en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/2454928 Comments by Yang_zi http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/04/21/if-prison-has-taken-anything-away-from-me/#IDComment145242574 I have never even stepped into a prison for once, so I am confused with all the aspects of the prisons. How is it look like? What are prisoners supposed to do inside of these limited walls? Does it have some restrictions for people to obey and to recognize the most correct ways of behaviors? Is it full of serious senses? Or is it no more than just fears and worries? Is it possible for someone to have fun inside? What’s the most important value of the prison which it has acted out and is regulating so well? So many uninterrupted questions coming up in my minds just according to my innocent curiosities about diverse tiny parts of a prison. It’s awful and destructive in my first impression when referring to anything about prison, since I have read a large amount of personal emotional expressions about lifers. There is only a comparatively extreme minimal number of lifers or just someone who has even had experience inside prison who can live a happy and relaxing life. Their essays can always be defined as a way of regrettable thinking and potential reevaluation of themselves.In the article “If prison has taken anything away from me…”, there is a negative and unhappy voice which is expressing sins and crimes and cold based on the daily life. The lifer is persuiting some kind of emotion no matter bad or good, no matter negative or positive, no matter natural or unreal. All he wants is that he don’t want to be vacant inside his heart or mind. In other words, he is in eager and urgent needs for gaining a emotional behavior and structure as general people do, which can be defined as if his inside worlds can be valued as a true human being’s regular device. No wonder that inside himself, he has more fears and negative expressions than happy and positive ones. According to his statement, “My past is a collage of half remembered pains.  My present is a constant state of longing.  My future an endless stretch of blackness”, though he has looked into his own world deeper and further than our imagination, he is still struggling to change a little bit of what he has formerly assumed and constructed. He wonders if he can regain some brightness of life; he didn’t say simply that he wants more than just the failure about the whole world; he feels incapable to re-obtain anything can lead to a exciting and colorful being; he really consider the whole thing going in an established steady way in which worlds should be regulated or operated in a way just against lifers’ freedom because they are just the groups who have no sharing responsibility or enjoying rights anymore. What a pity for themselves to think it the same way since others’ conceptions have no more serious and fundamental effects as own ones. If ones they have been put into a prison, they have a future path to make self-evaluations once every day. It turns out like a cycling tendency for them to be reminding themselves that they are harmful individuals and crime takers, or they are worthless and useless in every parts of life with various levels of disabilities. That’s true and appropriate for lifers to regret about what they had done before, but it’s more vital for them to re-examine what their insides look like and re-build one which has more upwards transcending factors with a full combinations of happiness and wishes. As a result, trying to find something has been stolen unconsciously by the prison or hidden by outsides environments, is a challenge just like a phenomenon in which a fish is struggling with insufficient and never-enough power to get to know what if they haven’t been in water before. That’s the way society works, since we are a mini part which can be easily neglected all the time so we are lack of capacity to make any revolutions. That’s the individuals’ weakness compared with society’s powerfulness. Behind all these outsides, hidden inside is the huge complications and embarrassments. No matter we have or haven’t discovered it, it is just there never going to disappear. Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:29:41 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/04/21/if-prison-has-taken-anything-away-from-me/#IDComment145242574 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment143200036 After reading “Flip the script for a moment”, I have to admit that there are actually-existing invisible strings which have shaped our ways of actions and responses towards different social issues. I have to accept the conception that people whoever inside a certain society, should have been restricted in a special kind of behaviors and habits in daily life. There are lots of copies accompanied with wide-ranged progressing so that the whole society is moving forward all the time. In my opinion, looking inside the ways of humans’ thoughts and actions, is supposed to be a complex and unexpected way which can not be obtained by general people who have no extraordinary capability of empathy. Referring to empathy, it is no wonder an uncommon ability which is full of skills to step out of own shoes and stand on others’ points with constant reconsidering the world. If a majority of people have possessed the way to manipulate “empathy” correctly, there is no wonder that less bias, wars, conflicts appearing in the world. What’s more, the imbalanced definitions of different races and genders should have disappeared already. However, the reality isn’t as perfect and well-behaved as we expect. The long-lasting shortage of equitable judgment and definition towards different social phenomena are really difficult and complicated to delete within a small amount of time even inside a tiny range of location. That’s why human beings are struggling the unique ways which are acceptable within individuals themselves but not suitable for the entire society out because they have to compromise to the wholly social rules as long as they want to step further. Apparently, individuals are really weak so that they have no tremendous and effective influences to change anything about their own behaviors. According to this incapability, society is acting out in its own way which is though based on the summary of individuals’ behaviors but it turns out more like a group-thinking which should obey and perfect the upper-classes’ benefits. That’s how the huge and diverse society has been working so well- just on the basis of the decisions and sole selfishness from a small class of politicians and riches who have totally unimaginable great powers to control almost the ways of social actions. Just considering the races without matters with gender differences, it seems ridiculous to punish any unequal former perspectives because different races built up with different cultures and wealth really have own styles and even have accepted their own social levels and divisions positively. That is to say, looking back for a really long-gone history, race bias has been defined as a natural solution to social classes divisions and people all over the world are potentially willing maybe actually they have to accept the way it is. It is the same way how gender difference works. Invisible strings establish the background of the society which has a large and wide influential impedes for the equal conception to last forever. Regarding people as fish, the society as the water we have to choose to live in, none of us can leave it for a long time though we can flee and escape the environment and regulate own styles for a while; we should confirm that we have to find out a way to come back even if we have discovered what is wrong inside the society or what should be done in eager needs. Only own to the natural fundamental rule that fishes have to live in water, we are the last and un-easiest ones to realize the conditions or stay awaken for a periods. That’s the mysterious sociology, we should try to think like a sociologist though it is kinds of confusions resulting from lots of hidden surprises whatever bad or good. Never doubt the way, it is just what is should be acted. Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:40:08 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment143200036 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2010/03/26/flip-the-script-for-a-moment/#IDComment143198182 After reading “Flip the script for a moment”, I have to admit that there are actually-existing invisible strings which have shaped our ways of actions and responses towards different social issues. I have to accept the conception that people whoever inside a certain society, should have been restricted in a special kind of behaviors and habits in daily life. There are lots of copies accompanied with wide-ranged progressing so that the whole society is moving forward all the time. In my opinion, looking inside the ways of humans’ thoughts and actions, is supposed to be a complex and unexpected way which can not be obtained by general people who have no extraordinary capability of empathy. Referring to empathy, it is no wonder an uncommon ability which is full of skills to step out of own shoes and stand on others’ points with constant reconsidering the world. If a majority of people have possessed the way to manipulate “empathy” correctly, there is no wonder that less bias, wars, conflicts appearing in the world. What’s more, the imbalanced definitions of different races and genders should have disappeared already. However, the reality isn’t as perfect and well-behaved as we expect. The long-lasting shortage of equitable judgment and definition towards different social phenomena are really difficult and complicated to delete within a small amount of time even inside a tiny range of location. That’s why human beings are struggling the unique ways which are acceptable within individuals themselves but not suitable for the entire society out because they have to compromise to the wholly social rules as long as they want to step further. Apparently, individuals are really weak so that they have no tremendous and effective influences to change anything about their own behaviors. According to this incapability, society is acting out in its own way which is though based on the summary of individuals’ behaviors but it turns out more like a group-thinking which should obey and perfect the upper-classes’ benefits. That’s how the huge and diverse society has been working so well- just on the basis of the decisions and sole selfishness from a small class of politicians and riches who have totally unimaginable great powers to control almost the ways of social actions. Just considering the races without matters with gender differences, it seems ridiculous to punish any unequal former perspectives because different races built up with different cultures and wealth really have own styles and even have accepted their own social levels and divisions positively. That is to say, looking back for a really long-gone history, race bias has been defined as a natural solution to social classes divisions and people all over the world are potentially willing maybe actually they have to accept the way it is. It is the same way how gender difference works. Invisible strings establish the background of the society which has a large and wide influential impedes for the equal conception to last forever. Regarding people as fish, the society as the water we have to choose to live in, none of us can leave it for a long time though we can flee and escape the environment and regulate own styles for a while; we should confirm that we have to find out a way to come back even if we have discovered what is wrong inside the society or what should be done in eager needs. Only own to the natural fundamental rule that fishes have to live in water, we are the last and un-easiest ones to realize the conditions or stay awaken for a periods. That’s the mysterious sociology, we should try to think like a sociologist though it is kinds of confusions resulting from lots of hidden surprises whatever bad or good. Never doubt the way, it is just what is should be acted. Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:31:32 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2010/03/26/flip-the-script-for-a-moment/#IDComment143198182 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment143197932 After reading “Flip the script for a moment”, I have to admit that there are actually-existing invisible strings which have shaped our ways of actions and responses towards different social issues. I have to accept the conception that people whoever inside a certain society, should have been restricted in a special kind of behaviors and habits in daily life. There are lots of copies accompanied with wide-ranged progressing so that the whole society is moving forward all the time. In my opinion, looking inside the ways of humans’ thoughts and actions, is supposed to be a complex and unexpected way which can not be obtained by general people who have no extraordinary capability of empathy. Referring to empathy, it is no wonder an uncommon ability which is full of skills to step out of own shoes and stand on others’ points with constant reconsidering the world. If a majority of people have possessed the way to manipulate “empathy” correctly, there is no wonder that less bias, wars, conflicts appearing in the world. What’s more, the imbalanced definitions of different races and genders should have disappeared already. However, the reality isn’t as perfect and well-behaved as we expect. The long-lasting shortage of equitable judgment and definition towards different social phenomena are really difficult and complicated to delete within a small amount of time even inside a tiny range of location. That’s why human beings are struggling the unique ways which are acceptable within individuals themselves but not suitable for the entire society out because they have to compromise to the wholly social rules as long as they want to step further. Apparently, individuals are really weak so that they have no tremendous and effective influences to change anything about their own behaviors. According to this incapability, society is acting out in its own way which is though based on the summary of individuals’ behaviors but it turns out more like a group-thinking which should obey and perfect the upper-classes’ benefits. That’s how the huge and diverse society has been working so well- just on the basis of the decisions and sole selfishness from a small class of politicians and riches who have totally unimaginable great powers to control almost the ways of social actions. Just considering the races without matters with gender differences, it seems ridiculous to punish any unequal former perspectives because different races built up with different cultures and wealth really have own styles and even have accepted their own social levels and divisions positively. That is to say, looking back for a really long-gone history, race bias has been defined as a natural solution to social classes divisions and people all over the world are potentially willing maybe actually they have to accept the way it is. It is the same way how gender difference works. Invisible strings establish the background of the society which has a large and wide influential impedes for the equal conception to last forever. Regarding people as fish, the society as the water we have to choose to live in, none of us can leave it for a long time though we can flee and escape the environment and regulate own styles for a while; we should confirm that we have to find out a way to come back even if we have discovered what is wrong inside the society or what should be done in eager needs. Only own to the natural fundamental rule that fishes have to live in water, we are the last and un-easiest ones to realize the conditions or stay awaken for a periods. That’s the mysterious sociology, we should try to think like a sociologist though it is kinds of confusions resulting from lots of hidden surprises whatever bad or good. Never doubt the way, it is just what is should be acted. Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:30:26 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment143197932 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment143175821 After reading “Flip the script for a moment”, I have to admit that there are actually-existing invisible strings which have shaped our ways of actions and responses towards different social issues. I have to accept the conception that people whoever inside a certain society, should have been restricted in a special kind of behaviors and habits in daily life. There are lots of copies accompanied with wide-ranged progressing so that the whole society is moving forward all the time. In my opinion, looking inside the ways of humans’ thoughts and actions, is supposed to be a complex and unexpected way which can not be obtained by general people who have no extraordinary capability of empathy. Referring to empathy, it is no wonder an uncommon ability which is full of skills to step out of own shoes and stand on others’ points with constant reconsidering the world. If a majority of people have possessed the way to manipulate “empathy” correctly, there is no wonder that less bias, wars, conflicts appearing in the world. What’s more, the imbalanced definitions of different races and genders should have disappeared already. However, the reality isn’t as perfect and well-behaved as we expect. The long-lasting shortage of equitable judgment and definition towards different social phenomena are really difficult and complicated to delete within a small amount of time even inside a tiny range of location. That’s why human beings are struggling the unique ways which are acceptable within individuals themselves but not suitable for the entire society out because they have to compromise to the wholly social rules as long as they want to step further. Apparently, individuals are really weak so that they have no tremendous and effective influences to change anything about their own behaviors. According to this incapability, society is acting out in its own way which is though based on the summary of individuals’ behaviors but it turns out more like a group-thinking which should obey and perfect the upper-classes’ benefits. That’s how the huge and diverse society has been working so well- just on the basis of the decisions and sole selfishness from a small class of politicians and riches who have totally unimaginable great powers to control almost the ways of social actions. Just considering the races without matters with gender differences, it seems ridiculous to punish any unequal former perspectives because different races built up with different cultures and wealth really have own styles and even have accepted their own social levels and divisions positively. That is to say, looking back for a really long-gone history, race bias has been defined as a natural solution to social classes divisions and people all over the world are potentially willing maybe actually they have to accept the way it is. It is the same way how gender difference works. Invisible strings establish the background of the society which has a large and wide influential impedes for the equal conception to last forever. Regarding people as fish, the society as the water we have to choose to live in, none of us can leave it for a long time though we can flee and escape the environment and regulate own styles for a while; we should confirm that we have to find out a way to come back even if we have discovered what is wrong inside the society or what should be done in eager needs. Only own to the natural fundamental rule that fishes have to live in water, we are the last and un-easiest ones to realize the conditions or stay awaken for a periods. That’s the mysterious sociology, we should try to think like a sociologist though it is kinds of confusions resulting from lots of hidden surprises whatever bad or good. Never doubt the way, it is just what is should be acted. Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:07:20 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment143175821 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment143175138 After reading “Flip the script for a moment”, I have to admit that there are actually-existing invisible strings which have shaped our ways of actions and responses towards different social issues. I have to accept the conception that people whoever inside a certain society, should have been restricted in a special kind of behaviors and habits in daily life. There are lots of copies accompanied with wide-ranged progressing so that the whole society is moving forward all the time. In my opinion, looking inside the ways of humans’ thoughts and actions, is supposed to be a complex and unexpected way which can not be obtained by general people who have no extraordinary capability of empathy. Referring to empathy, it is no wonder an uncommon ability which is full of skills to step out of own shoes and stand on others’ points with constant reconsidering the world. If a majority of people have possessed the way to manipulate “empathy” correctly, there is no wonder that less bias, wars, conflicts appearing in the world. What’s more, the imbalanced definitions of different races and genders should have disappeared already. However, the reality isn’t as perfect and well-behaved as we expect. The long-lasting shortage of equitable judgment and definition towards different social phenomena are really difficult and complicated to delete within a small amount of time even inside a tiny range of location. That’s why human beings are struggling the unique ways which are acceptable within individuals themselves but not suitable for the entire society out because they have to compromise to the wholly social rules as long as they want to step further. Apparently, individuals are really weak so that they have no tremendous and effective influences to change anything about their own behaviors. According to this incapability, society is acting out in its own way which is though based on the summary of individuals’ behaviors but it turns out more like a group-thinking which should obey and perfect the upper-classes’ benefits. That’s how the huge and diverse society has been working so well- just on the basis of the decisions and sole selfishness from a small class of politicians and riches who have totally unimaginable great powers to control almost the ways of social actions. Just considering the races without matters with gender differences, it seems ridiculous to punish any unequal former perspectives because different races built up with different cultures and wealth really have own styles and even have accepted their own social levels and divisions positively. That is to say, looking back for a really long-gone history, race bias has been defined as a natural solution to social classes divisions and people all over the world are potentially willing maybe actually they have to accept the way it is. It is the same way how gender difference works. Invisible strings establish the background of the society which has a large and wide influential impedes for the equal conception to last forever. Regarding people as fish, the society as the water we have to choose to live in, none of us can leave it for a long time though we can flee and escape the environment and regulate own styles for a while; we should confirm that we have to find out a way to come back even if we have discovered what is wrong inside the society or what should be done in eager needs. Only own to the natural fundamental rule that fishes have to live in water, we are the last and un-easiest ones to realize the conditions or stay awaken for a periods. That’s the mysterious sociology, we should try to think like a sociologist though it is kinds of confusions resulting from lots of hidden surprises whatever bad or good. Never doubt the way, it is just what is should be acted. Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:04:10 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment143175138 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment143174844 After reading “Flip the script for a moment”, I have to admit that there are actually-existing invisible strings which have shaped our ways of actions and responses towards different social issues. I have to accept the conception that people whoever inside a certain society, should have been restricted in a special kind of behaviors and habits in daily life. There are lots of copies accompanied with wide-ranged progressing so that the whole society is moving forward all the time. In my opinion, looking inside the ways of humans’ thoughts and actions, is supposed to be a complex and unexpected way which can not be obtained by general people who have no extraordinary capability of empathy. Referring to empathy, it is no wonder an uncommon ability which is full of skills to step out of own shoes and stand on others’ points with constant reconsidering the world. If a majority of people have possessed the way to manipulate “empathy” correctly, there is no wonder that less bias, wars, conflicts appearing in the world. What’s more, the imbalanced definitions of different races and genders should have disappeared already. However, the reality isn’t as perfect and well-behaved as we expect. The long-lasting shortage of equitable judgment and definition towards different social phenomena are really difficult and complicated to delete within a small amount of time even inside a tiny range of location. That’s why human beings are struggling the unique ways which are acceptable within individuals themselves but not suitable for the entire society out because they have to compromise to the wholly social rules as long as they want to step further. Apparently, individuals are really weak so that they have no tremendous and effective influences to change