Abstract:</i> Through an in-depth analysis of bestselling “how-to-succeed” books along with popular television shows and well-trafficked “mommy” blogs, The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism demonstrates how the notion of a happy work-family balance has not only been incorporated into the popular imagination as a progressive feminist ideal but also lies at the heart of a new variant of feminism. Embraced by high-powered women, from Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg to Ivanka Trump, this variant of feminism abandons key terms, such as equal rights and liberation, advocating, instead, for a life of balance and happiness. <div><br /></div><div>
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</a></div><div><br /></div><div>What we are ultimately witnessing, Catherine Rottenberg argues, is the emergence of a neoliberal feminism that abandons the struggle to undo the unjust gendered distribution of labor and that helps to ensure that all responsibility for reproduction and care work falls squarely on the shoulders of individual women. Moreover, this increasingly dominant form of feminism simultaneously splits women into two distinct groups: worthy capital-enhancing women and the “unworthy” disposable female “other” who performs much of the domestic and care work. This split, not surprisingly, transpires along racial, class, and citizen-immigrant lines. The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism thus underscores the ways in which neoliberal feminism forsakes the vast majority of women, while it facilitates new and intensified forms of racialized and class-stratified gender exploitation. Given our frightening neoliberal reality, the monumental challenge, then, is how we can successfully reorient and reclaim feminism as a social justice movement. (Rottenberg, 2018)</div><div><br /></div><div>- - - - - - - - - - - -<div>- Rottenberg, C. A. (2018). The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism; <a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/12386">link</a><br />- photograph by Garry Winogrand (Beverly Hills, 1979) <a href="https://cmoa-collection-images.s3.amazonaws.com/thing/103517/sizes/1021592_cropped-1680.jpg">via</a></div></div>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-76102878492482171682023-12-31T09:34:00.001+01:002024-02-02T13:19:16.687+01:00Party like there's no tomorrow ...<p>... but hopefully there will be many tomorrows and a future everybody can look forward to: old and young, no matter what class or financial status, no matter how able-bodied, what skin tone, gender, religion, no matter who they love... Wishing you all the best for 2024!</p><p>
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</a></p><p>photograph <a href="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/15/8b/e3/158be32ea4b865ab2c58b657e39bafcc.jpg">via</a></p>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-88928311371877330152023-12-30T10:03:00.000+01:002023-12-30T10:03:07.369+01:00Autoportraits. By Joy Gregory.<p>Joy Gregory is a British artist whose series "Autoportraits 1989-1990" consists of nine multiple selves. The series is a response to the lack of visibility of Black women in the British fashion industry, a lack she noticed when she was a teenager (Sealy 2005:203f).</p><p>
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</a></p><p></p><p>- Impressions Gallery (n.d.). Joy Gregory. Lost languages and other voices. Exhibition Guide, online.<br />- Sealy, M. A. (2005). <i>Decolonizing the Camera: Photography in Racial Time.</i> Thesis, Durham University.<br />- photographs by Joy Gregory <a href="https://www.artimage.org.uk/imageGen.ashx?image=/media/509208/joy-gregory-profile.jpg">via</a> and <a href="https://newlynartgallery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/from-Autoportrait-c-Joy-Gregory-1.jpg">via</a> and <a href="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af081ea372b9629b6acdb0a/1558119102792-6M1OB2TTIURUIPSWQGEH/5.-Joy-Gregory-Autoportrait.jpg?format=1500w">via</a></p>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-38293227106273716902023-12-27T17:05:00.001+01:002023-12-27T17:14:15.925+01:00"The freedom is being able to produce whatever you like."<i>"I remember when I was a student I was invited to participate in an exhibition which was about ‘Black art’. I sent my pictures in and they sent them back because they weren’t ‘Black enough’. They were interiors, because at that time that’s what I did – made pictures of interiors and still lifes. I was confused. I think, because of having grown up outside the metropolis, I wasn’t aware that my work needed to look or be a certain way. For me, it was really interesting because by building those walls around what you should and shouldn’t be, you’re doing exactly what people have decided you should be. The freedom is being able to produce whatever you like."</i><div><a href="https://www.artfund.org/explore/get-inspired/features/joy-gregory-and-hew-locke-on-history-and-the-high-seas">Joy Gregory</a></div><div><br /></div><div>
