Posted on 01/26/2016 9:30:26 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Pregnant women in their first trimester, as it turns out, also exhibit more ethnocentric and xenophobic attitudes than those further along in their pregnancies. That's a trend researchers have found across studies and across borders: The more vulnerable we feel to disease, the more likely we are to want to build a proverbial wall (and make Mexico pay for it!). One early study by Schaller and others found that people who are more worried about getting sick are more likely to associate foreign groups with danger and have more hostile attitudes toward foreign-immigrant groups. In another experiment, Canadians who were shown images of infectious diseases were less likely to support immigrants from exotic-seeming countries, such as Mongolia, than were those who saw images of other types of threats, like car accidents.
The findings have held up across cultures. Over the course of several studies, Murray and Schaller have found that countries that suffered a greater prevalence of diseases like malaria and leprosy were also more likely to be collectivist and conformist, as measured by things like personality variation among the country's citizens and the number of left-handed people. (In some more traditional cultures, naturally left-handed kids are forced to train themselves to become right-handed.) The two researchers have also found that people in more disease-addled countries are less likely to be extroverted or open to new experiences. If people would just behave traditionally, act in unison, and eschew strangers, the behavioral immune system's thinking seems to be, maybe they wouldn’t catch diphtheria.
Could a subconscious fear of disease be part of what’s prompting Trump supporters to cheer his plan to ban Muslims and Mexicans?
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
According to Hollyweird and mainly advertisers every couple on tv now is some mixed ethnicity or race.
I never argue with a pregnant woman.
Translation: Atlantic sez: “Abort your kids and open wide your gates!”
Why on earth would anyone study something as ridiculous as this———and then draw an equally ridiculous conclusion from it?
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An easy paycheck.
And I thought "safe spaces" was now politically correct!
Well, duh. It’s instinct- survival of the species. You never mess with any female creature that’s pregnant. And EVERYTHING is a threat.
And we know where pregnancy comes from.
My Kinda Gal!!!
Reflective!
This used to be called by the gender-specific term “maternal instinct” and it was thought of as a generally good thing (any instinct can slip into overdrive, this one included).
Kinda sounds like a broad hint that way doesn’t it.
How silly the world gets without accepting the grace of God.
You mean White women don't prefer Black males?
Always engage your “bull Obama” filter when the MSM (always on the left side of the SAT Bell curve) uses the term “phobic”.
I know it does not mean what they thin’ it means.
‘A Fikri a Fanuz. Whaaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaa-uh-aaaa-aaaa-uh-aaaa... Fanuz. Fanuz. A Fikri a Fanuz....’
Makes perfect sense. It’s normal and natural.
I was too sick the first trimesters of my pregnancies to give a rip about xenophobia, or any other phobia for that matter.
Imagine that, not wanting to be exposed to disease.. and then being called something for it.
These people are the kind of crazy I don’t want to be exposed to either.
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