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On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.
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prejudice
war
compassion
humanity
fear
trust
charter-for-compassion
compassion-action-network
cultural-differences
cultural-diversity
global-community
military-conflict
opportunity-quotes
polarization
slpendid-literarium
stop-killing-each-other
waging-peace
peacism
antiracism
terrorists
militarization
assumptions
compassion-heals-lives
nonviolent-conflict-resolution
police-reform
police-shootings
nonviolence
overcoming-fear
terrorism
xenophobia
uncertainty
political-philosophy
panic
desperation
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Aberjhani |
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In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.
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prejudice
assumptions
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Malcolm Gladwell |
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Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.
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loneliness
self-indulgence
assumptions
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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"Despite the passage of close to a million years since first sailed to Flores, however, what archaeology does concede is that the human species could have developed and refined those early nautical skills to the extent of being able to cross a vast ocean like the Pacific or the Atlantic from one side to the other. In the case of the former, extensive transoceanic journeys are not believed to have been undertaken until about 3,500 years ago, during the so-called Polynesian expansion. And the mainstream historical view is that the Atlantic was not successfully navigated until 1492--the year in which, as the schoolyard mnemonic has it, "Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Indeed, the notion that long transoceanic voyages were a technological during the Stone Age remains one of the central structural elements of the dominant reference frame of archaeology--a reference frame that geneticists see no reason not to respect and deploy when interpreting their own data. Since that reference frame rules out, a priori, the option of a direct ocean crossing between Australasia and South America during the Paleolithic and instead is adamant that all settlement came via northeast Asia, geneticists tend to approach the data from that perspective."
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geneticists
oceans
assumptions
migrations
ice-age
deep-human-history
prejudices
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Graham Hancock |
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"After the first Neanderthal skeletal remains were identified in Europe in the nineteenth century it was, for a very long while, one of the fundamental unquestioned assumptions of archaeology, a matter taken to be self-evidently true, that other "older," "less-evolved" human species never attained, or even in their wildest dreams could hope to aspire, to the same levels of cultural development as . During more than a century of subsequent analysis, and despite multiple additional discoveries, the Neanderthals continued to be depicted as nothing more than brutal, shambling, stupid subhumans--literally morons by comparison with ourselves. Since the beginning of the second decade of the twenty-first century, however, and with increasing certainty as the evidence has become overwhelming, a new "image" of the Neanderthals as sensitive, intelligent, symbolic, and creative beings capable of advanced thought processes and technological innovations has taken root among archaeologists and is set to become the ruling paradigm."
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assumptions
paradigm
remains
neanderthals
culture
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Graham Hancock |