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</a></div><div><br /></div><div>photograph by Joy Gregory from her series "Autoportraits" <a href="https://dw4k6npnyoqvk.cloudfront.net/gregory-locke-7.jpg">via</a></div>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-51927078743962593412023-12-26T12:05:00.000+01:002023-12-26T12:05:49.160+01:00Trends in Loneliness Among Older Adults from 2018-2023<p>In January 2023, the <i>University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging</i> carried out a survey asking US-Americans aged fifty to eighty questions about loneliness. One in three adults (34%) reported feeling isolated from others, a greater proportion than the 27% in 2018. Among older adults the percentage was higher (37% compared to 34% in 2018). </p><p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgACVOtQgOHjlQH7A9CXG_Erb9NEQCEVMKpqXs8T09EAhx86bGfJiwqPM1fH669xz7rEuskbOruKJed0SD4Hf6bx7vwyR94JhOiMB7jmXSV0kbxpRfPIvwBOvxKQJj5emfGNqkF7rtSM9s1qNq0I07Br3yQXvFg9eD6_GO0pvTUWugI84hp6wiVcePyuw/s2000/winogrand_1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1336" data-original-width="2000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgACVOtQgOHjlQH7A9CXG_Erb9NEQCEVMKpqXs8T09EAhx86bGfJiwqPM1fH669xz7rEuskbOruKJed0SD4Hf6bx7vwyR94JhOiMB7jmXSV0kbxpRfPIvwBOvxKQJj5emfGNqkF7rtSM9s1qNq0I07Br3yQXvFg9eD6_GO0pvTUWugI84hp6wiVcePyuw/s700/winogrand_1.jpg" width="520" /></a></p><p>One in three older adults (33%) reported infrequent contact with people from outside their home (14% once a week, 10% every two to three weeks, 9% once a month or less). The feeling of isolation was much more common for those who reported fair or poor mental health (77% vs. 29% of those reporting good mental health). They were also more likely to report feeling a lack of companionship (73% of those with poor mental health vs 33% of those with better mental health). Lack of companionship was also more of an issue among people who were unemployed, lived alone or had an annual household income less than 60,000 dollars. Chronic loneliness can have a negative impact on mental and physical health, and on life expectancy (<a href="https://www.healthyagingpoll.org/reports-more/report/trends-loneliness-among-older-adults-2018-2023">via</a>).</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXEJej33Vx3ygHRhUyc5Q6949IngUqibGUJml8hGfPIDCUrN8ZMnTOOO4DZoZ3eDlzNNEiC6kYMXu6PGXRQ_9yXydUmx7x6D5kIhIvzSABI5brcRnlkAaZXRGiRmyshN8eej6h6sslNxbAju1nqQiBQh3D9h8bTJIKAIWIIGzEIXl318vjQeI-4Hw6Eg/s2000/winogrand_2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1338" data-original-width="2000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXEJej33Vx3ygHRhUyc5Q6949IngUqibGUJml8hGfPIDCUrN8ZMnTOOO4DZoZ3eDlzNNEiC6kYMXu6PGXRQ_9yXydUmx7x6D5kIhIvzSABI5brcRnlkAaZXRGiRmyshN8eej6h6sslNxbAju1nqQiBQh3D9h8bTJIKAIWIIGzEIXl318vjQeI-4Hw6Eg/s700/winogrand_2.jpg" width="520" /></a></p><p>- Malani P, Singer D, Kirch M, Solway E, Roberts S, Smith E, Hutchens L, Kullgren J. Trends in Loneliness Among Older Adults from 2018-2023. University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging. March 2023. Available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.7302/7011<br />- photographs by Garry Winogrand <a href="https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjEzOTQ4MSJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcXVhbGl0eSA5MCAtcmVzaXplIDIwMDB4MjAwMFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=54ff89e9c74ac421">via</a> and <a href="https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjEzOTcyMCJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcXVhbGl0eSA5MCAtcmVzaXplIDIwMDB4MjAwMFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=2c203badf9a710cb">via</a></p>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-48120488741248467452023-12-25T09:42:00.000+01:002023-12-25T09:42:27.482+01:00Empathy trumps prejudice: The longitudinal relation between empathy and anti-immigrant attitudes in adolescence<p><i>Abstract:</i> Although research has shown the effects of empathy manipulations on prejudice, little is known about the long-term relation between empathy and prejudice development, the direction of effects, and the relative effects of cognitive and affective aspects of empathy. Moreover, research has not examined within-person processes; hence, its practical implications are unclear. In addition, longitudinal research on development of prejudice and empathy in adolescence is still scarce. </p><p>
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</a></p><p>This 3-wave study of adolescents (N = 574) examined a longitudinal, within-person relation between empathy and anti-immigrant attitudes. The "standard" cross-lagged model showed bidirectional effects between empathic concern, perspective taking, and anti-immigrant attitudes. In contrast, the Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model showed that only perspective taking directly predicted within-person changes in anti-immigrant attitudes. Empathic concern predicted within-person changes in anti-immigrant attitudes indirectly, via its effects on perspective taking. No effects of anti-immigrant attitudes on within-person changes in empathy were found. The relations between empathic concern, perspective taking, and anti-immigrant attitudes were significant at the between-person level. In addition, the results showed changes in anti-immigrant attitudes and perspective taking and a change in empathic concern in mid- but not late adolescence. The results provide strong evidence for the effects of perspective taking on development of anti-immigrant attitudes in adolescence. They also suggest that the link between empathic concern and adolescents' anti-immigrant attitudes can be explained by indirect, within-person effects and by between-person differences. The findings suggest that programs aimed at reducing anti-immigrant attitudes in adolescence should work more closely with youth perspective taking and empathic concern. (Miklikowska, 2018)</p><p>- - - - - - - - - - -</p><p>- Miklikowska, M. (2018). Empathy trumps prejudice: The longitudinal relation between empathy and anti-immigrant attitudes in adolescence. <i>Developmental Psychology, 54(4)</i>, 703-717.