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dehumanization is the third psychological process underlying the metamorphosis of the common man into a murderous beast. And 'the mechanism through which they develop the irrational feelings of racism, sexism and discrimination. Why do these feelings arise, however, need to be properly stirred up, and often, the fuel of those drives is not (or not only) content in the human psyche, but it is instilled from the outside, more or less wanted to by the imposition of a particular language.
In psychology and sociology, framing is defined rhetorical framing of questions or information received. As it performs this framing? I will give you an example. Imagine that you share in a lottery, and that you have, say, 40% chance of winning. Note that, from a point of view, logical-mathematical, say that you have forty percent chance to win is equivalent to saying that there are sixty percent chance to lose . E 'was observed, and is quite well without going into too much guess the theme that we are more tempted to play the lottery if we are told, "Play, you have 40% chance of winning!" rather than "play, you have 60% chance of losing." This is, in essence, framing : induction, based on a linguistic policy, the selection of certain interpretations which corresponds to the exclusion of other interpretations.
Accepting a language is implicitly denied to some interpretations of the phenomena that are not inherent in that language. And the passivity with which you absorb words, idioms and expressions is or may be the basis of dehumanization. A typical example of dehumanization and sadly anchored to the newspaper is the terse language and bipartisan newspapers and television stations in dealing with phenomena such as crime and immigration. We have already mentioned some Weather: journalists tend to describe foreigners characterizing them in their articles and their services, using one ethnicity, national or religious identity. Generally this does not happen with the Italians, who are usually described according to their age, their social status or their profession. It 's so that, by opening the newspaper, we read headlines like "' Let me be that baby 'Hunt for three Roma" and other amenities, which we mentioned in the past.
If a person is recognized only on the basis of a single feature, albeit in good faith, it stigmatizes automatically. That person is no longer a person but a number. And "sin" committed by that individual, they can not be confined to the individual himself, is transferred by means of this stigma, is distributed to all those that can only be identified based on the same stigma. The essence of dehumanization is precisely this: deprive human beings of the characteristics that make human , implied that variegation typical of the individual who thinks, acts, lives, experiences feelings, to reduce it to a number, or a ' ethnicity. This is absurd, especially when the language that underpins some misunderstanding, it is passively accepted by all social partners.
Sure, you can not summarize the essence of a person in a few columns of a news item. Even when we speak of an Italian student of 24 years, to a certain extent, it is stigmatized, it is dehumanizing. But it is certainly less dehumanizing to talk about people rather than immigrants. If Luciano Izzo, a 24 year old Italian student, amateur blogger, committed a burglary or a robbery, ok, we know it was him. It's not that we wake up tomorrow morning and instinctively fear and revulsion we feel for all students twenty-four-blogger, or for those whose family name is Izzo. But if we say that a generic "Neapolitan" committed a crime, that's all the Neapolitans are not criminals. The hidden message is as follows: is a criminal because he is a Neapolitan Neapolitan and therefore is a crime. It 's so that the framing and implementation, through it, it works in you fear, that incites your reason and makes you maneuverable. Who can hide, where you can escape, in fact, if the threat of generics are Neapolitans, the anonymous blacks, Muslims or insidious? How can you defend yourself? By voting the Northern League?
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