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The Water Cooler Title: Empathy and Our Nation's Future A recent University of Michigan study is a call to action for those seeking the latter. Researchers found that college students today are about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts from the 1980s and 1990s. Present-day students are less interested in the perspectives of friends and are less concerned for the unfortunate. Empathy is the ability to recognize, appreciate and respond to the feelings of other people. It is a fundamental building block of a healthy society. Empathy helps us understand our differences and our common ground. It enables us to go beyond the superficial to identify shared interests and accomplish collective goals. In an increasingly heterogeneous society, empathy is essential for cooperation and social cohesion and the pursuit of our nation's highest ideals, including fairness, justice and equality. The Michigan study joins a growing body of research that has found Americans growing more individualistic and isolated. Other studies have documented intensifying narcissism among college students since the late 1980s. Our society is becoming more disconnected and lonely, Jacqueline Olds and Richard S. Schwartz, Harvard psychiatrists concluded in their book "The Lonely American."
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 4. Empathy is the ability to recognize, appreciate and respond to the feelings of other people. It is a fundamental building block of a healthy society. Empathy helps us understand our differences and our common ground. It enables us to go beyond the superficial to identify shared interests and accomplish collective goals. In an increasingly heterogeneous society, empathy is essential for cooperation and social cohesion and the pursuit of our nation's highest ideals, including fairness, justice and equality. Empathy is more than that. It's the ability to read minds and project ideas. And nothing is more powerful.
#3. To: All (#2) Empathy is more than that. Ex: You can tell the GoM is a continuing epic fail by the reports that are streaming out and the Imperial City's determined ignorance of same. Same with Iraq/Afghanistan.
#4. To: All (#3) As America heads to the polls in November, let’s hope we don’t get fooled again. We’ve had an elegant sufficiency of “Big Lies,” now what we need are real citizen leaders who are willing to tell us the simple truth about all of these unsustainable programs. the above a post from happyquanza. Note the Total misdirection: That gov't is not really aiding and abetting the Kleptocracy of Finance/Military. That you have a choice, and you are not a serf. AgitProp.
Replies to Comment # 4. Title: Moochie 0bama to meet with Indian whores Source: Economic Times URL Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com ... -plans/articleshow/6797379.cms Published: Oct 24, 2010 Author: Economic Times Post Date: 2010-10-24 08:24:51 by Happy Quanzaa Keywords: wookie, sasquatch, bigfoot, hookers, whores Views: 7 Again: A Total Misdirection from HQ. The reality is that the US is desperate to counter balance the BRIC, mainly China, by seating India at the UN Security Council.
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