<br />- photograph by Joseph Szabo <a href="https://64.media.tumblr.com/e231830f04f822c42617022d05d9d85b/940e8e531c8bed72-f6/s1280x1920/88c77e42f7308ad478e87b898670a4097788ad7e.jpg">via</a></p>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-48174087729229785102023-12-24T17:08:00.003+01:002023-12-24T17:08:56.652+01:00The Hardest Day of the Year<p>2.3 million older people in the United Kingdom wish they had someone to spend time with at Christmas. For 1.6 million people, Christmas is the hardest day of the year. According to Age UK, 1.3 million people will feel lonely this Christmas (<a href="https://www.ageuk.org.uk/latest-press/articles/2023/more-than-2-million-older-people-wish-they-had-someone-to-spend-time-with-at-christmas/">via</a>).</p><p>
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</a></p><p>photograph <a href="https://scontent-vie1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/410181619_770170225153851_8561837532294378309_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=3635dc&_nc_ohc=1YrFn2YQb8kAX8HMOyc&_nc_ht=scontent-vie1-1.xx&oh=00_AfBZAN7PvPQ936-csiGr93SPP2JvS7CGMMX8oDQ6JhUJQA&oe=658D0390">via</a></p>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-19583205277650591362023-12-23T12:15:00.001+01:002023-12-23T12:15:31.700+01:00Quoting Samuel L. Jackson<p><i>“When I grew up in segregation, I knew which white people didn’t want to be bothered with me, and I knew how they felt about me. When I see Trump, I see the same rednecks I saw when I was growing up … [who] tried to keep me in my place.” <br /></i><a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4059128-samuel-l-jackson-trump-same-rednecks-childhood/">Samuel L. Jackson</a></p><p>
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</a></p><p><i>The world seems to be in as hard a place as it’s always been. As a child of the ’60s, watching what happened at the 1968 Democratic Convention, and seeing the police beating those demonstrators — and those were young white kids — I learned there’s a certain kind of thing that the powers that be don’t want us doing. One of them is protesting what they think they want us to do. So when George Floyd happened, it was great to see all the different faces of kids out there fighting the injustice and what the power was doing once again to keep you from having an open mind or keep you from creating change that is not the change they want made. That part has not changed. In my opinion, it’s kind of worse. They used to hide it. Now, they don’t hide it anymore!”<br /></i><a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4059128-samuel-l-jackson-trump-same-rednecks-childhood/">Samuel L. Jackson</a></p><p>- - - - - - - - -<br />photograph <a href="https://cache.mrporter.com/content/images/cms/ycm/resource/blob/24275668/52f2f0d901f217a44c6a0c241a54b840/16-9-new-jpg-data.jpg/w1400_q80.jpg">via</a></p>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-79178497910336690802023-12-21T09:47:00.000+01:002023-12-21T09:47:23.110+01:00Age and Financial Abuse<p>While, in general, people of any age group can become victims of scamers, those over sixty are more vulnerable and people over 80 are extremely vulnerable. According to a study carried out in the United States in 2019, people aged 20 to 59 had lower median losses, people aged 70 to 79 suffered a median loss of 600 dollars and for people over 80, the median loss was 1,600 dollars. </p><p>
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</a></p><p>The scams most likely to be carried out are: online shopping scams (at least 14 million dollars lost), tech support scams (which stole 24 million dollars from victims over 60), imposter scams, romance scams (which hit a high of 304 million dollars in 2020; people ages 70plus have a median loss at 9,475 dollars), sweepstakes- and lottery-based scams (social media now accounts for one third of lottery scams) but also timeshare sale and resale scams (which conned over 30 million dollars total from people 60plus in 2019 alone), investments scams (25 million dollars) and health insurance scams (<a href="https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/elderly-financial-scam-statistics.html">via</a>).</p><p>- - - - - - - - - - - - -<br />photograph by Fred Herzog <a href="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/12/17/magazine/17mag-onphoto1/17mag-17onphoto-t_CA1-superJumbo.jpg">via</a></p>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-43260026520349446992023-12-16T13:41:00.000+01:002023-12-16T13:41:04.836+01:00Ageism in Marriage and Family Therapy<p><i>Abstract:</i> The paucity of literature addressing mental health issues concerning geriatric populations represents the perpetuation of ageist practices and beliefs in the field of marriage and family therapy. The purpose of this study was to assess whether client age and clinical training relate to the evaluation of couples who present for conjoint therapy. Written vignettes describing two couples, one older and one younger, who report issues involving the absence of sexual intimacy, increased frequency of arguments, and increased use of alcohol were evaluated by practicing marriage and family therapists, therapists-in-training, and individuals with no clinical background. </p><p>
