People's behavior is heavily dependent on how someone looks and in what situation. That is the point What Would You Do is trying to get across in the first video. In the bike thief video, the team compared how people would react to a white male, black male, and "pretty" girl. All of which were stealing a bike in separate scenarios. Some people questioned the white guy, some walked right by him, but no one tried to stop him. In the second scenario, people were swarming the black man almost immediately, and repeatedly. Most shocking off all was when people helped the girl for the shear fact that she is a girl. The problem is there are several variables that go into these situations. The show just lumps every human being into one category when in reality, human behavior way more complicated then that. Everyone has their own separate backgrounds and beliefs so they may react differently toward different situations. Who is to say that the first man to help the female thief would …show more content…
not have helped the male thieves as well. Furthermore who is to say that the people who stopped the black thief, who were at that park would not have stopped the white thief. One man said that he would have stopped the actor no matter what his skin color. But now that he knows that the situation is fake, there is no way to test if he was telling the truth. Another variable is the location. People can act differently based on where they are at. I noticed that a lot of the locations that they tested these situations in were largely populated by mostly white people. But they never ran these tests in an area where white people are the minority. Are we expected to believe that a person born and raised in the hills if Kentucky would act the same as someone from say, Las Angeles? Actually the demographics do not even have to be that far apart. Even in Lafayette, someone who lives on the south side could act completely different from someone who lives on the north side. So if they had changed the location for every scenario they might have gotten different statistics. But not only did they influence the outcome of the situations, but the producers also tried to influence how you reacted to the situations.
Now they did tell you the situation and how they would set it up. However, the music would change for certain individuals, and during certain actions to try and draw out emotion. Not only that but they only showed the footage that they wanted you to see. Would the parts that were edited out effect what you thought of the situation? I believe so. Now they did have some valid points about human behavior. With all the information on autism and the problems that come with it, I doubt that many people would condemn a child who was effected by it and i am sure that someone would stand up for said child should another person have a problem with that child. Also, I would hope that someone who witnessed a homeless person being harassed or even beaten, would step in to rescue them. Yet there is still the problem of who saw and where the homeless individual
was. I guess the biggest flaw in this shows that it gives the impression that everyone would act like the people involved. As if the venue represents all of the united states. The lens that you are looking through is so narrow that manipulation of what the audience perceives to be true is effortless. The amount of control they have over the situation is almost total. Ironically this makes the findings it less accurate due to the variables or a lack there of. If you simply pay attention to the message they are trying to push, the bias becomes blatantly obvious.
It was very interesting to learn that those who suffer from autism see the world very different from those who do not have autism. Their over sensitivity to sight and sound must be very difficult for them to deal with and does give good reasoning to their sudden outbursts as children. The over sensitivity to touch also, how frustrating to the parents of these children! This could be a sign of a child not feeling well or having some other type of medical illness so it is understandable how autism was commonly misdiagnosed in the early stages of learning about this medical problem.
The short documentary video “Prisoners of Silence” focuses on neurodevelopmental disorders with a clear emphasis on autism. It further delves into the rather controversial method of treatment for autism known as facilitated communication, which was first developed in the early 1990s. The video follows the introduction and ultimately the downfall of such a treatment as controversy quickly ensues after a series of sexual abuse cases and ample scientific evidence are produced.
Throughout his book, Mike Alsford provides examples of the problems many heroes are faced with, and delves into the psychology behind the choices they make in order to solve these problems. A goal for most heroes is to save the innocents while restoring balance between the powers of good and evil, which often involves defeating an enemy. The enemy is often one villain accompanied by a throng of followers - an army, slaves, disciples, and/or brainwashed specimens. Now this is where it gets tricky. The hero knows the villain cannot maintain the present state of power he/she holds without destroying innocent lives, but there is also a link that binds the villain to innocent individuals, and this link is affecting everyone connected to it. As with the conversation in the film Clerks, there is a persistent problem of differentiating the innocents from the guilty. Do we blow up an entire planet because the inhabitants are mind-controlled by an evil dictator, or do we try to break the link that is binding the masses to the one, in doing so freeing the minds of the entire population? How do we decide who is truly evil and deserving of death or who is simply being held under the control of something beyond them? Also, a general problem that arises when battling the issue of who exactly to save is that of humanity versus other lifeforms. Who is more worth saving, based on their species? Are the humans always innocent when standing up against aliens, robots, cyborgs, etc.? Is it justifiable to commit xenocide in order to preserve the human race? What makes humans more worthy of life than others? This is the "greater good" - humans against the universe or one group of humans against another so we can "save the children" - but how have we a...
