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5 mar 2024 · David Sedaris's essay "Us and Them" offers a humorous and insightful commentary on the nature of cultural differences and the ways in which they shape our perceptions of others.
Us and Them, by David Sedaris, is a short story about two friends, both in their twenties at the time, who are taking a road trip. Throughout the story, the author uses a variety of poetic devices to provide humor and insight into human nature.
Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind is a 2005 nonfiction book by David Berreby about how humans divide and categorize themselves. The psychological text explains human nature and the neuroscience of human groupings like races, ethnicities, classes, and nationalities.
What knowledge about human kinds can I bring to this encounter to help me understand it?” (123-24). We mind-read individuals. It requires attention, detailed knowledge, and preliminary information. Kind-reading requires less knowledge of individual people and utilizes “person construal” to categorize others and ourselves.
Human-kind beliefs guide us through our world. We live and die by them. They aid human evolution by allowing us to understand strangers and form large, complex societies. They can also produce negative outcomes.
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Back in New York State, we had lived in the country, with no sidewalks or streetlights; you could leave the house and still be alone. But here, when you looked out the window, you saw other houses,...