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</a></p><p>It was hypothesized that respondents' views would vary in connection with the age of the couple and with the three levels of participant training. Results indicate that client age and participant training are associated with perceptions of individual and couple functioning. Our findings suggest that the relational and mental health concerns experienced by elder couples are not perceived as seriously as are identical concerns experienced by younger couples. Contrary to our expectations the observed differences between views of the two age conditions did not significantly differ between levels of participant training. Training and experience in marriage and family therapy may not significantly mitigate vulnerability to age-discrepant views. (Ivey, Wieling & Harris, 2000)</p><p>- - - - - - - - - -<br />- Ivey, D. C., Wieling, E. & Harris, S. M. (2000). Save the Young - the Elderly Have Lived Their Lives: Ageism in Marriage and Family Therapy. <i>Family Process, 39(2)</i>, 163-175.<br />- photograph by Gabriele and Helmuth Nothelfer <a href="https://www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org/_thumbnails_/5/2080_02_Kundgebung-Tag-der-Deutschen-Einheit_600dpi.jpg">via</a></p><div class="loa-wrapper loa-authors hidden-xs desktop-authors" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1d1e; font-family: "Open Sans", icomoon, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.9375rem 0px;"><div class="accordion" id="sb-1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="comma__list" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div></div>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-43918456759671919472023-12-15T11:49:00.000+01:002023-12-15T11:49:10.823+01:00The Battle of Lewisham<p>The <a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/nfrise">National Front</a> (NF), a far-right British party, reached the height of electoral support in the mid-1970s. In 1977, they announced the organisation of a so-called "Anti-Mugging March" from New Cross to Catford, passing through multicultural Lewisham. The march was announced after the arrest of Black people in Lewisham whose homes had been raided by the police in connection with a series of muggings over the months before. </p><p>
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</a></p><p>As a reaction, the <i>All Lewisham Campaign Against Racsm and Fascism</i> organised counter-demonstrations for the same day since all attempts to have the march banned had failed. </p><p>
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</a></p><p>On 13 August 1977, hundreds of NF members assembled, so did thousands of local people and community leaders to hold a peaceful counter-march. The police tried to reroute the NF but faced forceful opposition. Counter-demonstrators clashed with police and it was the first time that the Metropolitan Police employed riot shields in mainland Britain (<a href="https://www.huckmag.com/article/the-defiant-spirit-of-the-battle-of-lewisham-in-photos">via</a> and <a href="https://www.gold.ac.uk/history/research/battle-of-lewisham/what-was-the-battle-of-lewisham/">via</a> and <a href="https://www.gold.ac.uk/history/research/battle-of-lewisham/what-was-the-battle-of-lewisham/">via</a>).</p><p>
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</a></p><p>Photographer Syd Shelton documented the events. He is also happens to be the photographer who documented the <i>Rock Against Racism</i> movement</p><p></p><blockquote>It was about intimidating and frightening people just as the Nazis had done in the streets of Germany in the 1930s.<br /><a href="https://www.huckmag.com/article/the-defiant-spirit-of-the-battle-of-lewisham-in-photos">Syd Shelton</a></blockquote><p>
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</a></p><a href="https://www.huckmag.com/article/the-defiant-spirit-of-the-battle-of-lewisham-in-photos"></a><p></p><p><i>"Police motorbikes were set on fire and the police responded with truncheons. There’s <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/shelton-new-cross-road-lewisham-london-13-august-1977-p14374">one photograph where the horses are coming towards me</a> – I was knocked over to the ground but still had the camera in my hand so I kept going."</i><br /><a href="https://www.huckmag.com/article/the-defiant-spirit-of-the-battle-of-lewisham-in-photos">Syd Shelton</a></p><p>
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</a></p><p><i>"It was a violent day, but there was also a degree of triumph because the people were not going to take it anymore. More than 200 people were arrested but nobody really cared because they felt like they had nothing to lose and everything to gain. It’s the most incredibly empowering feeling to come together in huge numbers and feel you can actually change the world — because if you don’t things can do in the opposite direction."