Sam Richards Rhetorical Analysis

Social Psychology and examining empathy. Steadily watching the Sam Richards: A radical experiment in empathy where he explain his reasoning on empathy in the Middle East. He starts by doing an analogy; what if a hundred years ago China had been the most powerful nation in the world and they came to the United States in search of coal, and they found it, and, in fact, they found lots of it right here. And pretty soon, they began shipping that coal, ton by ton, rail car by rail car, boatload by boatload, back to China and elsewhere around the world. And they got fabulously wealthy in doing so. And they built beautiful cities all powered on that coal. And back here in the United States, we saw economic despair, deprivation. (Smith, 2010)

He used

this analogy to make the crowd feel empathy about how the United States is doing in the Middle East. He also made a valuable point about how Americans didn’t care about the Middle Eastern bombing until it started destroying the oil fields in the Middle East, which Americans cares so much for. He demonstrating the social dilemmas in which people use actions that produce rewards for one individual will produce negative consequences for all if they are adopted by everyone. He explained that if the Chinese had did this, and if American were just dirt poor and someone rebel , The Chinese would have taught Americans to protect the coal and protect China best asset ,which is the coal for them to build great cities and produce a great economy while the United States suffer . And they will provide the Americans with great technology and military power to crush anyone with a social interference, which will cause a reduction in performance due to the presence of other people. But this will cause a frustration –aggression hypotheses which state that this frustration would lead to aggression. (Bernstein A. Douglas, 2014) In which the Chinese would not care about the altruism of most Americans.
It makes a person rethink how you look at the wars in Iraq.

He used a photograph also to put ourselves in the shoes, as if we had a United States coals rising with China. He made the audience feel the anger and the rage that the Middle Eastern felt to defend their country, if we step into their shoes and look at the sociology analysis of this situation. If we put ourselves outside the box, and look at another concept of looking at the world differently and understanding empathy in a different way. Sam is not saying to agree with the terrorist, but to empathize, as if we were in the identical shoes. What if we had a crusade that tried to destroy our way of living and our meaning of life? If we Americans had to live in the despair in a poor country and looking at what media showing the Middle East. Like we are all rich with blue eyes and blond hair, which is not the case at all. He uses this approach the make a statement and to differ groupthink, which is a pattern of thinking that renders groups members unable to evaluate realistically the wisdom of various options and decisions. (Bernstein A. Douglas, 2014) It make you wonder, why the Arabs teach their kids, exactly how we teach the Marine Core. It’s because of Americans first impressions that, says we are Christians but therefore we will kill just for a material called liquid goal, which is oil. We try to use attribution to explain the thinking of Middle Eastern people, but the thing is we cannot determine that because

as humans, we have a lot of fundamental attribution error which causes a bias towards attributing the behaviors of others to internal factors.
As Americans, We use the ultimate attribution error a lot. We always look at the positive actions of our people or groups, but never really look at the negative aspects that we produce. Is it because we stay in an individualist culture or is it due to the factor of unrealistic optimism. When we look at the news, all we say is Dios Mio, Or My God, these people are savages and what make them do this things but we never as a human being empathize with these people. We never look at our situation and put ourselves in their shoes. It just that our attitudes as Americans , is that we are perfect but in reality we are not and we need to start empathizing and looking at things in a different way , and if we do, it could be a day that we would have a very peaceful Middle East .