Author: Caroline Bach
Barcelona & me
I think I would like to spend a year in Barcelona, just to get a feeling for it and see if it’s the right city for me. Right now it seems to offer everything that I look for in a city. A culturally packed place with beautiful architecture & really nice restaurants. Happy, fun-loving, relaxed people, shopping, sunny weather, great nightlife, amazing artist venues to explore.. and a beach! What’s more to ask for? Well.. a job?
I got the feeling that Barca is like a mini version of Rio de Janeiro. And remember when I said that I would gladly move to Rio if they just spoke spanish? Well, in Barca I could happily practice my beloved spanish. So.. why not? Well, I guess the current economic situation in Spain isn’t very intiving, I could imagine living there for a while to learn more spanish and maybe work somewhere, but a well-paid “real” job in Barca? Nah..
But who knows. Money might mean freedom and let me move around the world whenever I want to, but if I need to stay here to make it I don’t know if it’s worth it.. this place seriously has autumn all year around.
Aah.. come on now Sweden, give me some sun!
Do it today
DISTORTIOON!
Copenhagen <3
Välkomna!
Notte Sento
thesis time
Hummus
identity & prejudice
The most dramatic effects of social categorization have been demonstrated using the minimal intergroup paradigm pioneered by Tajfel and his co workers. Here participants are simply informed that they have been divided into groups, often on a relatively arbitrary basis. These groups are truly minimal, involving no group activity or contact between members. Yet when these participants are asked to evaluate anonymous ingroup and outgroup members or apportion rewards between them, they do so in a biased and discriminatory fashion, favoring ingroup over outgroup members.
Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, p560
Nothing most of you didn’t know already, but still. I think it’s good reminding oneself of how instinctively full of prejudices we all are. That awareness might actually make us better people.. And as Voltaire said, Prejudice is the reason of fools.