</i><br /><a href="https://www.huckmag.com/article/the-defiant-spirit-of-the-battle-of-lewisham-in-photos">Syd Shelton</a></p><p>- - - - - - - - - -<br />photographs by Syd Shelton (of Darcus Howe) <a href="https://collectionimages.npg.org.uk/long/mw304579/Darcus-Howe-Anti-National-Front-Demonstration-Lewisham.jpg">via</a> and <a href="https://www.huckmag.com/article/the-defiant-spirit-of-the-battle-of-lewisham-in-photos">via</a> and by Chris Schwartz <a href="https://www.gold.ac.uk/media/images-by-section/research-and-enterprise/Chris-Schwartz-3-A3.jpg">via</a> and by John Hodder <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2017/aug/12/flares-and-fury-the-battle-of-lewisham-1977">via</a> and by Syd Shelton again <a href="https://www.huckmag.com/article/the-defiant-spirit-of-the-battle-of-lewisham-in-photos">via</a></p>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-85234557524615283182023-12-14T09:55:00.001+01:002023-12-14T09:55:03.343+01:00Empathy Museum: A Mile in My Shoes<p>In 2015, a series of art installations began aiming to help increase empathy through storytelling and dialogue: the Empathy Museum. The offices are in London while the museum does not have a permanent location; the temporary installations travel internationally (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy_Museum">via</a>). One of the projects is <a href="https://www.empathymuseum.com/a-mile-in-my-shoes/">"A Mile in My Shoes"</a>, a giant shoebox with shoes and audio stories inviting visitors to walk a mile in someone else's shoes and to <i>"expore our shared humanity"</i> (<a href="https://www.empathymuseum.com/a-mile-in-my-shoes/">via</a>).</p><p></p><blockquote>From a Syrian refugee to a sex worker, a war veteran to a neurosurgeon, visitors are invited to walk a mile in the shoes of a stranger while listening to their story. The stories cover different aspects of life, from loss and grief to hope and love and take the visitor on an empathetic as well as a physical journey.</blockquote><p></p><p>
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</a></p><p>The other projects of the Empathy Museum are "A Thousand and One Books", "Human Library" and "From Where I'm Standing".</p><p><i>"empathy is the art of stepping imaginatively into the shoes of another person, understanding their feelings and perspectives, and using that understanding to guide your actions"</i><br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/40236463-empathy-why-it-matters-and-how-to-get-it">Roman Krznaric</a>, founder of Empathy Museum</p><p><i>"What all stereotyping has in common, whether it is a product of politics, religion, nationalism, or other forces, is an effort to dehumanize, to erase individuality, to prevent us from looking someone in the eye and learning their name. The consequence is to create a culture of indifference that empathy finds difficult to penetrate."</i><br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/40236463-empathy-why-it-matters-and-how-to-get-it">Roman Krznaric</a>, founder of Empathy Museum</p><p><i>"Highly empathic people are engaged in a constant search for what they share with other people, even when those people appear alien to them."</i><br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/40236463-empathy-why-it-matters-and-how-to-get-it">Roman Krznaric</a>, founder of Empathy Museum</p><p><i>"Empathy is a constant awareness of the fact that your concerns are not everyone’s concerns and that your needs are not everyone’s needs, and"</i><br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/40236463-empathy-why-it-matters-and-how-to-get-it">Roman Krznaric</a>, founder of Empathy Museum</p><p>- - - - - - - - - -<br />photograph of Ringo and his boots (1971) <a href="https://64.media.tumblr.com/92eb528e5147c8af659d55ca888618ce/tumblr_n84198rr8L1snb6qwo1_1280.jpg">via</a></p>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-23198169216471084262023-12-06T21:40:00.000+01:002023-12-06T21:40:21.672+01:00Cutting All of Society's Traditional Classifications<p><i>"Ageism is distinct from all other forms of discrimination because it cuts all of society's traditional classifications: gender, race, religion and national origin."</i><br />Nuessel, 1982 (quoted in Kramer, 2003)</p><p>
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</a></p><p>- Kramer, U. (2003). AGEISMUS - Zur sprachlichen Diskriminierung des Alters.<br />- photograph by Joel Meyerowitz <a href="https://www.blind-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/joel-meyerowitz-revisits-his-1983-classic-wild-flowers-en.jpg">via</a></p>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-16619731260046609392023-12-02T20:42:00.003+01:002023-12-02T20:42:51.045+01:00Quoting Lauren Hutton<p><i>“I don’t believe your looks go. I intend to be one of the best-looking old ladies that anybody’s ever seen and if that happens to me, then that means I had a good life.”</i><br /><a href="https://fb.watch/oHgwkdonbH/">Lauren Hutton</a>, 1974</p><p>
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</a></p><p>photograph <a href="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a50de7e4b091074c1bd3ce/1445306447714-RX56WJ6FAOAACE4QB2LV/image-asset.jpeg">via</a></p>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-86773743799980619102023-11-21T11:18:00.000+01:002023-11-21T11:18:54.603+01:00Voyages: Hélène Amouzou's Self-Portraits and the Stages of InvisibilityWhen I arrived in Brussels from Togo, I had to go through the bureaucracy that migrants face but had no citizenship papers and no right to stay, which meant I couldn’t look for work. So I had to stay at home without any kind of assistance. I began going to church and met a woman there with a background in video editing who offered to train me in video and film production. I lost contact with her after she left church but I wanted to learn more. Eventually, I found a college, the Sint-Jans-Molenbeek Academy of Drawing and Visual Arts in Brussels, where I could study film and photography. (...) I soon discovered my creative path and maximised the technical and creative potential of analogue photography.
