本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛My point is too negative, which might cause parents to reject me at the first place. What I want to say is that the world is not a perfect place. We face too many issues and problems everyday. Our children may have even stronger feelings than us about both sides of the world. They enjoy their everyday life and at the same time they suffer from the surrounding environment.
As adults, we are influenced by our automatic thinking (schemas---stereotypes). We couldn't immunize it. We group people as in-group and out-group. We exaggerate the similarities among members of an out-group. Even children, they do the same. As Chinese children, they are members of an out-group considered by White. So the positive side is that Chinese children are good at Math. The negative side is that once a member of Asian has made some kind of trouble, it generalizes to all the members in that group.
The cause of the person's behaviour was something about that person, not the situation, which is the way people explain others' behaviour. We attribute others failure to their own personality problems, not because the situation. And then we generalize it to their groups, if they are not in-group member.
That's the way people think sometimes. We need be clear about it. All I want to say is: We should pay close attention to our children's physical and mental health.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
As adults, we are influenced by our automatic thinking (schemas---stereotypes). We couldn't immunize it. We group people as in-group and out-group. We exaggerate the similarities among members of an out-group. Even children, they do the same. As Chinese children, they are members of an out-group considered by White. So the positive side is that Chinese children are good at Math. The negative side is that once a member of Asian has made some kind of trouble, it generalizes to all the members in that group.
The cause of the person's behaviour was something about that person, not the situation, which is the way people explain others' behaviour. We attribute others failure to their own personality problems, not because the situation. And then we generalize it to their groups, if they are not in-group member.
That's the way people think sometimes. We need be clear about it. All I want to say is: We should pay close attention to our children's physical and mental health.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net