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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2018 2:56:40 GMT
So I was thinking is heightism something that people are conditioned or is it natural for people to discriminate against short people, or people who are ''different. The reason why i ask this is because I have a little nephew. My nephew is a little child. And recently I have notice the way he treats me. Its always a battle for him to treat me like an adult. For example he refuses to call me Aunty. He calls me by my first name. I told him several times not to call me by my first name and my name is Aunty. But he keeps sayin g he forgets to call me Aunty. And now just doesnt call me anything. So it makes me wonder is heightism something that is human nature,, or is it learned behavior. Either way it sucks. It is terrible to treat someone based on something they have no control over. What are your thoughts?
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Post by Heightism Report on Aug 28, 2018 5:19:58 GMT
I'm of the belief that any theory relying on the assumed feelings and moods of cave people is a bunch of Hocus Pocus, and academia agrees with me because Evolutionary Psychology is considered a philosophy, not a science. With that being said, there may be a scrap or two of evolutionary motivations behind heightism, but the social conditioning behind the nurture elements of heightism are so prevalent that you can't really gauge the nature elements in the current social climate because there is too much interference created by the social conditioning that people undergo from an early age.
Your nephew is already old enough to talk, thus, he already knows that people larger than him demand respect because adults have already imposed their size on him and he has already taken notice that adults are generally a certain amount taller than he is, thus, you shatter one of the earliest archetypes he has ever been programmed to believe in, so he adjusts the amount of respect he gives you accordingly. By Kindergarten, I was already fully aware of the integral role height played because I was already being mocked by teachers, other kids, etc. Another way heightism is indoctrinated at an early age is adults' obsession with treating physical growth as an accomplishment. They constantly congratulate kids for growing, and they spread a bunch of nonsense about how smaller kids "need to drink more milk," "eat more vegetables" and other such idiotic folk wisdom. All of these things tell kids that tallness should be praised and shortness should be punished. I can show you hundreds of Twitter posts of young adults who still slander short people with folk wisdom about "drinking milk" and "eating vegetables." There was also a 20/20 special years ago where they showed young kids pictures of stick figures, and the only difference between the figures was their height. The kids overwhelmingly assigned positive traits to the tall figures and negative ones to the short, and the young girls already knew that they were supposed to dream about marrying a tall man. Disney, and other production companies that cater to children routinely indoctrinate kids with heightism. Basically, these discriminatory notions get hammered into the psyche extremely early on and they tend to stay there into adulthood. Your nephew is already showing the early signs of the nurture aspects that society indoctrinates kids with. This is a substantial reason why people refuse to listen to us. Heightism is one of the first ways they learned to categorize people, and they hold those beliefs so deeply that they guard them fiercely.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2018 14:23:28 GMT
So its nurture. But its nurture at a very early age. Wow being around children really made me aware the kind of subliminal and sub conscious programming that children are subjected too. I consider myself very aware but heightism has made me more aware of what I called brainwashing. Once again you are very good at breaking thinngs down..and insightful. Thank you.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 3:09:21 GMT
I think the root cause of all prejudices is how people judge people based on physical traits they can not control. Bascially they are judging us by our appearance and treating us based on our appearance. And also punishing us because they feel we failed to measure up to what an adult is supoose to look like. It seems like humans dont know how to be humane or they dont understand the concept. We as humans dont understand that we are not suppose to be perfect. We say that no one is perfect but we punish people when we see a perceived weakness and do our best to try to marginalize them, stigmatize them or eliminate them. Its very carnal and not very divine. I think thats the real problem. And that problem seems to be a recurrent theme. The only way to get rid of any type of prejudice is for marginalized groups of people to fight back. So if short people dont want to continue to be stepped on we have to unite. The way I see people is ..i see people as having strengths and weaknesses. And that just because someone has a weakness,, or flaw doesnt mean they are less. They are just humans. This concept of perfectionism..trying to aim for perfection misses the mark of what I think humanity is suppose to be.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 3:12:34 GMT
Instead of humans being carnal, always competing against each other.. categorizing people.. and JUDGING people..we should aim to be kind, empathetic, compassionate, mercy and have grace. I think if we as a world would teach people these skills there wouldnt be so much genocide...and dehumanization in this world.
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