Why did the church react in this way though? What caused the ever all-mighty representatives of God to bother themselves with a piece of paper that some guy wrote? The answer to this lies within all of us as we showcase some or more of this behavior often without realizing it. This is something I call the unfamiliarity bias. If we cannot deal with unfamiliarity our first instinctive approach is to hate the thing that we are unfamiliar with and in extreme cases trying to eradicate the unfamiliar thing or to alter it into something more easily acceptable and easily perceivable by our minds. This is evident when conservatives are exposed to homosexuality or simply any generational change is it slightest such a taste in music and clothing or be it an ideological difference of capitalism and communism or right-wing party and left-wing party or abortion rights.
This unfamiliarity bias is also the reason behind xenophobia and general hatred between people who just have different ways of doing everyday things like praying, eating, dressing, makeup, architecture, education, marketing, economics, governance, and ideologies.
Our love for similarity and our obsession with symmetry has driven us to create and follow an education model that works to create a more and more homogenous world day by day. The education we receive has prevented us from familiarising ourselves with people from all around the world and exchange ideas, clothing, food, technology, methodologies, skills, and numerous discoveries and has tried to make us as similar to one another as possible. Everything that the exchange of cultures could have brought was destroyed by the homogenous education model that let our unfamiliarity bias grow big by not allowing any exposure to any type of difference.
A stupid man's ego is more fragile than a bird's feather. The ridiculous heights to which man goes to justify his way of life to be the only right way sometimes baffles me. In India, the owl is known as "ullu". The bird is associated with stupidity and the word is used to demean people by calling them owls which implies that they are as stupid as the owl. Now if you are wondering why the owl is called stupid it's because it is awake at night and humans traditionally sleep.
That's it, that's all the reason a man needs to justify that owl is a stupid bird because it does not follow the sleeping norms that we as humans have created based on our biological abilities. We think very highly of ourselves in the way we live on the planet and this superiority complex has led to massive bloodshed and mass genocide of people just because they behaved differently.
We can find heaps of evidence of a man assuming his way of living is superior simply by reading the letters that administrators of the colonial rulers sent. The letters that I read were of Thomas Babington Macaulay and that of Thomas Roe, but the same is true for any country. Andrew Jackson the president of the colonial United States said and I quote "That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition."
This type of imperialist ideology is the reason why the United States and other colonized countries had to suffer the ridiculous administrative, political, and social changes. Let's proceed to our main topic which is Indian education and how it is cultural genocide.
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INDIA'S EDUCATION ( A CULTURAL GENOCIDE)
Non-FictionA sociological look into the education system of India. Answers to your childhood questions like why do u need haircut and why uniforms exist. The expose of education model by Milgram's experiment. Detail explanation of education by a sociological p...