anything about their own behaviors. According to this incapability, society is acting out in its own way which is though based on the summary of individuals’ behaviors but it turns out more like a group-thinking which should obey and perfect the upper-classes’ benefits. That’s how the huge and diverse society has been working so well- just on the basis of the decisions and sole selfishness from a small class of politicians and riches who have totally unimaginable great powers to control almost the ways of social actions. Just considering the races without matters with gender differences, it seems ridiculous to punish any unequal former perspectives because different races built up with different cultures and wealth really have own styles and even have accepted their own social levels and divisions positively. That is to say, looking back for a really long-gone history, race bias has been defined as a natural solution to social classes divisions and people all over the world are potentially willing maybe actually they have to accept the way it is. It is the same way how gender difference works. Invisible strings establish the background of the society which has a large and wide influential impedes for the equal conception to last forever. Regarding people as fish, the society as the water we have to choose to live in, none of us can leave it for a long time though we can flee and escape the environment and regulate own styles for a while; we should confirm that we have to find out a way to come back even if we have discovered what is wrong inside the society or what should be done in eager needs. Only own to the natural fundamental rule that fishes have to live in water, we are the last and un-easiest ones to realize the conditions or stay awaken for a periods. That’s the mysterious sociology, we should try to think like a sociologist though it is kinds of confusions resulting from lots of hidden surprises whatever bad or good. Never doubt the way, it is just what is should be acted. Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:02:50 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment143174844 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment143174755 After reading “Flip the script for a moment”, I have to admit that there are actually-existing invisible strings which have shaped our ways of actions and responses towards different social issues. I have to accept the conception that people whoever inside a certain society, should have been restricted in a special kind of behaviors and habits in daily life. There are lots of copies accompanied with wide-ranged progressing so that the whole society is moving forward all the time. In my opinion, looking inside the ways of humans’ thoughts and actions, is supposed to be a complex and unexpected way which can not be obtained by general people who have no extraordinary capability of empathy. Referring to empathy, it is no wonder an uncommon ability which is full of skills to step out of own shoes and stand on others’ points with constant reconsidering the world. If a majority of people have possessed the way to manipulate “empathy” correctly, there is no wonder that less bias, wars, conflicts appearing in the world. What’s more, the imbalanced definitions of different races and genders should have disappeared already. However, the reality isn’t as perfect and well-behaved as we expect. The long-lasting shortage of equitable judgment and definition towards different social phenomena are really difficult and complicated to delete within a small amount of time even inside a tiny range of location. That’s why human beings are struggling the unique ways which are acceptable within individuals themselves but not suitable for the entire society out because they have to compromise to the wholly social rules as long as they want to step further. Apparently, individuals are really weak so that they have no tremendous and effective influences to change anything about their own behaviors. According to this incapability, society is acting out in its own way which is though based on the summary of individuals’ behaviors but it turns out more like a group-thinking which should obey and perfect the upper-classes’ benefits. That’s how the huge and diverse society has been working so well- just on the basis of the decisions and sole selfishness from a small class of politicians and riches who have totally unimaginable great powers to control almost the ways of social actions. Just considering the races without matters with gender differences, it seems ridiculous to punish any unequal former perspectives because different races built up with different cultures and wealth really have own styles and even have accepted their own social levels and divisions positively. That is to say, looking back for a really long-gone history, race bias has been defined as a natural solution to social classes divisions and people all over the world are potentially willing maybe actually they have to accept the way it is. It is the same way how gender difference works. Invisible strings establish the background of the society which has a large and wide influential impedes for the equal conception to last forever. Regarding people as fish, the society as the water we have to choose to live in, none of us can leave it for a long time though we can flee and escape the environment and regulate own styles for a while; we should confirm that we have to find out a way to come back even if we have discovered what is wrong inside the society or what should be done in eager needs. Only own to the natural fundamental rule that fishes have to live in water, we are the last and un-easiest ones to realize the conditions or stay awaken for a periods. That’s the mysterious sociology, we should try to think like a sociologist though it is kinds of confusions resulting from lots of hidden surprises whatever bad or good. Never doubt the way, it is just what is should be acted. Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:02:23 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment143174755 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2010/03/26/flip-the-script-for-a-moment/#IDComment143174377 After reading “Flip the script for a moment”, I have to admit that there are actually-existing invisible strings which have shaped our ways of actions and responses towards different social issues. I have to accept the conception that people whoever inside a certain society, should have been restricted in a special kind of behaviors and habits in daily life. There are lots of copies accompanied with wide-ranged progressing so that the whole society is moving forward all the time. In my opinion, looking inside the ways of humans’ thoughts and actions, is supposed to be a complex and unexpected way which can not be obtained by general people who have no extraordinary capability of empathy. Referring to empathy, it is no wonder an uncommon ability which is full of skills to step out of own shoes and stand on others’ points with constant reconsidering the world. If a majority of people have possessed the way to manipulate “empathy” correctly, there is no wonder that less bias, wars, conflicts appearing in the world. What’s more, the imbalanced definitions of different races and genders should have disappeared already. However, the reality isn’t as perfect and well-behaved as we expect. The long-lasting shortage of equitable judgment and definition towards different social phenomena are really difficult and complicated to delete within a small amount of time even inside a tiny range of location. That’s why human beings are struggling the unique ways which are acceptable within individuals themselves but not suitable for the entire society out because they have to compromise to the wholly social rules as long as they want to step further. Apparently, individuals are really weak so that they have no tremendous and effective influences to change anything about their own behaviors. According to this incapability, society is acting out in its own way which is though based on the summary of individuals’ behaviors but it turns out more like a group-thinking which should obey and perfect the upper-classes’ benefits. That’s how the huge and diverse society has been working so well- just on the basis of the decisions and sole selfishness from a small class of politicians and riches who have totally unimaginable great powers to control almost the ways of social actions. Just considering the races without matters with gender differences, it seems ridiculous to punish any unequal former perspectives because different races built up with different cultures and wealth really have own styles and even have accepted their own social levels and divisions positively. That is to say, looking back for a really long-gone history, race bias has been defined as a natural solution to social classes divisions and people all over the world are potentially willing maybe actually they have to accept the way it is. It is the same way how gender difference works. Invisible strings establish the background of the society which has a large and wide influential impedes for the equal conception to last forever. Regarding people as fish, the society as the water we have to choose to live in, none of us can leave it for a long time though we can flee and escape the environment and regulate own styles for a while; we should confirm that we have to find out a way to come back even if we have discovered what is wrong inside the society or what should be done in eager needs. Only own to the natural fundamental rule that fishes have to live in water, we are the last and un-easiest ones to realize the conditions or stay awaken for a periods. That’s the mysterious sociology, we should try to think like a sociologist though it is kinds of confusions resulting from lots of hidden surprises whatever bad or good. Never doubt the way, it is just what is should be acted. Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:00:31 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2010/03/26/flip-the-script-for-a-moment/#IDComment143174377 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment140667573 It is really a shock for me to recognize how successful a man is like inside this lifer’s heart. To be honest, I have never met any male in realistic world who have possessed a majority of these significant high qualities even without imaging they can perform a protector, a friend, a lover and a totally open-up guy. To me, it is really precious if there is a guy with a perfect understanding of females’ thoughts, a tremendous respect for females’ well-beings, and a regrettable realization of what he did wrong in early ages. There is no wonder that males have already judged themselves as a priority to females and they have been used to treating females as if they are just something general belonging to themselves. There is a specific tendency for the society to recognize that videos and movies prefer to show women in a way as if they are happy to accept the rude treatments from males with sexual offends and money attractions. As a result, nothing has been set up in people’s minds but a conception that females are best representatives of sex and money. In other words, females are in a ridiculous level which is no more than these two ugly nouns. As a lifer, being in prison for so long a period, with a beautiful acknowledge of what a true man should be like, this man has exceeded common males in the society with advanced respects and protects for females. That is to say, they have considered females whom he loves quite much as his treasure with fulfilling loving and protections. He even regards himself as their closest friends. trying his best to satisfy their needs and curiosities, struggling to find out a way to be the most considerable and suitable Mr. Right to be around. It is supposed to be a man with extreme ethusiasticism to try his best to treat his baby as own whole world. There is no doubt that it is so beautiful and enjoyable for a female to have someones like this to take care of herself in around circumstance because either males or females are defining their potential sites and levels in society. It is just a trend in which people are judging themselves in clear classes with differentiable situations inside the society. Not only males but also females have been used to making judgements with predictions as if females are inferior to males no matter how much harder or longer work they have spent time in. It is just a pre-constructed conception about the views towards two diverse genders. However, it is apparent that this lifer has conveyed himself in a really rare way with so much considerations for females and regard females priore to himself as if he is living to make sure the girl is happy. Successfully, the lifer has got to a position where only few people can achieve so that he has obtained the outstanding knowledges about how to be a right man for a woman and what is the key to be a true man who can bring all kinds of wellbeing to a woman’s entire life. No one can deny to be a 100% perfect man is tremendously hard and even only getting to half of it can also be a tough way. According to the lifer’s basic requirements to be a wonderful man, it is sure that completing all kinds of bases and establishing all the requests with focusing on one girl is unavoidably in great need for a space to premium constructions of self-confidences and self-definitions. In sum. it is really a way available for us to imagine a ideal prince like the lifer appearing in our common life and make it extraordinarily glorious. Neverthless, I quite accept the idea that only being a long time in the dark prison and locked in a small space can stimulating a great imagination for oneself to set up a better attitude towards whatever he has regretted for a long time in premier life. Thu, 7 Apr 2011 07:10:46 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment140667573 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment139204264 (continue with another paragraph) Take my hometown as an example. It is one of the richest cities in China which is full of business. There is a prevalent saying that “ Wenzhouness is the Jewish of China”, which means we have made the first steps to force China into the industry world by creating business from nothing. Our whole city is decorated with our citizens money without any support from the central institutions. Because of our fortitude fundamental wealthy business, we have made it a habit to vote for our city leaders by ourselves without any control from outside the city. We always vote freely to some extent because everyone has a right to give his ideal leader a ticket, but there are invisible strings controlling our decisions and change the free way into somehow predicted functions in which people can make correct assumption of who would be the leader in the future really easily. Apparently, this kind of unexpected phenomenon is specifically resulted from the unbalanced divisions of wealth throughout the country. It is a natural tendency for people whatever classes they are in to vote the richer ones to be the tops. In their believes beyond self-consciousness, people who have possessed more money should be given more rights in making big decisions related to the cities’ future developments only because they have contributed more than others to making our city a better living place. There is no wonder that people have potential self-concentration to benefit themselves by ordering the society in the way which is great in their own perspectives. Obviously, everyone wants to run the system in own favors without too much concerns for other people from weaker classes, especially the top wealthy groups. It seems like more rich people are, more likely they will choose to ignore the easily-neglected poor groups and they just take themselves in a count for a whole society constitution. Standing out of the circumstance where we are used to be, it’s not difficult for all of us to figure out the unbalanced way of voting and elections is really harmful to the further developments of the society. Though nobody has doubts about this stupid format. no one prefers to stand out to reverse it even the poors, because it is highly regarded as a sociological force which has regulated the society in the way just it should be. Fri, 1 Apr 2011 21:41:50 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment139204264 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment139204131 Referring to what Sam said in class about how the power system is running in present society, I really have many self-experiences own to my small hometown where people vote for their leaders in an extreme informal way. It’s what I have been confused about for a long time since I was in my childhood, but now, after reading this small article and some specific data with help from Sam’s expression, I found it more attainable for me to understand how the system is actually activated like today’s behaviors. As far as I am concerned, if our society is not developed highly enough, there should be some unfair division of the total wealth in the whole society in order to keep it in a peaceful and balanced running. In other words, though many poor people have suffered a lot under this inequitable system and