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I clearly recall the first photograph I ever took. From that first photo, my focus was always on producing work for myself and not for public show. In fact, one of the requirements for this three-year course was to produce a self-portrait to be judged before course assessors. Even then, I didn’t want my face to be seen so just took a photo of my body and kept myself anonymous. But the assessors encouraged me to have a more candid approach and share my story. As I progressed with the course, a teacher remarked on the quality of my work and encouraged me to approach a Brussels gallery to exhibit my pictures. But I felt uncomfortable – I was quite shy at the time. Even after the exhibition, I didn’t pursue other exhibitions because I wasn’t ready to share my personal story with the world. But I guess the transition had already occurred.
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</a></div><div><br /></div><div>(...) I didn’t have the official papers that gave me the right to stay in Belgium so I felt I was always on a journey. I had a child with me yet couldn’t give her safety, security, a home or an identity. Indeed, I do have an identity but in Europe and Belgium I just feel like a nobody. I feel I am on this constant journey to find acceptance and in search of somewhere to settle down and find peace. So the pictures I create are documenting this journey to a place where you can just be yourself and don’t need ID cards and papers and can just exist as a human being.</div><div><br /></div><div>
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(...) I feel invisible. I feel like I don’t exist. Yes, I have family connections – I have left family behind in Togo but here in Europe I am alone. On the streets of Belgium, no one really sees me and this is a very personal pain. It’s difficult to share and describe so I document it creatively through my photographs.<div><br /></div>
Self-portraiture is a way of writing without words. My aim is to reveal the deepest parts of myself.<br /><a href="https://www.whatshotlondon.co.uk/helene-amouzou-voyages/">Hélène Amouzou</a><div><br /></div><div>
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</a></div><div><br /></div><div>photographs <a href="https://i0.wp.com/thewomensdarkroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/6_Autoportrait_Grenier-Molenbeek_prise-de-vue-2009printed-2022_Pigment-print-on-archival-Hahnemuhle-photo-rag-paper.jpg?fit=1030%2C1030&ssl=1">via</a> and <a href="https://media.scotiabankcontactphoto.com/2023/03/MetroHall_2023_HeleneAkouaviAmouzou_Autoportrait_11_Auto_Sophies-House_2017_web-scaled.jpg?size=900x900">via</a> and <a href="https://autograph.org.uk/content/images/editorimages/a%20-%20new%20structure/blog/2023/h%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne%20amouzou/ha-edit-3.jpg">via</a> and <a href="https://64.media.tumblr.com/790acfc4e560d348bef1332c93aaf4af/tumblr_mnu76lOYGj1s5qs0yo7_1280.jpg">via</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/stephen.ellcock/posts/pfbid0dDapyi2uCLaeVvEcWbvL23QT6HNeJzh8UzWdRMskSGGe4LJ23PvGwqREeR4idNLGl">via</a> </div></div>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-59568080175961864682023-11-20T13:51:00.004+01:002023-11-20T13:51:56.163+01:00Which Statements Are Antisemitic And Islamophobic? On Differences in Sensitivity.<p>Hargreaves and Staetsky (2019) analysed differences between British Jewish and Muslim respondents in terms of sensitivity towards antisemitism and Islamophobia. Statements designed to reflect antisemitic attitudes were shown to ca. 1,500 Jewish people living in the U.K., and statements designed to be Islamophobic were shown to 1,000 Muslims (<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2019.1682177">via</a> and <a href="https://theconversation.com/researchers-asked-2-500-jewish-and-muslim-people-what-they-find-offensive-heres-what-they-said-127485">via</a>).</p><p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvS_4yntj8lphW1-a2RbPAjM0KPQ6T8T6zvyEIQUjaLp8XA1zyhyphenhyphen9hoKioFoz06_1tlQb4nbBKcmvrTaCntbW9lsYSgQsj559LLaDeluzwm9u7c0lebAimWmugbCX1yIjuB9nK3N7SYFZbxZYovvWV0263Vqe5HoiwVo6kwcB3Omtj1OprZ3Or0E9sww/s554/london_1970s.png"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvS_4yntj8lphW1-a2RbPAjM0KPQ6T8T6zvyEIQUjaLp8XA1zyhyphenhyphen9hoKioFoz06_1tlQb4nbBKcmvrTaCntbW9lsYSgQsj559LLaDeluzwm9u7c0lebAimWmugbCX1yIjuB9nK3N7SYFZbxZYovvWV0263Vqe5HoiwVo6kwcB3Omtj1OprZ3Or0E9sww/s700/london_1970s.png" width="520" /></a></p><p>a) Attitudes towards Jews</p><p>Israelis behave "like Nazis" towards the Palestinians<br />Does not consider Jews living in the UK to be British<br />Jews are not capable of integrating into British society<br />The interests of Jews in the UK are very different from the interests of the rest of the population<br />Jews have too much power in British economy, politics, media<br />The Holocaust is a myth or has been exaggerated</p><p>b) Attitudes towards Muslims</p><p>Most Muslims sympathise with terrorists<br />British Muslims do not share western values<br />British Muslims have no interest in integrating into British society<br />The interests of Muslims in Britain are very different from the interests of the rest of the population<br />Muslims have too much influence in Britain<br />Muslims often overreact to criticism of their religion</p><p>- - -</p><p>Within the Jewish group, there was more certainty about what constituted antisemitism. Only 1% to 3% of Jewish respondents chose "don't know" for the antisemitic statements while 15% to 22% of Muslim respondents answered "don't know" when the Islamophobic statements were presented.