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The TV show, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, often addresses criminal deviance such as rape and murder. In the episode, “Scorched Earth,” an African immigrant maid becomes a rape victim of a rich, Italian prime minister named Distascio (Wolf). This episode highlights how status can affect perception of certain deviant behaviors. Additionally, it addresses contemporary America’s values toward types of deviant acts, and sanctions that go along with them.
in our Society often have a fear of being victimized by others, such as the
...’t aware of an issue of unvaccinated children into the mix, leading to people believing that vaccines may cause autism. Recalling a few years ago, this was on news stations reporting on Jenny and her son’s autism, if that could change my mind on vaccines, its possible that other peoples have opinions has wavered, also.
In the line of police force it is imperative to think outside of the box. Many people confuse a police officer’s curiosity as racial profiling and racism. However, this is how a police officer often finds the majority of their evidence. In many neighborhoods, there a dominant races that live within the community. For example, if a wealthy white man was driving around a predominantly minority-based community, it would be acceptable for a police officer to grow skeptical at this situation. It is obvious that man is out of place, and it is the police officer 's duty to further investigate the
Autism is a problem that people have with communicating. It can affect many contrasting types of people in divergent ways and there is not yet a complete cure for it. People need to know about this disability and what people can do with people who have it.
The bike thief is probably the most noticeable that people are being the most bias. In the first seen you see a white male that is sawing the chain that is holding the bike in place and only a few people stop and just question him and even go as far as asking him if this is his bike and he flat out said "No this in not my bike". In the second seen you see a black male that is doing the same thing and the first person that walks by stops and asked him it the bike was his and the black man said no. The woman began to yell at him then called 911. In the final seen you see that the have replaced the black man with a blond white woman. In this seen you see a few men help her cut the chain and in the poses she would say that she is steeling the bike and them men still proceed to help her.
Trying to write about something that you don't have much information on can come across offensive and set a negative perception of that said thing. Furthermore, Greg Olear, who has a son with Asperger's Syndrome, said, "What I find objectionable is that he seems unaware of – or, worse, indifferent toward – the fact that he has made both his name and his fortune exploiting the Asperger's community, my son included". Haddon used a disability in order for him to gain popularity and money and either doesn't know or doesn't know that what he did was wrong and is a serious thing to talk about. Marketing off of something like autism can have negative effects on people with it or people who have relations with autistic
...to grow and increase yearly, one can imagine the effect on society these rates already have, and can possibly have with continued growth. It will not be long before autism becomes the normal society. That is a concern will should all share as creatures of earth. All families that are faced with autism will find happiness with the life shared with an autistic individual. Sadly, these individuals face bullying, and social rejection. They deal with health care rejections, and limited services available into adulthood. A future unknown. Although these individuals are different, that doesn’t mean they are less. As humanity, we need to treat everyone as an equal part of this important reality we call existence. Autistic individuals are the quietest souls, but that may only be because we haven’t learned to pay attention. Autism speaks, so isn’t it time to listen (htt1)?
Appalled at my audacity to label everyone’s favorite Dom with autism? Let me assure you that autism isn’t a dirty or shameful thing in my household. Nor should it be in anyone’s household. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and the like wouldn’t be the standard-bearers they are today without having employees with autism and ASD. It's no surprise that the autism and ASD populations in tech hubs like Silicon Valley, California and Redmond, Washington have incredibly high autism populations.
Main Point 2: Autism has been around for a long time and there have been many studies to try and figure out the cause, one of the studies is in vaccination.
A south wales fixer faced bullying throughout his whole entire school career just because of his syndrome. Dwayne Way (20 years old with Asperger’s syndrome) discusses on how he got diagnosed with this disorder and how he struggled to have friends and actually have a life. “A lot of time I’ve grown up without friends because people do not know how to react to the condition.” Way has struggled to learn multiple things at school. Only because he didn’t know how to react to the situation. Later on he made a video for people with conditions like his to watch. To realize that there is support out there for them and so he could educate others without the conditions to show that they’re all equal and deserve fair treatment. In source 5, Nicole Raimann babbles about how this economy is horrible because her son grew up having autism yet later on her husband figured out their insurance and the plan they had was completely worthless when it came to helping her son. “I sit here and write this as I am surrounded by boxes and moving mess. This is my last day of living in our house. Tomorrow night we will be sleeping in the rental home we leased down the street. Sometimes I feel like I’m in a dream and that I will wake up soon. I can hardly believe that my son was injured and that our insurance doesn’t cover him.”