#CollectiveIdentity

[recsspecs]

And that brings us back to the Chinese mother. Not only can people see events in these two different ways – they also see themselves differently. I can see me as a central, single ego, controlling my destiny and my environment. Or I can see me as a sort of node in a network – as a me which exists in a context, not independently of it. When Westerners think about their selves and their mothers, there is no overlap in the parts of the brain they use, but for the Chinese, their individual self is physically embedded in their brains’ representation of their mothers. The Chinese self, then, is part of a greater whole, not a clear and distinct entity: this is a collectivist psychology. Neurologically speaking, a collectivist view of the self is probably a more accurate picture than the Western individual notion. While in the West, thanks to St Bernard and his followers, we have come to give the self an almost religious significance and value, in Buddhist and Confucian thinking the self is rather a transient and changing phenomenon – in some respects it is an illusion. At the very least, ‘I’ do not exist outside of the network of relationships that I have with other people and if I had been brought up as a feral child with no contact with other people I would probably not have much of a ‘self’: ‘I’ exist in the reflections of the minds of the people, particularly of those who raised me.

The Winner Effect: The Neuroscience of Success and Failure

[biglisbonnews]

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[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

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"Im straight" "Im gay" well I mixed your DNA with an alicorn when I was making it so you might notice some side effects. Like a lazer forehead.

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[b01conference]

About Color Compton

Color Compton is “An organization geared towards working with the youth to build community relationships among people of color while exploring identity, and creating art. Grounded on history, students will be introduced to concepts and history to engage in dialogue and use art mediums to develop their own narratives through collective engagement. All students will be able to gain leadership skills and play a critical role in community activism”

They hope to "aim to empower all students in the Compton community by sharing the histories of people of color and introducing art as a form of communication"

Community Partners include: GirlSpace International, Compton G.IRLS Club , and The Variety Group.

Please give a warm welcome to Abigail Lopez-Byrd, founder and executive director of Color Compton. Abigail is a Compton native and her vision was to cultivate a creative space for Compton youth and community to have a space where they could have conversations about art, history, identity and community. She herself recalls her first experience with the arts (photography) in high school and how that allowed her to look at life through an artistic lense. She recalls having to qualify for this extracurricular class and how they would meet after school, making it inaccessible for all students. With Color Compton, Abigail hopes to expose youth to the power of communication and knowledge through art. Alongside unlocking a creative outlet which allows youth to explore their self identity and how they see themselves in and apart of a collective community.

Like many of the organizations we have today, Color Compton has shifted to accommodate on a remote platform due to COVID-19. Color Compton and their sister organizations have moved to host conferences online as well as limited in person events. For example, Paint Night & Wine Tasting was hosted over the summer. Tickets were limited at an outside venue for social distancing and masks were required. Color Compton has been working to adapt to the social distancing while still providing for its community. Color Compton has also partnered with their sister organizations to raise funds for families who have been affected by the global pandemic. Community is one of the organizations pillars, so it was especially important for them to show up for their community and provide mutual aid to alleviate some financial burden many people are having to face. Color Compton is also providing limited access to office space to provide to the community because they recognize that one of the challenges brought by the global pandemic is people not having a quiet space to do their work.

For more information, click on the link to learn more about Color Compton and if you feel inclined to, follow the support tab at the top to make a donation.

[hemanchong]

This is a photograph taken by #TanPinPin @pinpincam in 2007 during a press walk thru of #WE, an exhibition curated by #AhmadMashadi and I in #2007. It shows me making things up as I go along, Ahmad being completely terrified because he knows I'm just making things up and #AdelineChia (who was writing for #TheStraitsTimes then) taking notes. 2007 is such a long time ago. Date: 28 July – 4 November 2007, #NUSMuseum @nusmuseum WE - an everyday term. Its familiarity and #ubiquitous use in the #dailycontext belies its #complexity. As constructions of #community or #nation, what constitutes the ‘we’? How does it come to be? #Placemaking, references to memory, history and iconography form part of the processes of identity formation. How is this determined and where are the fault lines? Through the works and projects by contemporary Singaporean practitioners – including #AngSongMing, #MichaelLee and #FrancisNg, Tan Pin Pin and #MingWong - WE invites us to consider the production and reproduction of #collectiveidentities and its related discourses such as place, culture and nation. Curated by #HemanChong and Ahmad Mashadi. (at NUS Museum)

[maggie-s-c-blog]

Firstly, labour unions are organizations intended to represent collective identities and interests of workers in negotiations with employers over common job concepts like wages, hours and working conditions. The image below explores some for the collective identities of workers, or reasons why they would form a union:

Moving on, we all know that everything has positives and negatives and I would like to discuss a little bit about Unions. In the past, employees working conditions were quite harsh; working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, no holidays, no pay raises, that is if you wanted to continue with the job. However, the power of unions changed all these factors and through the use of labour unions - along with a reasonable system of regulations - workers were able to have a voice. On the other hand, unions may not always understand the business side which is needed to be known to create a levelled playing field between employees and managers. 

Personally, although I do not work yet, I still believe that labour unions should be allowed in society as they give a chance for workers to express their ideas and perspectives of personal matters like wages or hours off. After some further research into this topic I found some details about a proposed labour code that changes some of the health and safety laws.

The proposed legislation would change the health and safety laws that govern the right of workers to refuse unsafe work. Labour unions are particularly concerned with the one of the specific changes. It would give the minister of labour the power to determine (without investigation) whether refusal of work is trivial, senseless or vexatious. This finding could mean an employee is disciplined or even fired. Under the current legislation, if an employee and employer disagree on whether something is safe or not, an investigation by a health and safety officer is required. 

Labour unions support the idea of collective identities, addressing common issues with employees and employers by utilizing collective bargaining; a process of how negotiations of conditions of employment can be conducted. Throughout history, these collective identity groups have brought about change. When talking about employment we refer to the collective social identity that a group shares when interacting with individuals of society. The mutual reinforcement between identity and goals helps to explain the transformative power that collective identity had produced. Without it, our workers may not have a chance to express their thoughts and our community may return to one who does not support the voice of workers and their values. 

Take a look at this image below too!

Refer to the link above for more details and specifics! 

[madeofcrystal]

Collective Identity

[recsspecs]

Morris and Peng wanted to compare how the English-speaking, non-Chinese reporters covered the two murders, in comparison with the Chinese-background, Chinese-language reporters. What they discovered showed a fundamental difference in their interpretation of events. The English-speaking journalists were much more likely to focus on McIlvane’s personality, his mental instability and his short fuse, while the Chinese reporters focused much more on the context, such as the fact that he had recently been fired, that the postal supervisor may have been harassing him and that he may have been influenced by a recent mass shooting in Texas. The two sets of reporters showed the same sort of difference in approach to their coverage of the Chinese student’s mass killing spree.

The Winner Effect: The Neuroscience of Success and Failure