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The next time you are browsing magazines in a shop, a look at pop psychology department and see what kind of stories on their front page. You will notice a pattern monotonous titles that everyone on the hard disk (ie your) wealth or focus seems accurate, as you can "feel" to your well. Typical products are as follows entitled "Know yourself, you are" really happy to feel "attractive" or "strengthen your self-confidence and so on.

It's really all that interested people read? I am the only one, as shameless self-indulgent of our culture seems to be like? When judging magazines, it seems like we obsessed with our desire to feel good about themselves.

You could say "what that?" But aside from the obvious implications of selfishness neurotic, there is another problem. All this seems at the expense of our interest in the understanding of our environment. These journals are not self-help magazines. His journals of psychology. Psychology is a fascinating area of science, extremely important and ubiquitous in our daily lives. There are many aspects of psychology that you would expect from a psychology magazine, even if intended for the masses, would be filled with a wealth of information of job excellence.

So I am not saying that we presented to others' needs or the needs of society need us. I do not claim that our natural desire to leave a good feeling. But I think we lack a wealth of knowledge that can be more satisfying for all self-help advice.

The "Hey Hey" skit

It has been the topic for my clients all day - no matter who they are or why they see me. Over and over I've been asked what I thought of the embarrassing "Hey Hey" moment. No easy or simple answer from me on this one! There is so many principles involved.

Firstly, it was of course stupidly insensitive. It was of course racist and just plain dumb. But as most people have pointed out, we australians do not have the same history of "black face" singers. We see it just as an impression, not as a cultural statement. We haven't had years of struggle against that particular stereo type. We are racist in that we aren't aware of the implications.

We also are much better at being irreverent than other groups of people. Give us a sacred cow and we love to have a go at it. An important national characteristic.

Thirdly, Australians should not have to conform to American sensitivities - God knows they have no cultural sensitivity of their own. They plunder the world with out care about the cultures they stand on. But we would be very offended if an american show had a skit with white americans dressed up as Aboriginal Australians, complete with paint and a stupid dance. We need to think about how that would feel and how insensed we would be.

There endeth opinion

 
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