> On Aug 2, 9:52 am, Robert Cohen msn.com> wrote:
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>> Okay, first I acknowledge y'all (most of ye here probably)  are of
>> different generations than ole
>> RobtCohen.

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>> So, given that  semi-qualification up front, a 64 year ole alta cocker
>> is allowed to ponticate ad nauseam, which can be fun & also less than
>> fun

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>> I just listened to that prank call: Jewish girl tells parents she's
>> dating an Italian, and the radio personality plays the boyfriend: The
>> parents swallow the bait including the fishing rod & tackle box

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>> Needless to say

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>> It's more than a "shanda to the goyim" >> non Jews>

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>> It's a Phillip Roth scene without the  author

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>> Who needs an intellectual's truths & clever humor when ya got this
>> here taboo breaking internet ?

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>> Me & Ye, that's who

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>> I'll defensively first acknowledge that "Archie Buinker's" creator,
>> Norman Lear,  says Arch is (also) about his own Father:

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>> Lear knows better than to merely stereotype for the cheap laugh,
>> though that what ALL IN THE FAMILY sometimes feels like

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>> That's what one-deminsion commercial media have done too damne much of
>> in history

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>> Exception

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>> Shakespeare's MERCHANT is  much more complex than a villainous
>> predatory lender, as the author constructs & dramatizes the central
>> character Shylock

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>> People are folks, and we are them, or at least that's from where
>> "polititically correct" & introspective n.g. types come from

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>> Thus, expected afterward You Tube comments are that "Jews are racist."

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>> Well, no shite: Jews are people too. Gee whiz. It's a shanda.

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>> If that shocker is news to ....uh....a virgin minds, then the prank
>> call has f'ed-up a naive mind

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>> The NAZI admirer & wannabe makes his bread n butter cases portraying
>> Jewish people as less than human, devilish, unethical, hypocritical,
>> greedy, impure, conspiratorial ....and thus implicitly deservedly
>> damned to gas chambers & hell.

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>> Such is reality, and I try to deal with such as best I can.

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>> Somebody with a brain attacks Adam Sandler as perfidious, and
>> RobtCohen jumps into the duh-bait like it's cancer that needs
>> treatment

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>> One can't win against racially tinged stream of conscious obssessions-
>> confessions

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>> One can sometimes try

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> As you probably know there has been some mixing already, and there is
> probbly a "rate" of mixing, however small. Have you checked genetic
> histories to find out what that rate is now and in the past? How much
> mixing would be allowable before you became aroused by it? If there
> has always been some mixing that wasn't detectable, would that disturb
> the mother in the prank call? How much of this is learned tradition?
> Do different races care more or less about mixing? How have traditions
> influenced the idea of mixing.
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> In the Social Identity Theory, a person has not one, “personal self”,
> but rather several selves that correspond to widening circles of group
> membership. Different social contexts may trigger an individual to
> think, feel and act on basis of his personal, family or national
> “level of self”. Apart from the “level of self”, an individual has
> multiple “social identities”. Social identity is the individual’s self-
> concept derived from perceived membership of social groups. In other
> words, it is an individual-based perception of what defines the “us”
> associated with any internalized group membership. This can be
> distinguished from the notion of personal identity which refers to
> self-knowledge that derives from the individual’s unique attributes.
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> Social Identity Theory asserts that group membership creates ingroup/
> self-categorization and enhancement in ways that favor the in-group at
> the expense of the out-group. ...the mere act of individuals
> categorizing themselves as group members was sufficient to lead them
> to display ingroup favoritism. After being categorized of a group
> membership, individuals seek to achieve positive self-esteem by
> positively differentiating their ingroup from a comparison outgroup on
> some valued dimension. This quest for positive distinctiveness means
> that people’s sense of who they are is defined in terms of ‘we’ rather
> than ‘I’.
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> ...three variables whose contribution to the emergence of ingroup
> favoritism is particularly important.
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> A) the extent to which individuals identify with an ingroup to
> internalize that group membership as an aspect of their self-concept.
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> B) the extent to which the prevailing context provides ground for
> comparison between groups.
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> C) the perceived relevance of the comparison group, which itself will
> be shaped by the relative and absolute status of the ingroup.
> Individuals are likely to display favoritism when an ingroup is
> central to their self-definition and a given comparison is meaningful
> or the outcome is contestable.
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> http://www.tcw.utwente.nl/theorieenoverzicht/Theory%%20clusters/Interp...
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> http://www.learnpsychology.net/g/421
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> Social identity is a theory formed by Henri Tajfel and John Turner[1]
> to understand the psychological basis of intergroup discrimination. It
> is composed of four elements:
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> -Categorization: We often put others (and ourselves) into categories.
> Labeling someone a Muslim, a Turk, a Gimp or a soccer player are ways
> of saying other things about these people.
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> -Identification: We also associate with certain groups (our ingroups),
> which serves to bolster our self-esteem.
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> -Comparison: We compare our groups with other groups, seeing a
> favorable bias toward the group to which we belong.
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> -Psychological Distinctiveness: We desire our identity to be both
> distinct from and positively compared with other groups[2].
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> As developed by Tajfel, social identity theory is a diffuse but
> interrelated group of social psychological theories concerned with
> when and why individuals identify with, and behave as part of, social
> groups, adopting shared attitudes to outsiders. It is also concerned
> with what difference it makes when encounters between individuals are
> perceived as encounters between group members. Social identity theory
> is thus concerned both with the psychological and sociological aspects
> of group behaviour.
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