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First-gen in the eyes of me

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 He is a first-gen, that explains it.  Are you a first-gen?  Two statements (a statement and a question to be accurate 😂) you definitely heard if you studied in the US at some time. ---- Positioning yourself in a world so diverse and has a history like the US when you are a foreigner is such a complicated task. From the start of filling out an application where they ask about your race, Black, Hispanic ... etc?  Am I Black? Am I North African? Am I something else that is not listed?  The question of identity is obviously not an easy one but coming to the US makes it even harder. You lose your old context and you have to re-position everything again with respect to how they categorize it, and sometimes you simply don't fit anywhere.  The way I am approaching this right now is by defining myself as simply "not from here", so these categorizations and whatever implications that come with them do not apply to me. Having to identify as "someone of color" is a c...
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Warging as a way to bridge the representation gap

"The weirdest people in the world?" is a title of a paper written by Joseph Henrich and others highlighting the bias of Psychology as a science.  check this for ref: https://www.amazon.com/WEIRDest-People-World-Psychologically-Particularly-ebook/dp/B07RZFCPMD  Claims about universality among other nativist views dominated science for a long time and it can be traced back to a range of reasons one of which is a purely theoretical one. Nevertheless, we cannot ignore the cultural context of even those who make these theoretical judgments and implement studies.  The European domination of not only participation and collected data by which the experimental science is making its alleged progress but rather those who analyze it with all their biases and cultural content. Conversations about this weird-oriented literature are taking place in the lobbies of western psychology institutes (W*I*E*R*D refers to Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societie...
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Culture, systems of thoughts and degree of tolerance

 According to an article i was just reading, our thoughts never escapes the cage of culture we rose in and is mined by the social and psychological structure of it. The article proposes a comparison between the ancient Greeks and Chinese civilizations and how the characteristics of each civilization in terms of moral system, values , sense of individuality, and implicitly agreed upon merits can actually follow their way up to the upper frontal part of the brain shaping thoughts, even in an era of universality and the small village world. Greeks according to the article put a high value for power of the individual and the sense of personal agency to an extent never seen in other civilizations, something that reflects in the tradition of debate that is well known about the Greeks even for someone with shallow cultural knowledge like me. which probably fed curiosity within them and led them to advance or even discover sciences, but most importantly construct a causal models according ...
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Associations or rules

 I wrote once about how i hate these kind of systematic rules that aim to systemize logic, those like the proof by contradiction and similar rules. My mind always fails to grasp them and work with them despite them sound very intuitive and this is actually the problem with them, too intuitive to be systemized.  I always find myself standing in wonder when i see people going to workshops that teach logic and thinking using rules and steps, or even methodologies. I tried once to give it a chance to listen to them and attempted to adhere, and they just destroyed my intuition and completely disabled my mind that i couldn't even do the very easy metal tasks i used to do blindly before. I remember in my last year at high school, the chemistry teacher was trying to make it easy for students to solve the (Molariya = Molarity), so he collected all possible types of questions that could emerge from Molarity, and put them into rules, you just have to see what is given, what is not, maybe...
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