Thanks for the article, I really enjoyed it. Do you think the following is a fair application of these ideas?
After reading this I had a conversation with a First Nations friend who was talking about his experiences with DEI in the workplace. He had said a white person was politely asked to not use the term "assimilation" because it is a triggering word for First Nations people. My friend was a bit confused and thought it was a bit too much. He looked into it more and found that the reason assimilation is a no-go for First Nations people is because in the 60s in Canada a bunch of children were taken from their homes and forced into adoption by white families. The woman who had mentioned it in the meeting was quite literally one of those children.
So this seems like an inverse form of memetic binding. For First Nations people the idea of assimilation gets bound to emotion triggers of anger, exclusion, etc., and becomes a way in which they feel invalidated by the white majority environments they find themselves in.
Mark, this profoundly resonates from an instructional perspective - thanks for that.
Another good read 👏
Cheers buddy. Get deeper, gets darker, we shine light where we must.
Memetic liberation with cognitive defragging would be useful in this context. Maybe semantic disambiguation via subsumption :)
Sneaky bastards also julius ceaser adding an extra day to the calendar another sneaky bastard
Thanks for the article, I really enjoyed it. Do you think the following is a fair application of these ideas?
After reading this I had a conversation with a First Nations friend who was talking about his experiences with DEI in the workplace. He had said a white person was politely asked to not use the term "assimilation" because it is a triggering word for First Nations people. My friend was a bit confused and thought it was a bit too much. He looked into it more and found that the reason assimilation is a no-go for First Nations people is because in the 60s in Canada a bunch of children were taken from their homes and forced into adoption by white families. The woman who had mentioned it in the meeting was quite literally one of those children.
So this seems like an inverse form of memetic binding. For First Nations people the idea of assimilation gets bound to emotion triggers of anger, exclusion, etc., and becomes a way in which they feel invalidated by the white majority environments they find themselves in.