</p><p>The groups also differed in their sensitivity. The most offensive anti-Jewish statement was the one about the Holocaust being a myth or exaggerated (96% of Jews agreed it was antisemitic). Large absolute majorities (82% to 94% of the Jewish respondents) perceived other statements as antisemitic, The smallest absolute majority (73%) was observed when presenting the description of Isrealis being Nazi-like towards Palestinians. <i>"In stark contrast, none of the statements about attitudes towards Muslims were seen as Islamophobic by a majority of Muslim respondents."</i></p><p>In addition, age was a factor in the Jewish group whereas it was of no significance in the Muslim group. Jewish respondents aged over 40 were 80% to 90% more likely to be sensitive to antisemitism than those aged between 18 and 39. The authors explain the findings with the role of memory around the Holocaust and events in the 1940s and 1960s, and pivotal events shaping Islamophobia taking place in the 1990s and more recently. <i>"When it comes to British Muslims and Islamophobia, perhaps the present matters more than the past."</i></p><p>Being born in the U.K. had an impact in both groups. Jewish respondents born in the U.K. were 40% less likely to be sensitive to the linking of Israelis and Nazis than those born in other European countries. UK-born Muslims respondents, however, were more or less twice as likely as those born in Asia to be sensitive to all Islamophobic statements. The authors speculate that the present conditions in the U.K. might be more likely to shape sensitivity towards Islamophobia than antisemitism. The study was carried out before the Hamas attack on Israel on 7th of October, findings might differ now.</p><p></p><blockquote>Education played an important role for both groups, but seemed to push sensitivity in opposite directions. Muslim respondents with degrees were 63% more likely to find all statements offensive. They were 70% more likely to be sensitive about Muslims not sharing western values. By contrast, Jewish respondents with degrees were 35% less likely than those without to be sensitive towards the linking of Israelis and Nazis. Jewish respondents in education were 66% less likely than those in employment to be sensitive to all the statements. They were 56% less likely to be sensitive to the linking of Israelis and Nazis.</blockquote><p></p><p>The main conclusion of the study:</p><p></p><blockquote>The study shows that assuming all Jews and all Muslims react to antisemitism and Islamophobia in the same way is likely to be inaccurate.</blockquote><p>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - <br />- Hargreaves, J. & Staetsky, L. D. (2019). Antisemitism and Islamophobia: Measuring everyday sensitivity in the UK. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43(12).<br />- photograph (UK, 1970s) <a href="https://www.thamesmeadnow.org.uk/the-story/">via</a></p><p></p>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-24365512295070733872023-11-18T13:30:00.000+01:002023-11-18T13:30:34.620+01:00Minari (2020)<div>Minari is a film by - hyphenated - Korean-American filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung. The film is partly autobiographical and fully beautiful. </div><div><br /></div><div>
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</a></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><div>Watching films in which white families speaking English represented the American experience and growing up with a father who <i>"came to America believing in the romantic dream of what he saw in films like 'Big Country' and 'Giant' - this fertile land able to yield so much promise"</i> (<a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/lee_isaac_chung_1165553">via</a>), Lee Isaac Chung wanted to create something that transcends borders and feelings of national identity. And he certainly succeeded. Minari is <i>"about taming the soil, like so many westerns"</i>, a drama<i> "in an eminently American tradition". </i> At the same time, the language mainly spoken is Korean. This intersection led to some controversy when the movie's Golden Globes category was not<i> best film</i>, but <i>best foreign film</i> (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/07/lee-isaac-chung-minari-korea-arkansas-oscars">via</a>).