Be brave and discover our biases

To reduce transgression, every individual in society needs to experience, from birth, being valued, respected, secure and to be raised to perform lifelong socially cohesive behaviours and self care.

It can be possible if more of us, alive now as adults, recognise the shortcoming in ourselves and commit to change. As this is not going to happen spontaneously, the state and influential non-human, legal citizens (corporations) have a role to be cohesive in action and get as many of us as possible to change these behaviours where it has the most impact. Naturally, these are teachers, caregivers, policymakers and persons who create and distribute content that is widely consumed by our societies.
In the UK today, arising out of comply or explain regulations related to race, sex and gender differences, listed companies are expected to put policies in place to reduce behaviours that are unfair to certain segments of the population.
In the USA, it is the radical activists against policies of the government and longstanding abuses by celebrities and a range of powerful figures who have been tolerated that has been pushing for change.

A part of moving adults humanely toward change is sensitisation and this is the way I think that we should be investing in, in order to move the society ahead.

The Jamaican society, being pluralistic in lifestyles and biology, has a morass of ways to denigrate and be biased against people.

At this time, we should be investing in sensitising ourselves to discover and acknowledge our ingrained biases and learn how to disentangle ourselves from them. If you learn to realise that you are indeed biased against students, co-workers, church sisters and brothers, patients, members of communities that you are supposed to serve because of their disabilities, lifestyles, personal history, appearance and performance, then your employer can give you some time to improve in these areas.

Are we brave enough to probe and acknowledge our biases and do our part to stop it when it is shame on us and harmful to others?
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Here is the Implicit Harvard Test
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

The test says that I am not biased against men or women who are attractive or not....something like that.

I am still searching for a test to confirm my biases.

I acknowledge that I disdain off key singing.
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Published on January 16, 2019 18:49
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