Eileen met Andrew in the mall, and she had not met him for a long time, when they were studying together at the same university. Eileen was very happy to meet Andrew and the following conversation began.
Elaine: What has life done to you, Andrew?
Andrew: I worked in such and such a field, and I'm not married yet and.... Elaine interrupts
: I didn't mean this, all I mean was did you find racism about your color, religion, clan, or!!!
Andrew: I didn't know you were so wise, everything around us is somehow racist
Eileen: I know about you, Andorra, since the long discussions with the doctors of our universities, that you have a wide culture, and I want to exchange conversations with you about the differences across the continents. Can you help me? We meet often in one of the halls of the public libraries, which allow discussion and exchange of conversation in some halls.
ANDREW: It's a great idea, what I love to discuss for my heart and mind, thanks for meeting and thanks for such a good put up.
The mental background
Andrew was very busy on the day of the interview with Eileen, so he decided to send her a voice note on the mobile, explaining to her one of the components of the difference between people, namely (mental background).
Each of us has adifferent mental background than those around him, and what confirms this if we grew up in almost the same country and are close in age? I assure you that with
this example:
Have you everattended a concert? Did you cry with the same piece of music while your part
started whistling and clapping, another jumped from his place in delight at the
piece of music, and another did not move a finger? this is the difference in mental background,and maybe recent emotions you carry.
Now: What is thebackground mentality and what are its components?
Unfortunately, ifyou try to search for the matter, you will find it very difficult, and I will
offer you a proposition that may make you convenience: The mental background is
the non-material factors of culture, you carry a culture that you walk among
people that differs from the Japanese man if you are European, and others, Arab
and African, are radically different from your thought and culture, So its
components: (values - beliefs - language - norms, standards, ethics, language,
organizations and institutions.
From the latter: How is your relationship with God: do you believe in Him? do you hate him Do
you not believe in religions, or do you hold an earthly or heavenly religion...
This greatly affects your dealings with and interaction with the things around
you, Let us now talk about each of them separately in a hurry to take root in
the mind: values: What do you hold in terms of societal values or personal
values? Are they different from the rural values in your country, or are they
the same?
The beliefs: Aswe talked about above, what is your belief or would you choose to be an
atheist.
The Language: Theoriginal language (your mother tongue) is very important, even if you have
dozens of other languages, why? A study found that when a person is angry or in
pain, he naturally returns to his mother tongue and often uses the insults
dictionary that he learned as a young man, and another study: They did a study
on the word (I love you), and they brought an American man, a Spanish man, and
a Japanese man, and told them to describe this sentence for us, so the American
described it: I say it to everything and everyone, regardless of how I really
feel, and the Spanish man described it: I don't say it Except for those I
really love, And the Japanese man described it: The family is my most beloved,
do you understand now that your language influences your decisions, it is a
culture, it is your mental background.
Norms: It affectsthe same society from one large group to another. Why? I give you an example
from my country, Egypt - the people who live in beloved Sinai have different norms
than those who live in Cairo, they make the girl wear a belt around her clothes
in a different color than the married one, so can she change on her own, if she
did, she would have been subjected to a popular trial, and you, what are the
norms that govern your life while you do not pay attention?
Ethics: Mostlywhat governs this issue is your religion that you own. Each religion has a
specific moral system, some of which are common to many religions, such as the
prohibition of theft, for example.
Organizations: What organizations doyou belong to? Is it a political organization? Is it a religious organization?
Is it global and transcontinental? Does it have a lofty goal? If you belong to
one of them, it is part of your mental background
Institutes: thesame idea, are these religious institutes, or intellectual institutes that
believe in modern intellectual approaches or adopt a specific idea such as
materialism or transhumanism, or is it an institute that believes in Euthanasia?
Dear: Have youfound now: that your mental background really affects your life, your choices
and preferences, and even the type of people you like to deal with, we are
governed by our mental background much more than we think, It is what makes
people differ from slight to drastic at times.
The Perception
Eileen waited for Andrew for a long time in the library, but he did not come until after quite a while, and she waited for him impatiently...
Andrew came: I'm sorry, dear, for the delay. I was campaigning for the presidential candidate.............What do you think of him?
Andrew: Go on, why did you stop?
