A lot of social advice amounts to “round problems down”. Live and let live, turn the other cheek, don’t take things personally, etc. If you avoid escalation, you avoid destructive feedback loops. The concept of microaggressions as endorsed by the modern left does the opposite.
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we still have both these norms, and most people follow them. the problem is that we have it for things like "dont talk about how wealthy you are in front of poor people" but theres a lack of awareness of "dont ask asian americans where theyre 'really from'"
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I'm not sure this lack of awareness is super widespread, and where it is its been pilloried as backward since at least the 90s see King of the Hill, the boys meeting Kahn for the first time or similar comedy about white people trying way too hard to be nice to black people
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idk man try asking some black people how widespread that issue still is
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tipsy
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if you like, here's survey data 11% of blacks report "regularly" being treated badly on account of race (many more, 60%, "occasionally") interpretation from an inchoate agent model: ill-treatment is more exceptional / concentrated than a general rulehttp://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/06/27/5-personal-experiences-with-discrimination/ …
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this is an absurd thing to go to surveys for. read what people say about their experiences.
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which people tho? shall I take ta-nehisi coates as representative, or john mcwhorter? etc if you want something to get information for this particular question about a distribution of experiences, you're probably not going to beat a survey
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whoever says they experienced it! or whoever you're talking to! what??
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we very clearly did if you look at manuals on manners and politeness microaggression hyper awareness
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this is partly a class warfare thing, complaining about boorish and uncouth poors that haven't been housebroken
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hmmm politeness as specific behavioral prescriptions vs politeness as flexible stance aiming maintaining comity and personal comfort the former can be used to bludgeon, contradicting the second case
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draft idea: lower status norms more likely to resemble honor culture, people raised low-status more likely to have belligerent responses to perceived slights as a locally-helpful behavioral adaptation that performs badly out of sample
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yes, I've noted you can hash out conflicts more honestly when poor.
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Positive aspect for sure! Although people raised with a given set of norms will usually be able to navigate those norms to communicate effectively I bet. Would guess problems mostly arrive when people try to work outside their native social languages, in any direction.
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from experience yea, I grew up poor and now navigate middle / middle upper sensibility
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not very well, mind.
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yeesssssss
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