The idea that love is blind always sounded very cliché to me up until today. The proverb really has great meaning and fact behind it in my opinion and can be applied in different ways in a person’s love life. You can love a person so much to a point where he/she is perfect in almost every way, no matter what he/she does. It can be that your significant other leaves his/her socks around all the way up to infidelity. He/she may like something that you hate but you put up with it anyway. According to the social psychology book and what I’ve learned Counterfactual thinking seems to somehow play into the proverb Love is Blind. Counterfactual thinking is changing some aspects of the past as a way of imagining what may have been. For a person madly in love he/she may think we will be perfect together and may also think what could have been. I have done that myself involving a significant other. He was perfect to me, but we no longer talk and I always wonder what we could have been. For him and I, love is blind is the perfect proverb that explained us. When a person is madly in love he/she will change his/her thought process and see his/her significant other as the person they want them to be. Accessibility also plays a part. Say you have a partner who isn’t always the nicest to you but they are sometimes. If they most recent thing they have done for you is nice you may ignore or not notice when they are unkind.
My research article is about the Infatuation and attraction to a dissimilar other.
The study involved thirty-two white American males. The students were brought into the room by the female experimenter and were given an attitude survey of 15 items. The female experimenter would leave and then return with a female confederate w...
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... that the placebo was an actual vitamin, when really it wasn’t. I believe this study does not support the proverb love is blind. The subjects were able to lessen the dissimilarities of the confederate, but they were aware that they were still there. The infatuation induction subjects were able to look beyond their dissimilarities because they had interactions with the confederate and were able to also see her before hand. The results showed they noticed the dissimilarities but chose to over look them. I feel that her attractiveness and her flirty actions were a factor in the subject’s ability to reduce her dissimilarities. I believe if this experiment was reversed and it was all women and a male confederate the results would be almost the same. If an attractive male began to flirt with a woman and make it look like he cared, she too would also be interested in him.
Assumptions from the beginning, presumed the Jim Crow laws went hand in hand with slavery. Slavery, though, contained an intimacy between the races that the Jim Crow South did not possess. Woodward used another historian’s quote to illustrate the familiarity of blacks and whites in the South during slavery, “In every city in Dixie,’ writes Wade, ‘blacks and whites lived side by side, sharing the same premises if not equal facilities and living constantly in each other’s presence.” (14) Slavery brought about horrible consequences for blacks, but also showed a white tolerance towards blacks. Woodward explained the effect created from the proximity between white owners and slaves was, “an overlapping of freedom and bondage that menaced the institution of slavery and promoted a familiarity and association between black and white that challenged caste taboos.” (15) The lifestyle between slaves and white owners were familiar, because of the permissiveness of their relationship. His quote displayed how interlocked blacks...
In James McPherson’s novel, What They Fought For, a variety of Civil War soldier documents are examined to show the diverse personal beliefs and motives for being involved in the war. McPherson’s sample, “is biased toward genuine fighting soldiers” (McPherson, 17) meaning he discusses what the ordinary soldier fought for. The Confederacy was often viewed as the favorable side because their life style relied on the war; Confederates surrounded their lives with practices like slavery and agriculture, and these practices were at stake during the war. On the other hand, Northerners fought to keep the country together. Although the Civil War was brutal, McPherson presents his research to show the dedication and patriotism of the soldiers that fought and died for a cause.
By 1890's the south was so crazed by all of its prejudice and hate toward blacks that many advocates decided that blacks could possibly succeed in the south. Industrial wo...
...tive on the psychological damages of slavery. White believes “pairing the psychological with the enslaved woman’s means of survival has helped us analyze many patterns that emerged after slavery (10).”
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The next few paragraphs will compare blacks in the north to blacks in the south in the 1800’s. In either location blacks were thought of as incompetent and inferior. The next few paragraphs will explain each group’s lifestyle and manner of living.
Sokol, Jason. "IIP Digital | U.S. Department of State." White Southerners' Reactions to the Civil Rights
As previously mentioned, due to racial biases by both the American military and the French, African-Americans were alleged to have raped and sexually assaulted women during the American occupation of French. Both the French and White American soldiers regarded African-American soldiers as savages that had barbarism deep rooted from their African roots (240). What exists in this hate is the contrasting relationship that the White soldiers shared with the French about the African-American soldiers. Whilst, the White soldiers regarded the French as shameful and disgraceful, the French exerting the same exact belief on the African-American soldiers in terms that they were hypersexual and completely uncivilized. Though the White soldiers had viable and proven evidence that the French were committing acts that weren’t socially accepted in American culture; this same evidence did not even exist and was based on mere rumors of African-American soldiers committing these vicious
There are certain historical facts, which have been lost in the public memory, as certain legends have taken the place of reality. In order to fully understand what happened, it is necessary to comprehend that the Northern states were far from being uniformly the champions of equal rights that is generally indicated by popular belief. By this understanding, that is that the abandonment of African-Americans did not constitute a drastic change of moral position for many people in the North, it is easier to understand their subsequent actions in ignoring the plight of African-Americans in the South after the Reconstruction era.5
Frederickson’s title “The Black Imagine in the White Mind” leaves little doubt regarding which side of the argument the author takes on this subject. Within his essay, he stresses the point that racism under the doctrine of “white supremacy” had a vast influence on the failure of Reconstruction. This doctrine of white supremacy stated that white men were superior to colored men, although colored men were now freedmen. Frederickson contends that although the Civil War was over, racism within the south did not disappear overnight which lead to strong opposition from southerners to conform to the North’s pursuit of equality among all races. Southerners were extremely bitter with the fact that colored men would have civil rights equal to theirs.
The lives of men and women, women more than men, have changed a lot of the past couple years even decades and more than that. The interconnection of race and gender in the evolving social hierarchy of the early South, Colonial North Carolina, has changed. In Colonial North Carolina the main difference was on how the ways of “ordinary people” interacted with different genders and how race was different between the people of North Carolina. Peoples’ beliefs were the main thing that changed these views, but sometimes it reflected on political beliefs also. Between men and women sex was seen differently. Men and women’s views on sex were far from similar and this has affected their views on race and their views on each other. Views on sex has been
Following what was arguably the most turbulent time in American history; Reconstruction had far-reaching effects on a number of areas of life in the United States. In the Deep South, one of the clearest impacts could be seen on racial relations, specifically between whites and newly-freed African Americans. Legally, dramatic changes had been made at the federal level, providing African Americans with a host of rights that had never been offered them before. It was no wonder, then, that former slave owners in the South rejected these changes and rights, taking whatever steps necessary to keep African Americans down. The dramatic changes that took place in terms of race relations between African Americans and whites following Reconstruction had a far-reaching impact on society, with the shockwaves of these changes being felt nearly a century into the future.
The effects slavery had on Southern women during the antebellum era, are similar to the effects of an addictive narcotic such as nicotine, once they had a taste they were addicted and wanted and desired more. As previously stated, Southern
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I would like to begin this assignment with a brief explanation of the points and reasons that relate to the topic of how and what the reasons were on why Southern whites were in favor of limiting rights and freedom to the black population of the United States , such reasons and ideas included the organized anti-black intimidating terrorist group The Ku Klux Klan , the introduction of the Black Codes formerly known as the Jim Crow laws and President Lincolns ideas such as the emancipation proclamation and the 10% loyalty oath and lastly sharecropping during the reconstruction era. To begin this essay first will be a brief explanation about the Reconstruction era .