Elaine: I don't have any say in it any more than that, shit
Andrew: Would you believe me if I told you that it was quite the opposite of what you said? Would you believe that I, with my mentality, supported a campaign for a man with the characteristics you said now?
Elaine: I'm sorry I may have gotten excited or judgmental, but that's what most people say about him, and so do I
Andrew: What I wanted to tell you through a real example around us: that what makes people differ from each other (The perception), each of us has a special perception of everything he sees or hears in his day and night, and mostly this perception is based on the amount of information flowing on the same subject.
Andrew: My dear: You judge quickly and without hesitation, and I judge slowly and with deep understanding, and other people need a deep analysis of the chosen one’s personality. This is what separates me from you and many people, and you are certainly an expert in the famous story, (Some people tied the eyes of some people and brought them to a huge thing, and asked them what this thing is, i.e. describe it, so they described many things that have absolutely nothing to do with the existing thing, Then, they removed the coverings from their eyes and found it an elephant.) The story is over... My dear: We see not with our eyes only, but with the amount of information we have obtained, so your perception is your perception and only.
The study:
One factor that influences how we perceive others is the current cognitive accessibility of a given person characteristic—that is, the extent to which a person characteristic quickly and easily comes to mind for the perceiver. Differences in accessibility will lead different people to attend to different aspects of the other person. Some people first notice how attractive someone is because they care a lot about physical appearance—for them, appearance is a highly accessible characteristic. Others pay more attention to a person’s race or religion, and still others attend to a person’s height or weight. If you are interested in style and fashion, you would probably first notice a person’s clothes, whereas another person might be more likely to notice a person’s athletic skills.
People also differ in terms of how carefully they process information about others. Some people have a strong need to think about and understand others. I’m sure you know people like this—they want to know why something went wrong or right, or just to know more about anyone with whom they interact. Need for cognition refers to the tendency to think carefully and fully about our experiences, including the social situations we encounter People with a strong need for cognition tend to process information more thoughtfully and therefore may make more causal attributions overall. In contrast, people without a strong need for cognition tend to be more impulsive and impatient and may make attributions more quickly and spontaneously. In terms of attributional differences, there is some evidence that people higher in need for cognition may take more situational factors into account when considering the behaviors of others. Consequently, they tend to make more tolerant rather than punitive attributions about people in stigmatized groups.
The mental abilities
Andrew meets Elaine for the first time
Andrew: Do you think the different mental capacities of human beings make us different from human to human, Andrew?
Andrew: Of course, my dear, do you think that all of our former friends who did not pass the practical exams in college, have succeeded in their practical lives?
Eileen: No, no, don't say that, Andrew, of course a lot of them are successful in romantic relationships or marriage or even work.
Andrew: I'm with you, Elaine, but not many of them, my dear. Success and the brain's ability to solve the small problems that you face here today and tonight are like exams, but not exams at the end of the year or in the middle of the year, but tests of an hour, a minute, and a second, and whoever can solve more problems is the biggest one Successful, even if success is not his temporary ally.
Eileen: Honestly Andrew, I'm not convinced, try to convince me
Andrew: The speed of wit, and the rapid reaction is not impulsive is a type of intelligence, the ability to organize and arrange ideas one by one is another type of intelligence, organizing who is at the forefront of your life and who is at the back of it is a kind of ability to make fateful decisions, which is a kind of intelligence. What is your opinion?
Eileen: I'm starting to get convinced, does your color cause you: so many problems?
Andrew: Don't bring topics into each other. We agreed that every time we meet, we inquire about one factor that separates people.
Eileen: Yes, yes, I am now convinced that mental capacity makes a difference between people in problem-solving, strong or weak memory, etc... Thank you, Andrew.
The study
Study: Researchers identify how mental abilities are shaped by individual differences in the brain
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Everyone has a different mixture of personality traits: some are outgoing, some are tough and some are anxious. A new study suggests that brains also have different traits that affect both anatomical and cognitive factors, such as intelligence and memory. the results are published in the journal NeuroImage.
The links
https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/331769
https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/chapter/individual-and-cultural-differences-in-person-perception/
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/sociology/culture-and-societies/material-and-nonmaterial-culture
