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Artdog Quote of the Week

"Other cultures are not failed attempts at being like you."

There are people in this world who don't see it that way. They can't look beyond their own frame of reference, and they resist seeing their own privilege, which simultaneously insulates them, and quarantines them from full participation with the rest of the world.

Sadly, they miss more than they know.

IMAGE: Many thanks to Quote Addicts for this image and quote. 

I hope you'll also check out Wade Davis's website. Davis is an anthropologist and author who works with National Geographic, so he really knows what he's talking about in this quote.

Artdog Image of Interest: Perception

How do you perceive others? Are first impressions colored by unconscious stereotypes, or tempered by experience?

I'm unfortunately familiar with the experience of seeing a group of individuals and realizing that my perception was radically different from those of the people I was with.

I'd see a group of teenagers who looked a lot like my students, while others would see a potentially dangerous and frightening gang.

I would see a group of people with long experience, while others saw only a bunch of boring old people.

I would see interesting people from other cultures with fascinating new ideas, while others saw only the strange, the exotic, or the bizarre.

"They're not like us," is too often a call to fear, not to embrace and explore and share. I'm just saying . . . Be careful who you stereotype. Instead, listen. Learn. Grow.

IMAGE: Many thanks to the "Social Justice" Pinterest Board.

Artdog Quote of the Week: What are You Looking For?

 

So . . . What do you expect to find?

IMAGE: Many thanks to the Dump A Day Blog.

Artdog Quote of the Week: Echoes

Ever wonder why they sometimes talk about an "echo chamber"?

It doesn't just apply to partisan politics. Question your echoes, and think clearly about which ones you heed.

IMAGE: Many thanks to the Dump a Day blog.