06/02/2021; Week 7: Response to: "Culture and Psychology"

I enjoy reading and learning about statistical data where culture plays with the psychology of people, but much more when it influences the psychology of society in general. There are anecdotes where it is easy to come to the conclusion of such influence when it comes to societies that lack "the light of science", and "education", but contemplating similar events in societies that supposedly have greater erudition leaves much to think about.

To think of Cotton Mather, one of the most brilliant colonists of Massachusetts, participating in the infamous Salem trials is breathtaking...surely we must "have less faith in uneducated people, but don't have total faith in educated people" (Ivers, 2015). This anecdote reminds me of a similar scenario when the supporters of the geocentric theory became Galileo Galilei's most bitter enemies. What would Galileo Galilei feel when he was condemned by the Pope, the highest authority of that time who according to him even had the power to talk to God? ...Forced to retract his theory, which corroborated that the Earth and the planets revolved around the Sun, in pain of losing his life.

Fanaticism of any kind is dangerous, and in the name of culture or fashion, many follies are justified. History has shown this. Today, in the midst of globalized culture and with greater access to knowledge than in any other era we face the culture of glass, and it's so difficult to define people that in some circumstances you feel in trouble about how you should treat them, circumstances unthinkable in other times: transgender children, binary people, the influence of social networks in society, influencers ... a society so fragile that it's easily offended by aspects that no one would have considered 10 years ago. So much "freedom", "equality" and "knowledge" has created great challenges for teachers today, and it can be overwhelming! How does culture affect the psychology of a society? I'm going to leave a link to a video here and slowly withdraw... (any resemblance to the events of Salem in 1692, or werewolves in Europe in the 1520s to 1630s, among others, may be pure coincidence).  

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References:

Culture and psychology  https://video.byui.edu/media/06+Culture+and+Psychology/0_s4h3d6bc

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