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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Sometimes our brains are structured differently in ways that lead to basic msicommunications about the world. If your brain can't handle loud noises but mine can, then when you leave the party early I might assume you are depressed or introverted, because I don't register the...
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@Aella_Girl
basic differences of your experiences that lead to this behavior. In a similar way, I think increased connectivity around the world has lead to this occurring more in large scales. People from e.g. Atlanta might regularly encounter racism in their lives and view it as serious...
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@Aella_Girl
while people from Seattle might legitimately be less racist and see it less in their own lives. But when on the internet, we often interpret the other person's beliefs under the assumption they have the same basic experiences as we do; as in, Seattle people might view
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@Aella_Girl
people from Atlanta as overly whiny - because that *is* how Seattleites would be if they acted like Atlanta people did, given the conditions in Seattle. There's just failure to consider the differences in basic conditions; if we did, everyone might seem a bit more reasonable.
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@Aella_Girl
Yup. I started an essay on this which I didn’t finish on how people of different regions use the same words differently, to describe different experiences in ways which might appear familiar, so everyone is ostensibly speaking English, but cannot communicate.