other riches have gained a great many benefits from other below-classes, it is the direct and unavoidable way to establish a better society with higher-level of fairness in the future. That is to say, only undergoing the path in which arounding-society is separated into several distinct parts with different amounts of total wealth can a country or a city become more and more sophisticated in the managements and voting process. As a result, what is the foundation of the future success for a society to delete the potential classes’ differences even if it is only a certain slight inequality, is that the society should have experienced more than enough failures in appropriately making wealthy classes. According to my opinion so far, setting up a society with absolute balance in wealth for any individual to gain totally the same amount of incomes seems like a really really big deal which requestes both the high quality of the sociological perspectives from the governments and sufficient suitable definitions of belonging classes from individuals themselves. If this unimaginable perfect society order has come true one day, this glorious society must have already overcome many former ridiculous challenges and found the most harmonic way for itself to enlarge its size and quality. Fri, 1 Apr 2011 21:40:58 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment139204131 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment137325711 After watching this short video which introduces a feedback about how to rate women appropriately in different sizes and styles, I have contradictory opinions towards what the girl said that no matter the body-build or skin color women have, they are all beautiful proportionally in special sights. When pointing out a topic associated with women, people naturally become sensitive about the shapes and the sizes of women or how this woman totally look like. It’s so strange for people to focus on women’s outside appearances a lot, even women themselves always engage in talking about the beauties and uglies without control. Though the society has struggled to reverse the tendency which puts a lot of strengths on the importance of women’s body shapes and facial appearance, the struggling to balance the automatic values solely based on physical outsides towards beauties and uglies is still extremely hard. Although everyone knows that the deep and considerable knowledges inside hearts, kindness and patience hidden in minds are much more essential than unique and outstanding outlookings, people judge women just on the basic of their shapes, sizes and facial features at first sight. They own the this incorrect way of defining a woman to human beings’ inherent pursuit to be more beautiful. Sociologically, the innocent desire for enjoying beauties have firmly established the way of grading different women in exact marks out of full ten. It’s difficult and complicated to be a woman in this unique society which is filled with abundant bias towards uglies, though it is widely accepted as an unfair method. However, people just act strictly in this way without self-consciousness so that it is really a big deal for individuals to distort this harmful perspective. If we try to define what is it to be a women without mentioning anything related to body images, it’s complex to portray women’s fundamentally being as lives. Is it necessary for women to gain a large amount of advanced knowledges and take part in high-level education in specializations? Is it vital for women only to stay at home and keep doing housework and babysitting without persuiting any self-aims? Absolutely not, women can be either the tops of the academic performances or the designers of glorious families, so there is no significant constrictions of women’s developments. What’s more, women have potentially stronger relational emotions than men. In other words, women are significantly more considerable, tremendously more patient and sufficiently more responsible than men. According to nowadays’ statements about gender differences, men are taking the rational and logical roles in society while women are acting more emotional and subjective. Apparently, being a woman is equal to a heavy awkward work- expect for trying to be extraordinary in outside appearances, being rich in inside contents takes another huge percentage to succeed. As a result, it’s not effective and supportable to judge women at first sense wholly according to the explicit facial and body aspects. The fundamental further investigation of women’s inside worlds should be taken into account, because it really embodies the most accurate and precise image of individuals’ qualities of social behaviors. Nevertheless, there is a obvious and hard-neglected truth hindering people make suitable judgements and definition of women which has been lasting for a long period from far-ahead human histories. It is just the sociology is, with the rough sketch of humanity and the moisture outline of the combination of psychology and biology. There is a true forever voice for women to regain the impartial balance which is no matter with how large sizes and shapes they are, they still can reach out to the highest points of women group. Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:42:53 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment137325711 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment135912379 After reading the easy “Who am I?” from a lifer long in prison, it seems simple for me to spy into their definition of the personal race in his deep heart. It shocks me a lot for a lifer who has spent a long-period of life in prison to be pretty confident to confirm who he is. With a glory self-value and a strong self-assertiveness, the lifer has become more and more fortitude in mind and stably specific in self-cognition. As far as I concerned, it’s blurry and complicated for normal people living regular lives in society to show own affirmation with positive attitudes towards inside weak fears, delicate disappointments and selfish desires which are deeply hidden inside hearts. However, the lifer, in this essay, indeed emphasize a lot with straightforwards force that he is in brown skin and originally American born with a certain race; he has a kind heart which is fully-filled with tremendous soft sympathy and moisture compassion; he is strong minded because he has switched his passions derived from forever-lasting life in jail to an enjoyment of learning and practicing to be a real man in the world in such a tough and educational circumstance; he even sustains that he has a normal heart or even more humanized than common people who have never engaged in prison; he absolutely has diverse emotions and souls with sensitive inflection which are constituted of craving dreams, hardfisted ambitions, unexpected fears, brave joys, remarkable accomplishments and destructive defeats. As we can obviously see, the lifer is totally both a “son-of-man” and a “man-of-the-world” with an perfectly integrated and extremely authentic personality which turns out to be a distinct combination of shortages and superiorities. What’s more, the lifer even has admitted himself as not just the person in the above description- these particularly appropriate self-realizations are far insufficient to convey the whole being of himself. Apparently, own to some mysterious cases happening in his early age, he has committed himself as a man of all over the world- he could be a man brought up in Spic, Wetback, Beanery, Guala-guala or even New Yorican, though he has never been to these places in reality. With a certificate bore in America, he can not deny he has a special role in social performance and a specific division to working specialization. It is generally accepted that individuals do have fixed appearance to join the world with a widely “spread-out” phenomenon and none of us has innocent abilities to distort what we are actually in order to meet personal desires or requirements. Nevertheless, the lifer here powerfully demonstrate that we can be different races in different moments which is just based on the society’s acquaintances. In other word, all the strict and serious limitations and bounds formerly established inside people’s conceptions are really of no necessity for the reason that these kinds of statements are constructed on the foundation of the perspectives of humanity but not the sociology. According to how the lifer is further socialized in the prison, he has reset his own perceptions towards the whole world and human beings and compromised to the immense space of the actually small 4-walls room with dark color and gloomy atmosphere. It is the prison that has transformed his mind to acknowledge himself as a spic in the bright legacy which is uniquely far away from what he previously consider himself as agrrieved, sinless and should not have been takin into a jail. As a result, the prison really has an outstanding capacity to reform the roots of lifers’ ideas which appears to be a large amount of benefits for lifers to regain kind-hearts. Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:20:10 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-x-intense-debate/#IDComment135912379 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/24/fear/#IDComment134754005 He has influenced by the environment around him which has already successfully set up a conception in his mind that he is a crime and there is no way for anyone to put him as a normal person with pregnant qualities. All the things left for his following keep-going prison life are his extra hardworking to be a common person, to strive for a stable position paralleling with other non-crimes. As a result, he shows most of his daily fears as what he cares about his social being and personal grades of daily behaviors: he fears about not being accepted by certain people, depending on other people, showing weakness for people to exploit, not accomplishing the goals he set for himself, being lonely, letting people down, the things he should say but don’t, the secrets he holds, future struggles I will have to face, not succeeding, not handling situations the correct way, not having things go my way. It surprised me a lot that the lifer in the prison has more strict and high-level restrictions and requirements for himself than common humans which is really distinct from what I view the lifers before. In my previous opinion, lifers are people with ridiculous world and life sights with no willpowers and life goals. What's the most terrible characteristic of them is that they have given up themselves and accept what they are with pleasure and exposure to be like "nothing to care or worry about". After reading this article, I find myself run my viewpoints in an opposite way. This lifer, no matter whether he is a typical representative of all the lifers in the prison, he is a man with strong mind and willing to accomplish his high demanding goals and just the man who has exceed common people in a decent way though we still define him as a prisoner. Why the lifer can gain these kinds of fears and show the delicate reality of his gentle, docile positive and aggressive heart? Here comes a firm social rule which appropriately explain the reason of this mysterious phenomenon that people make daily decisions depending on their subconscious fears automatically. Own to great many fears the lifer has possessed, he has overestimated the amount of do's and don'ts he should obey; he has despise his social situation and he even has pushed himself to worry too much about some unnecessary things. Actually, we, common people, even though we are not living in the limited space or having lots of prohibitions about daily life, we are inclined to socialize ourselves as in trouble more times than the reality and produce more fears than necessities by ourselves. 
 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:14:36 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/24/fear/#IDComment134754005 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/24/fear/#IDComment134753942 There is no wonder that anyone in the world has a large amount of fears which are in subconscious. In other words, what we actually fear in our daily life are out of our expectation and rational control. This article "Fear" is talking about fears from a lifer in prison, who is supposed to have extra numbers of psychological fears than the normal people who live in a peaceful and regular life while he lives in a specific dark narrow space with no confirmation about following life. It seems natural for him to fear whether he can open his eyes lively to reach the real world next day before he is nervously falling asleep because he is the man in the prison with no sure about being alive. It seems like each of his fears which is about his pass-by murders or crimes even if they only have a really loose relation should be necessary. It turns out to be a reality that normal humans in the society judge their past as the root of his connected fears which means there is a responsibility for him to fear facing the real situation of himself, to fear never having a normal life, to fear turning out someone he actually might not like to be. What's more, according to common people's mind, he is requested to fear what he has done by law because it is a legal for him to feel regrettable but illegal for him to hurt others for personal ugly purpose. On the other hand, lifer also has some fears which enlighten the shadowed kindness and moisture in his deep hearts. For example, he will fear missing the good time he should have been with his family and not have enough time to spend with his family any more; he will fear the way his loved ones look at him; he will fear for the health safety of all his loved ones; he will fear his family will never realize who he is on the daily basis. All the above fears are related to family motions which uncover the softest conner inside his heart which are considered to be wholly killed up because of his cruel, but the reality turns out extremely opposite. The longer time he has been staying in the prison, the more fear he will get about losing the basic connection with families so that he will cherish the chance to get closer to his own family. At this point, fears are apparently from the shortage of our social life. If you have lost something, you have a difficulty to achieve what you want, you are going to lose what is functionally usual in your life, you are deprived what you have already been used to, you will gain more fears which are all tightly based on the things you are struggling to gain, the things you have unexpectedly lost, the things you define as the precious wealth in your life. As we can see that the lifer who lives in the dark depressive narrow prison are regarding himself in a lower level compared to normal people, he will show the motivation to gain others' respect, to cover their shortage, to appear as perfect as possible to others, to design unattainable goals for him own, to avoid himself from giving up but continue to act as excellent as he can. Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:14:07 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/24/fear/#IDComment134753942 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/21/rethinking-education/#IDComment130698835 (continue)This kind of negative motivation, although has led to some students’ incentive to try their best to get a great GPA in school years in order to future triumph, has ridiculously cut down the possibility of the prosperity of education system just by the decreasing slope of students’ interests and creativity. It seems like we have more specialization, investments and equipment donated to the present education, why does it behave in such an oppositely rough way which is far away from our prediction? As far as I am concerned, too much emphasis on grades by shutting children’s senses of f and force them to deaden themselves to what is happening in an anesthetic way. Since children are alive, they have own anesthetic emotion which they enjoy before. After strong compelling them to obey the give in to many artificial and irrational education system, no wonder they will become dull and tired of schooling. Of course, the most terrible relationship between how important of the GPA is and how bored children get in school. The graph of these two variables turns out in an upwards explosive curve which is in dead needs to be controlled and finally kept in a normal point. What the present education system should do most urgently is to wake children up to recognize what inside themselves and how to deserve themselves. The central requirement to achieve the above goal is to figure out how to use the GPA, how to mix the economic and cultural roles in education without the possibility of beyond control or even destroying what we primarily want to accelerate. We should pick up with the ideas about divergent thinking system, which is one of the inherent abilities of human beings. Though the present reality is that children’s capacities in thinking divergently has been lower and lower as the age becoming larger and larger, which is own to the principle that they must and have attended schools, we should set it as a great measurement to determine the difference between genius and general people. What is the most important for us to regulate is that we should emphasize more creation and personal acknowledge rather than GPA and academic tests which maybe not so clearly aimed at what children should get and what they actually need. That’s all my reflections of the movie and Friday’s class about mysterious education system. Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:31:49 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/21/rethinking-education/#IDComment130698835 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/21/rethinking-education/#IDComment130698794 •As is known to us all, countries around the world all have built up public education systems which are closely related to Economics and Cultural. Education turns out to be a tool to socialize students to get used to the fast- growing and dramatic-changing worlds of economics as well as pick up a role in present economy institution. On the other hand, education also has great effects on our intercultural personal values which identify our cultural self-cognitive and help us join in the globalization efficiently. The primary goals are really valuable in speeding up children’s growth and are highly focusing on the process of being more and more mature. However, phenomenon becomes in an opposite way which illustrates the myth of our education system because it works out not so correctly as our primary assumptions. Present Schools work awkward in how to use GPA as a useful foundation to evaluate children’s behavior and disappointedly lead students to a doubt of the grads because they don’t believe the rule which acted pretty appropriately formerly. If you work hard, you can get greater GPA and then get great future career. Most of them have significantly lost a majority of confidence and approval towards the power of GPA and they simply don’t consider GPA as a big deal to determine the win or the loss of their future. This kind of conjecture and distrust are produced by the conundrum of the nowadays education because how great of the GPA is effected by what kind of school you are in (private or public). This unique recent upcoming determinant is tightly related to the economic expansion so that the universities are becoming representatives of prosperous business. Except for losing reliance to the GPA’s function, another reality which attracts our tension is that the risk of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) for children in present school has been increasing continuously and tremendously without stop and limitation. In my view, this awful tendency of ADHD can be the most suitable evidence to punish that quick and obvious progress in technology and economy has been mixed with the school education too much and result in a bad distraction. In other words, computers, i-phones and many other fascinating advertisements which are not available in the past and considered as symbols of our developments of society are the murderer to kill children’s inborn interests to school and make them feel hard to focus on those “boring stuff” going on in class. What’s worse, the society has showed a behavior called “medical fashion” to emphasize the necessity of going to college, determine stably what way to think and behave, structure the rules and systems as just what they are. As a result, children are steered to engage in study in present schools without personal choices and individual preference, while they should just follow the previously planned ways and ignore what they want actually. Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:31:29 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/21/rethinking-education/#IDComment130698794 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/04/the-not-so-invisible-structure-that-shapes-us/#IDComment128929902 (continue)According to the article, I want to emphasize more about the shortage of this automatic tourism system and awareness. Perhaps it seems ridiculous for nowadays Americans to worry about whether they will descend into an inferior position in the global diplomacy or what are valuable and precious things to learn from other countries to benefit USA itself, but the world in Americans’ perspective are really not the same as the actual one. Americans have obviously ignored the fast development and consistent flourishing in other countries but maintained an ugly and perishing appearance like what they are used to be in the past. It is their unconscious self-judgments on other countries that reduce their opportunities traveling aboard which has roughly limit and narrow their vision of the whole globe. On the other hand, the farther USA has exceeded other countries the more difficult to reverse the whole country’s attitudes towards traveling aboard because the structure of society itself has huge and inevitable power in shaping people’s mind of looking at other countries with a super stance. However, the behavior of the society itself is connectively comprised of individuals’ responses to the change of the world but with a slower speed compared to the change of the world itself. As far as I concerned, the rapid development all over the world is occurring all the time and even is speeding up with a considerable accelerate will finally reform the way of Americans’ travelling. It still need time and the society itself will turn out to be a demonstrator to this statement. That’s how society works, people are just characters inside this river without choice of whether to follow the main stream over. Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:25:05 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/04/the-not-so-invisible-structure-that-shapes-us/#IDComment128929902 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/04/the-not-so-invisible-structure-that-shapes-us/#IDComment128929548 As is known to us all, USA is a large country with the significant prosperities in business, culture, technology and many other places which are all defined as the measurements of the developing-value of a country. As an international student, I am quite aware of another name of America-“ melt pot”- which symbolizes that there are people from different country with different culture in different ritual living in this big land. Because of the sufficient availability of getting familiar with other culture inside the USA, the possibility of travelling aboard in order to enjoy rich cultural and geographic diversity decreases sensitively. Apparently, Americans will not have much extreme desires to travel aboard as people from other countries since they can gain diverse sceneries and satisfy personal wonders just by frequent small trips inside the states. This is the world which the USA has turned out to be and it is just a phenomenon there which all American residents have got used to and have no doubt about its correctness and valuableness but just obey this stable structure to do what they have been shaped to do in a long period. Significantly, according to the society style Americans have possessed, there is an invisible tendency for Americans to enlarge their self-satisfaction about that places where they can have a unique sight and people who they can improve intercultural communication are really abundant so there is no necessity for them to struggle to further enrichments. However, caused by the potential power behind this visible shallow appearance, all the Americans have ignored the reality of what they have known about other country just by avoiding first-hand experience of travelling aboard. It’s easy to understand that only truly travelling across the Great Wall in China step by step can people know the prevalent saying –“You will become a true man only if you stand on the top of the Great Wall.” Although people in USA have seen a large amount of photos about the Great Wall, even if there are models which are highly similar to the true one in appearance, though Americans may also have heard about the saying above from one of their Chinese friend, they don’t have the ability to express what they think about the Great Wall, what they have gained inside their heart after seeing a model in the museum. In another word, Americans can never have capacity in moving either super-grand and successful constructions or supernatural and scarce landscapes from all over the world into USA. Nonetheless, Americans have become too lazy to reshape their ideas towards travelling aboard since the society structure and cognition has a strong agreement on travelling inside country instead of going a board. Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:23:51 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/04/the-not-so-invisible-structure-that-shapes-us/#IDComment128929548