</div><div><blockquote>While Minari is about immigrants arriving in an unfamiliar world, the film shows a light touch in its treatment of racial and cultural difference. The Yi children face what we would now call microaggressions from local kids, but these are presented as essentially benign in their cluelessness. This is true to his experience, Chung says. “I grew up feeling like the main obstacles that we were trying to overcome had more to do with how we survive together as a family, and less to do with external relationships that we had with the community. Racism did exist and I’ve experienced some horrific incidents, but when I think about those days, it’s more about farming and the difficulties of trying to love each other.” (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/07/lee-isaac-chung-minari-korea-arkansas-oscars">via</a>)</blockquote></div></div><div><i>"A lot of people have had good discussions about what it means to be American, and we need to broaden our definition."</i><div><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/lee_isaac_chung_1165621">Lee Isaac Chung</a></div><div><br /></div><i>"We grew up in rural Arkansas without any Koreans close by, and when I go to Korea feel out of place."</i><div><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/lee_isaac_chung_1165649">Lee Isaac Chung</a></div><div><br /></div><i>"Because growing up as an Asian-American and growing up as someone who is not white, oftentimes in this country you can feel as though you're a foreigner, or you're reminded of being a foreigner, even though you're not. Even though inside, internally, you feel completely American."</i><br /><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/lee_isaac_chung_1165637">Lee Isaac Chung</a></div><div><br /></div><div><i>"Growing up where I was, there were no Asians, no minorities, and there was always something to remind me of what I'm not. And when I go to Korea it's the same thing. I'm constantly reminded that I'm not Korean."</i><div><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/lee_isaac_chung_1165599">Lee Isaac Chung</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>
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</a></div><div><br /></div><i>"I like the idea of all of us looking at the world with less of an emphasis on national borders and with more of an emphasis on shared humanity."</i><div><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/lee_isaac_chung_1165561">Lee Isaac Chung</a></div><div><br /></div><i>
"A lot of times we have these categories that maybe don't fit the reality of human experience and human identity. I'm completely sympathetic to what a lot of people in my community are saying - that often as Asian Americans we're made to feel more foreign than we internally feel ourselves."</i><div><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/lee_isaac_chung_1165572">Lee Isaac Chung
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"I always tend to gravitate toward the idea of things being human: that this isolation I feel as an Asian American, even though it's real, other people have it too in their own way."</i><div><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/lee_isaac_chung_1165575">Lee Isaac Chung
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"I wanted to make something that transcends borders and gets beyond this feeling of national identity."</i><div><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/lee_isaac_chung_1165600">Lee Isaac Chung</a></div><div></div><div><div><br /></div>
</div><i>"Part of the fabric of America is that we have people from different countries who've come here and they are American, and yet they embrace their home ancestral culture. And this is their new home. And that's part of what makes this country unique in the history of human beings on this earth."
</i><div><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/lee_isaac_chung_1165638">Lee Isaac Chung
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"I hope that anyone facing or experiencing discrimination will, first of all, take to heart that this is not their fault, and they are not alone in this. Secondly, I hope they find ways to plug into communities to help prevent negative feelings of discrimination from festering."
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"Any time there is a film in a 'foreign language,' in Spanish or Korean or whatever language, it's usually not an American film. It's usually from another country."</i><div><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/lee_isaac_chung_1165639">Lee Isaac Chung
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"I grew up watching films of predominantly white families speaking in English, and that this represented the American experience."</i><div><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/lee_isaac_chung_1165646">Lee Isaac Chung
</a></div><div><br /></div><div>- - - - - - - - - - - -</div><div>images <a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYjNkZGJjNzItZmNlZi00YTNiLThhYTEtOTAyYmUzZjZiZDA1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTIwMTc4NzE1._V1_.jpg">via</a> and <a href="https://film-grab.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Minari-030.jpg">via</a> and <a href="https://film-grab.com/wp-content/uploads/photo-gallery/Minari_002.jpg?bwg=1621933415">via</a></div>M. Laura Moazedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305776539610516359noreply@blogger.com2