Bias
Posted on | September 11, 2009 | No Comments
Bias is always present.
If you don’t think so you don’t understand what bias really is. Your viewpoint changes what you see, your political affiliation, your ideological backbone, your 3rd grade english teacher. You are but a sum of your parts. Whenever you view anything you view it through the lens of that time, and who you were at that time. A second after you have finished watching, participating or ignoring an occurance you are a different person from the experiance, or lack thereof.
There are entire schools of thought within anthropology which get caught up in the bias. They would rather tell you a story about how they felt while visiting a culture than attempt to impose their world view onto what lies in front of them. Thats all well and good but one’s belly button gets a bit boring after about 30 seconds.
In news media, in blog reading, in photo’s bias exists. It doesn’t always change drastically what is being shown, but it does effect it. Rather than rail against what will always be, people would do better just looking past the bias, understanding that its there, no matter what, and moving on.
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